SEE BELOW for MORE MAGAZINES' Exclusive, detailed, guaranteed content description!* With all the great features of the day, this makes a great birthday gift, or anniversary present! Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED. TITLE: LIFE magazine [Classic LIFE Magazine, with all the great photographs, features, writers, vintage advertisements and MORE -- See FULL contents below!] ISSUE DATE: August 2, 1948; Vol 25, No 5 CONDITION: LARGE magazine, Approx 10oe" X 13oe". COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) IN THIS ISSUE: [Use 'Control F' to search this page. MORE MAGAZINES' exclusive detailed content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date.] This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 LIFE'S COVER: The long-limbed runner On LIFE'S cover is called the world's fastest human by U.S. Olympic Track Coach Dean Cromwell. He is 6-foot, 145-pound MEL PATTON of California. How apt Cromwell's description is will be determined this week as Patton races against other fast humans of the world in the 100 and 200-meter dashes in the XIV Olympiad at London. Patton, married and the father of a 2-year-old daughter, is one of the mainstays of the U.S. team of 341 athletes who will compete in 17 different sports. For a look at some of the best U.S. bets and at some of the foreign favorites, see pages 41 to 45. THE WEEK'S EVENTS: AN INCIDENT IN MALAYA. Killing of Communist leader Lau Yew climaxes bloody guerrilla war. EDITORIAL: WESTERN UNI0N. BARKLEY TELLS BARKLEY. PRO-COMMUNISTS TAKE CONTROL OF THIRD PARTY. GENERALS MARCH AT John Joseph "Black Jack" PERSHING'S FUNERAL. PILGRIMS FROM LATVIA CROSS THE ATLANTIC. MOVIES LOSE THEIR GREAT PIONEER. D. W. Griffith, who made the first four reeler and "The Birth of a Nation", dies at 73. AN INDIAN PRINCE MARRIES MAHARAJA'S DAUGHTER. ARTICLE: REPORT ON KINSEY, by FRANCIS SILL WICKWARE. Indiana expert on the private llives of gall wasps and American men has stirred up the greatest biological commotion in the U. S. since Darwin. [Interesting, in-depth article, with FULL page photo of ALFRED KINSEY, plus other photos and illlustrations.] PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: THE ANDES, PHOTOGRAPHS FOR LIFE by DMITRI KESSEL. [MANY pages of COLOR photos, with article/text captions] PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: CHILD'S WORLD. SPORTS: ON TO LONDON. A handsome group of U. S. Athletes winds up training for the Olympics. [Many photos, incl full page photo of Ann Curtis in color in the pool!] DANCE: LIZZIE BORDEN. [Photos of the new ballet, plus photos of the Borden family, and drawings of the original trial] NATURE: THE SOCIAL ORDER OF HENS. MOVIES: CONVICTS SEE A MOVIE OF THEIR OWN ESCAPE. ART: DEGAS' MADEMOISELLE HORTENSE VALPINCON. OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LETTERS TO THE EDITORS. SPEAKING OF PICTURES: FIRST JAPANESE HISTORY OF AMERICA WAS ERRATIC. (Meriken Shinsi). LIFE GOES TO A COMPANY OUTING. FULL PAGE vintage ADS include: MOVIE AD: Rosalind Russell in "The Velvet Touch" (NICE, in color!) Cannon Percale Sheets; The Babe Ruth story, starring William Bendix, in an ad for Royal Crown Cola; MORE ______ Use 'Control F' to search this page. * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 Careful packaging, Fast shipping, and EVERYTHING is 100% GUARANTEED.