TITLE: LIFE magazine
[Classic LIFE Magazine, with all the great photographs, features, writers, vintage advertisements and MORE -- See FULL contents below!]
ISSUE DATE: January 8, 1945; Vol. 18, No. 2
CONDITION: LARGE magazine, Approx 10oe" X 13oe". COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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LIFE'S COVER: "CROCHET TOGS" -- The head covering worn by Leslie Venable is a hand-crocheted triangular scarf crossed in front and fastened with two crochet buttons. It is one of many Greta Plattry crochet items now being sold by fashionable stores throughout the country. For additional crochet. designs see pages 65 -- 66. Leslie Venable is a little (5 ft. 3 in.), soft-spoken model from Venable Station, Va. She is 24 years old and has been modeling two years.

[RARE and HISTORIC World War II, WWII WARTIME Edition!]

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:
Americans Battle the German Big Push, by Charles Christian Wertenbaker.
Editorial: 1945 on the Home Front.
Rome's Black Market.
Congressmen Inspect the War.
Tokyo Exposed by B-29 Air Views.
The Case of Carol Ann. Baby waits for Los Angeles court to decide if Charles Chaplin is her own.
The Acropolis Becomes a Fortress.
McCormick Weds.
Teachers College Celebrates Centennial.

ARTICLE: The Future of Liberated France, by Richard de Rochemont.

CLOSE-UP: FRANK FAY, by Maurice Zolotow. A mystical ex-vaudevillian teams with an invisible rabbit to make a big theatrical comeback in HARVEY on Broadway.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: MOVIE MAKING. It is a complex business of machines and technicians. Interesting article, on the set of THE DOUGHGIRLS.

ART: Ogden M. Pleissner Paints St. Lo Battle.

MODERN LIVING: Crochet Togs. An old and genteel art is used to make jaunty, stylish clothes.

SPORTS: Best Chesapeake Bay Retrievers.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors.
Speaking of Pictures: Soldier Cartoonist Kids War Correspondents. The cartoonist is Charles D. Pearson.
LIFE Goes to a Cotillion for 99 New York Debutantes.

LIFE'S PICTURES: Ogden M. Pleissner, who painted the pictures of the St. Lo breakthrough on pages 46 -- 52, is regarded as one of America's most skilled water-colorists as well as a fine artist in oils. A native New Yorker, he had won a considerable reputation as a painter of fishing scenes and of Western landscapes when LIFE commissioned him to record the crucial Normandy assault. He flew to England and back, spending three months there and in the Normandy sector at the front.


FULL PAGE vintage ADS include:
General Electric FM radio; Moss Hart's WINGED VICTORY from Darryl Zannuck and George Cokor; Capehart by Farnsworth; Paul Jones; Snider's Chili Sauce; NICE back cover ad for Coca-Cola -- PLUS MORE FULL PAGE, and MANY MORE smaller ads!

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