ISSUE DATE: November 25, 1940; Vol. 9, No. 22

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LIFE'S COVER: "WOLVERINE" -- Comparative newcomer among the many animals used to keep U. S. women warm is the wolverine, a carnivorous American mammal, a coat of which is shown on this week's cover. Although the wolverine's personal habits include thievishness and cunning, northern tribes prize its fur because the frost cannot cling to its long, glossy guard hairs. The coat on the cover, worn by Alice Eyland, costs about $200, is one of the many sturdy flattering furs now being used for inexpensive coats. For additional "budget" furs see pages 90 -- 91.

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

THE WEEK'S EVENTS:
LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World.
National Guardsman Off to Hawaii Bids Farewell to His Son.
Midwest Tempest Strews Death by Land and Lake.
Naval Reserve's Solo Babies Are Christened on Dunk Day.
The Army's Randolph Field Issues More Publicity Pictures, a glossary of words every flyer must know.

THE WAR AT SEA:
"Queen Elizabeth" Leaves New York. The World's biggest ship leaves New York to join the War at Sea.
German Sea Raider Catches Big Convoy. Painting by Jack Coggins.
Britain Rushes Freighters While Germany Makes U-Boats to sink them.
Crack Merchant Ships sunk by submarine and bomb in the war at sea.
Britain Vs Italy: British Fleet sweeps Mediterranian -- The Battle of Taranto.

ARTICLE: Natural Geography shows The Control of the Sea, by Major George Fielding Eliot. U. S. Ambassador Clears King Leopold of Belgium of "Treason" Charge, by John Cudahy.

ARTICLE: Friend of Belgians states King's Case, by Herbert Hoover. The True story of the Batle of Flanders ... First Authoritative Account of the Battle of Flanders.

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: The World-Traveling Thaws Go Overland from France to India. [see "Life's Pictures", below for description.]

MOVIES: "Tin Pan Alley". Old songs make Tin Pan Alley Tuneful. [Photos of Betty Grable, Alice Faye and others]

ASTRONOMY: Nebulae. Ghostly clouds in outer space are galaxies as vast as our own.

THEATER: "The Trojan Horse". Young actors form suburban colony to give Christopher Morely's play.

NATURAL HISTORY: Siamese Fighting Fish.

MODERN LIVING: Furriers Imitate Fine Furs in Cheaper Coats, Make Wolf and Muskrat look like Fox and Mink.

ANIMALS: New York's Horse Show Attracts Pan American Teams.

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors.
From LIFE's Correspondents.
Speaking of Pictures: Radio Publicity Gags. [Radio personalites, including Fred Allen, Fibber McGee, Colonel Snoopnagle, Burns & Allen, and others.] LIFE Goes to a "Family Is Away" Party, in Atlanta.
Pictures to the Editors.

LIFE'S PICTURES: On the job again in Hollywood, John W. Boyle looks back on as great a feast of picture-taking as any photographer has ever had spread before him. Photographic Director of the Thaw Asiatic expedition, he exposed some 400,000 ft. of color and black-and- white movie film in the course of a 20,000-mile land yacht trip from Paris overland to India (see pp. 67 -- 73). As subjects he had, among countless other things, a Bedouin desert feast, the exquisite mosaics of the Pearl Mosque, the palaces, treasures and silk-robed courts of nine Indian maha- rajas. His pictures not only make a series of gorgeous travelogs, they constitute a documentation of Oriental civilization that may never again be duplicated. They are already scheduled to become permanent possessions of the British Museum.



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