Description
LIFE Magazine – March 25, 1946 features actress and dancer Lucille Bremer on the cover and offers a vivid look at politics, entertainment, science and everyday life in the first full year after World War II.
Inside, LIFE reports on Soviet forces stripping industrial equipment from Manchuria and the increasingly complicated relationship between China and the Soviet Union. The issue also examines a resurgent France, profiles U.S. diplomat Spruille Braden and his confrontation with Argentine leader Juan Perón, and looks ahead to the atomic age with a photographic essay on Bikini Atoll, selected as a site for postwar atomic bomb testing.
Entertainment and culture receive equally strong coverage, including the Ziegfeld Follies of 1946, Broadway star Ray Bolger, American realist painter George Bellows, the modeling business, and New Orleans Mardi Gras. LIFE also explores the world’s largest X-ray installation and tells the story of an Italian war orphan adopted by a Texas GI.
Inside This Issue
- Lucille Bremer — actress and dancer featured on the cover
- Russia in Manchuria — Soviet removal of industrial equipment and growing tensions in China
- Spruille Braden and Juan Perón — U.S.–Argentina relations in the early postwar period
- Bikini Atoll — photographic essay on the future atomic bomb test site
- Ziegfeld Follies of 1946 — LIFE looks at the famous Broadway production
- Ray Bolger — featured in Three to Make Ready
- George Bellows — memorial exhibition honoring the American realist painter
- The Modeling Business — LIFE examines the growing professional modeling industry
- New Orleans Mardi Gras — LIFE visits one of America’s most famous celebrations
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 27 The Week’s Events: Russians Strip Manchurian Industry
Pg… 34 The Week’s Events: Editorial: Resurgent France
Pg… 35 The Week’s Events: Magician Attempts to Rouse Spirit of Clarence Darrow
Pg… 36 The Week’s Events: Michigan Glacier Runs Amok
Pg… 38 The Week’s Events: Monetary Conference Meets in Savannah
Pg… 40 The Week’s Events: Ray Milland Wins
Pg… 43 The Week’s Events: France’s New President is Political Unknown
Pg… 110 Article: The Modeling Industry, by Gilbert Millstein
Pg… 54 Close–Up: Spruille Braden, by John K. Jessup
Pg… 105 Photographic Essay: Bikini, Atom Bomb Atoll
Pg… 49 Animals: St. Bernard is Town Bum
Pg… 67 Theater: “Three To Make Ready”
Pg… 75 Art: George W. Bellows
Pg… 84 Science: Giant X–Ray
Pg… 88 Movies: “Ziegfeld Follies”
Pg… 93 Religion: Japanese Christian Relics
Pg… 99 Education: Johnny Camera
Pg… 123 Sports: Cougar Hunt
Pg… 129 Radio: Webster’s Cartoons Blast Radio
Pg… 4 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Train Inspector Does Miniatures
Pg… 19 Other Departments: LIFE’s Reports: Professor Backwards, by Robert Sellmer
Pg… 136 Other Departments: LIFE Goes to the Mardi Gras
Pg… 142 Other Departments: Miscellany: The Farmer Wants a Wife
