Description
LIFE Magazine – October 28, 1946 features a classic One-Room School cover, showing a young student at his desk during an era when small rural schools were still a central part of American education. The image gives this issue strong nostalgic appeal, especially for collectors interested in schools, childhood, teaching, and everyday life in postwar America.
Inside, LIFE looks at the one-room schoolhouse tradition and familiar Dick and Jane readers, while also covering major national and international stories of the moment. The issue includes reporting on the executions of Nazi war criminals after the Nuremberg trials, Hollywood censorship, Broadway theater, Ukraine, Kansas prohibition politics, wedding fashion, wildlife, and changing American cities.
Inside This Issue
- One-Room School — A photographic look at rural American education
- Dick and Jane Readers — The schoolbooks familiar to generations of American children
- Nuremberg Executions — Coverage following the trials of leading Nazi war criminals
- Hollywood Censorship — The continuing debate over what could appear on American movie screens
- Ukraine — A look at Ukraine in the postwar Soviet world
- Broadway Theater — LIFE examines the changing American stage
- Kansas Prohibition Politics — The long-running battle between “wets” and “drys”
- Wedding Dresses — Unconventional postwar bridal fashions
- Autumn Wildlife — LIFE photography explores seasonal nature
- New York City — Ideas and plans for reshaping the growing metropolis
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 31 The Week’s Events: Wets Fight Drys in Kansas Election, Photographs for LIFE by Mark Kauffman
Pg… 36 The Week’s Events: Editorial: The Republicans
Pg… 37 The Week’s Events: Iraq’s King Licks Lollipop
Pg… 38 The Week’s Events: Navy Has Seagoing Jeep
Pg… 40 The Week’s Events: Nazis are Hanged
Pg… 44 The Week’s Events: U.S. Communist Boss is Exposed
Pg… 53 The Week’s Events: Hinky Dink Dies
Pg… 120 Article: The Ukraine, by John Fischer
Pg… 67 Close–Up: The Man Who Wants to Build New York Over, by Robert Sellmer
Pg… 109 Photographic Essay: Broadway Theater Goes Highbrow
Pg… 47 People: Embarrassing Moments at White House
Pg… 48 People: Jean Wallace Marries
Pg… 50 People: Baldwin and the Windsors
Pg… 59 Modern Living: Unconventional Wedding Dresses
Pg… 79 Movies: Movie Censorship
Pg… 86 Natural History: Autumn, by Maitland Edey
Pg… 87 Natural History: White–Footed Mouse
Pg… 91 Education: One–Room School
Pg… 97 Science: Liquid Heat
Pg… 137 Science: The Correct Time
Pg… 103 Art: Restored Art
Pg… 2 Other Departments: LIFE’s Reports: Great Books, by Milton Mayer
Pg… 14 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Lena the Hyena
Pg… 20 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 144 Other Departments: LIFE Goes to the Veiled Prophet’s Ball
Pg… 150 Other Departments: LIFE’s Miscellany: New Designs for Living
