Description
LIFE Magazine – December 23, 1946 is a special Christmas-season issue featuring Fra Angelico’s “The Flight into Egypt” from The Life of Christ on the cover. The artwork gives the issue distinctive religious, artistic, and holiday appeal, while the magazine itself captures America and the world at the close of 1946.
Inside, LIFE presents a major illustrated feature on Fra Angelico’s paintings of the life of Christ, along with Christmas shopping in New York, United Nations optimism, a crackdown on fascists in Georgia, a new luxury liner, missionary work in China, medicine, and a centennial look at Town & Country. At 112 pages, it also contains extensive period advertising and seasonal imagery from the first postwar Christmas era.
Inside This Issue
- The Life of Christ — Fra Angelico’s religious paintings are featured in a major art presentation
- The Flight into Egypt — The Fra Angelico painting featured on the cover
- Christmas Rush in New York — Holiday shoppers crowd the city’s stores
- United Nations — LIFE reports on the U.N. ending its session in a spirit of optimism
- Georgia Fascists — Coverage of the state crackdown on the Columbians organization
- New Luxury Liner — A look at the S.S. Del Norte
- China Mission — LIFE examines Presbyterian missionary work in China
- 100 Years of Town & Country — A retrospective on the magazine’s first century
- Civilized Diseases — A medical feature examining modern illness
- The Night Before Christmas — LIFE’s photographic interpretation of the holiday classic
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 19 The Week’s Events: U. N. Winds Up in Spirit of Optimism
Pg… 24 The Week’s Events: Editorial: Christian Disunity
Pg… 25 The Week’s Events: Coed is Killed on Glacier
Pg… 26 The Week’s Events: Storm Sweeps Channel
Pg… 28 The Week’s Events: Georgia Carcks Down on Fascists
Pg… 30 The Week’s Events: Oxford Loses at Foot–the–Ball
Pg… 33 The Week’s Events: Christmas Shoppers Overrun New York Stores
Pg… 41 The Week’s Events: New York Feast Honors Great French Chef
Pg… 93 Article: “Every Man A Capitalist,” by John Chamberlain
Pg… 83 Photographic Essay: 100 Years of “Town & Country”
Pg… 43 Transportation: New Luxury Liner
Pg… 51 Art: “The Life Of Christ,” Scenes from the Paintings of Fra Angelico
Pg… 63 Modern Living: Leather Clothes
Pg… 69 Medicine: “Civilized” Diseases
Pg… 77 Religion: China Mission
Pg… 105 Theater: American Repertory’s “Henry VIII”
Pg… 7 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: “The Night Before Christmas”
Pg… 110 Other Departments: LIFE’s Party: Movie Sculptress Molds Snow Maid
