Description
Original LIFE Magazine — April 14 1947
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published April 14 1947 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Two women posed among flowering spring shrubs.
Inside This Issue: LIFE celebrates spring shrubbery and seasonal beauty, while also featuring Winston Churchill’s views on America’s new world policy, along with the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from April 14 1947.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Gardening and horticulture enthusiasts, spring-flower collectors, Winston Churchill and political-history readers, vintage-photography fans, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone looking for a meaningful birthday, anniversary, or historical gift from 1947.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 31 The Week’s Events: Spring Comes to Moscow, Photographs for LIFE by Thomas D. McAvoy
Pg… 40 The Week’s Events: Editorial: Money for Truth
Pg… 41 The Week’s Events: Injured Farmer’s Neighbors Plow His Land
Pg… 42 The Week’s Events: Oil Tanks Burn in Haifa
Pg… 43 The Week’s Events: Volcano Erupts in Iceland
Pg… 44 The Week’s Events: Lewis Rants but Miners’ Widows are Silent
Pg… 47 The Week’s Events: California Gas Stations Give Away Hundreds of Prizes
Pg… 106 Article: If I Were An American, by Winston Churchill
Pg… 59 Close–Up: Henry Morgan, by Robert Lewis Taylor
Pg… 97 Photographic Essay: Child Development
Pg… 53 Science: Gasoline from Coal
Pg… 68 Art: Old Charleston
Pg… 74 Sports: The “Double Twister”
Pg… 79 Movie: “Smash–Up” Susan Hayward
Pg… 86 Fashion: Whirling Dresses
Pg… 125 Theater: “John Loves Mary”
Pg… 7 Other Departments: LIFE’s Reports: U.S.S.R. People’s Court, by Craig Thompson
Pg… 14 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Safety Council Picks Accident Photos
Pg… 20 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 91 Other Departments: People
Pg… 131 Other Departments: LIFE Visits the Smith Brothers
Pg… 138 Other Departments: LIFE’s Miscellany: What Became of Jimmy?
