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Table of Contents – LIFE Magazine August 26 1940
Pg… 17 The Week’s Events: Battle of Britain Opens with Greatest Air Attack in History
Pg… 22 The Week’s Events: LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
Pg… 23 The Week’s Events: War’s Fifth Victoria Cross Goes to Widow and Baby of Corporal Killed in Flanders
Pg… 24 The Week’s Events: President Campaigns for Third Term Against Backdrop of National Defense
Pg… 26 The Week’s Events: Boy Scouts Sing “Ballad for Americans”
Pg… 27 The Week’s Events: Rita Hayworth Is Bedecked in Pearls to Aid War Relief
Pg… 28 The Week’s Events: U.S. Senate Debates Conscription
Pg… 30 The Week’s Events: Prince Mihai Passes Exams While King Carol Watches
Pg… 36 The Week’s Events: Rookies Demonstrate Technique of Landing a Flying Fortress
Pg… 39 The Week’s Events: Stork Club Debutantes Have Fun at Coney Island
Pg… 66 The Week’s Events: Rock of Gibraltar Is Set for a Siege
Pg… 68 The Week’s Events: The Fall of France
Pg… 55 Photographic Essay: Pensacola: U.S. Navy Trains World’s Best Pilots
Pg… 33 Science: Wistar Institute Breeds Possum as Super–Animal
Pg… 42 Movies: “Foreign Correspondent”
Pg… 46 Horticulture: Late Summer Wildflowers
Pg… 50 Sports: Surf Riding
Pg… 64 Modern Living: Paris–Weaned Designers Test Their Ingenuity in U.S.A.
Pg… 2 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 8 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Model Parodies Well–Known Poses
Pg… 76 Other Departments: LIFE Goes to Jasper Park in the Canadian Rockies
Pg… 14 Other Departments: LIFE’s Pictures: An Index
Pg… 80 Other Departments: Pictures to the Editors
