Pg… 19 The Week's Events: Mussolini Takes a Bad Licking in Africa

Pg… 26 The Week's Events: LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World

Pg… 27 The Week's Events: American Bombers Take off for Britain from Newfoundland Base

Pg… 28 The Week's Events: Hearst's Fabulous Art Goes at Bargain Prices

Pg… 30 The Week's Events: Lana Turner and Deanna Durbin Are Belles of President's Birthday Ball

Pg… 32 The Week's Events: Bombed London Railway Is Remade as Good as New in Four Hours

Pg… 42 The Week's Events: Socialite Fishermen Relax at Quarterdeck Club on Biscayne Bay

Pg… 56 The Week's Events: Inside Wartime Germany, Part II, by William L. Shirer

Pg… 72 Close–Up: Lord Halifax, by Carl Joachim Friedrich

Pg… 64 Photographic Essay: LIFE Shows How to Fire a 75–mm. Field Gun

Pg… 35 Science: Earthquakes: Earth's Crust & Ice Balls Break in Same Pattern

Pg… 40 Art: Spindletop: Great Texas Oil Gusher Is Painted for LIFE by Alexandre Hogue

Pg… 49 Education: Yenching Is No. 1 Christian University in China

Pg… 2 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 6 Other Departments: LIFE's Pictures: an Index

Pg… 8 Other Departments: LIFE's Reports

Pg… 12 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Book Match Covers

Pg… 86 Other Departments: LIFE Goes to a Hexing Party

Pg… 90 Other Departments: Pictures to the Editors