Description
Original LIFE Magazine — February 17 1947
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published February 17 1947 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: A water skier cutting across the wake in an action photograph.
Inside This Issue: LIFE captures the excitement and athletic skill of early recreational water skiing, along with the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from February 17 1947.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Water-skiing enthusiasts, boating and lake-life collectors, vintage-sports fans, action-photography admirers, 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… 23 The Week’s Events: lbn Saud Visits American Partners
Pg… 28 The Week’s Events: Editorial: Democracy
Pg… 29 The Week’s Events: Wounded Cop Shoots It Out with Thugs
Pg… 30 The Week’s Events: U. S. Army Conducts Arctic Operations
Pg… 34 The Week’s Events: Duce’s Old Flame is Convicted as a Spy
Pg… 36 The Week’s Events: U. S. Dumps 20,000,000 Bushels of Rotting Potatoes
Pg… 39 The Week’s Events: “Open The Door, Richard!”
Pg… 99 Article: Comintern Agent, by Hubert Kay
Pg… 47 Close–Up: Powel Crosley Jr., by Gerard Piel
Pg… 89 Photographic Essay: Peoples of New York, Photographs for LIFE by Leonard McCombe
Pg… 45 Industry: Propeller Shop
Pg… 74 Industry: Billboard Blimps
Pg… 56 Night Clubs: El Borracho
Pg… 65 Movie: “The Yearling”
Pg… 71 Modern Living: Blanket Fashions
Pg… 78 Art: Stuart Davis
Pg… 85 Sports: King of the Mile
Pg… 113 Education: College Cheating
Pg… 6 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: Champion Water Skier Shows Off Her Skill
Pg… 10 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 118 Other Departments: LIFE’s Party: Washington Crosses the Delaware?Again
Pg… 122 Other Departments: LIFE’s Miscellany
