Description
Original LIFE Magazine — January 18 1937
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published January 18 1937 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Henry Ford and his son Edsel Ford at the Ford River Rouge industrial complex in Dearborn, Michigan.
Inside This Issue: LIFE profiles Henry and Edsel Ford during a pivotal period in the American automobile industry, with coverage connected to Ford manufacturing, Detroit’s industrial power and the labor tensions surrounding the company, along with the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture and features from January 18 1937.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Ford enthusiasts, automobile-history collectors, Detroit-history readers, industrial-history enthusiasts, LIFE Magazine collectors and anyone seeking a meaningful gift connected to Henry Ford or American manufacturing.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 Speaking of Pictures: Who Killed Diamond King? Photocrime murder mystery story.
Pg… 9 Sit–down Strikes: Detroit faces 1st great strike as 89,000 U.A.W. union members use potent new tactic on General Motors
Pg… 16 A Munitions Ship Puts to Sea: Munitions ship Mar Cantabrico leaves for Spain after finding loophole in U.S. Neutrality Act
Pg… 18 Crime: Sidewalk prayers to NY Governor Lehman save 4 of 6 murderers of Brooklyn subway collector
Pg… 20 Senator With Charm: Henry Cabot Lodge takes his grandfather’s seat in the U.S. Senate
Pg… 21 Paramount Rest Hour: Dancing extras take a break during the filming of Champagne Waltz
Pg… 22 Perry v. Vines: Tennis fans jam Madison Square Garden to see Britain’s John Perry make his professional debut against American Ellsworth Vines
Pg… 24 Table Tennis: Newly–formed U.S. team competes at U.S. Table Tennis Association at Chicago Lake Shore Athletic Club
Pg… 26 Britain’s Noble Beauties: American attending London parties this Coronation year will see English peeresses such as Vicountess Bridport
Pg… 31 Ten Youngest Duchesses
Pg… 32 100 Hippopotami: 100 African hippos scared when Imperial Airways plane flew over
Pg… 34 200 Elephants: 200 African elephants scared when plane flew over piloted by British aviator Sir Alan Cobham
Pg… 36 Science in Atlantic City: Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Pg… 41 Radiometeorograph: U.S. Weather Bureau demonstrates weather–observing hydrogen balloon that goes up 20 miles into stratosphere
Pg… 46 The Spaniards: Spanish rebels bomb Madrid
Pg… 48 Diplomats’ Busiest Winter
Pg… 50 Movie of the Week: The Good Earth: The MGM story of Wang Lung starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer
Pg… 58 Private Lives: Includes Lily Langtry, Helen Love, babies Polson & Munk, Ross Alexander, Barbara Stanwyck & Robert Taylor
Pg… 61 LIFE Goes to a Party: Launching of a Widemar debutante in Philadelphia with the Stotesbury, Wanamaker, & Dorrance families
Pg… 66 Pictures to the Editors: Radio blues singer Martha Raye peeling an onion by M.U. Blumenthal
