Description
LIFE Magazine – September 16, 1946 features West Point football stars Glenn Davis and Doc Blanchard on the cover, two of the most celebrated players in college-football history. Army’s powerhouse teams of the mid-1940s dominated the sport, and this issue captures West Point football at the height of that era. Inside, LIFE devotes a major sports feature to the Army team and its famous backfield.
The issue also reflects the unsettled postwar world of 1946. LIFE reports on Nazi leaders nearing the end of the Nuremberg trials, Soviet military preparedness, organized labor, and the newly chosen Miss America. A substantial feature investigates the mysterious German geopolitical theorist Karl Haushofer, while another looks at the rapidly changing American automobile industry as Studebaker’s assembly line produces its first postwar car.
Other major features include an Alfred Eisenstaedt photographic essay on the pearl industry, the film Sister Kenny, a North Carolina wild-horse roundup, theatrical designer and photographer Cecil Beaton, new developments in electric glass, and LIFE’s trail ride through the Canadian Rockies. Together, the issue combines major sports history with politics, industry, science, entertainment and classic LIFE photography.
Inside This Issue
- Glenn Davis & Doc Blanchard — LIFE’s major sports feature on Army football and West Point’s celebrated backfield stars.
- Army Football — a dedicated look at one of the dominant college-football programs of the 1940s.
- Nuremberg Trials — LIFE reports on Nazi leaders as the historic war-crimes proceedings approach their conclusion.
- Studebaker’s First Postwar Car — an industry feature on the automaker’s assembly line producing one of America’s first new postwar automobiles.
- Alfred Eisenstaedt: The Pearl King — a photographic essay by one of LIFE’s most famous photographers.
- Miss America — coverage of the new Miss America and a retrospective on 25 years of the pageant.
- Sister Kenny — movie coverage of the 1946 film about pioneering polio therapist Elizabeth Kenny.
- Karl Haushofer — “The Mystery of Haushofer,” examining the controversial German geopolitical thinker.
- Wild Horse Roundup — LIFE photographs an annual wild-horse roundup in North Carolina.
- Electric Glass — a science feature on electrically conductive glass and its potential applications.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 29 The Week’s Events: Russians Keep Fighting Fit
Pg… 36 The Week’s Events: Editorial: Teacher Troubles
Pg… 37 The Week’s Events: A.F.L. President Green Speaks to Empty Seats
Pg… 38 The Week’s Events: Model Airplane Meet is Uninhibited Air Show
Pg… 40 The Week’s Events: Nazi Leaders Sing Their Swan Song
Pg… 42 The Week’s Events: New Miss America is Chosen
Pg… 45 The Week’s Events: Distance Swimmers Resume
Pg… 46 The Week’s Events: Prince is Down to Last Castle
Pg… 48 The Week’s Events: Joy Rider Grieves
Pg… 106 Article: The Mystery of Haushofer, by Edmund A. Walsh, S.J.
Pg… 99 Photographic Essay: The Pearl King, Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt
Pg… 51 Sports: Army Football
Pg… 59 People: 25 Years of Miss America
Pg… 64 People: Miss America Disenchanted, by Oliver Jensen
Pg… 66 Industry: Studebaker Assembly Line Produces Fist Postwar Auto
Pg… 76 Movies: “Sister Kenny”
Pg… 87 Theater: Busy Beaton
Pg… 93 Animals: Annual Wild Horse Roundup is Held in North Carolina
Pg… 123 Art: Art in Scarves
Pg… 129 Science: Electric Glass
Pg… 2 Other Departments: LIFE’s Reports: U.S. Books Abroad, by Malcolm Cowley
Pg… 12 Other Departments: Speaking of Pictures: French Still Talk with Their Hands
Pg… 16 Other Departments: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 134 Other Departments: LIFE Goes on a Trail Ride in the Canadian Rockies
Pg… 140 Other Departments: LIFE’s Miscellany: Tempest Over Temple
