Wednesday, December 21, 2022

Monday, December 21, 1942. Lonely Wife.


Life magazine, which oddly came out on Mondays, issued a story with a famous cover story and photograph, that being one simply captioned "Lonely Wife".  The contents of the issue were as follows:

First U.S. raid on Italy 19

Manpower 27

Best Christmas present you can give the boys is economy 32

U.S. Negro troops are based in Liberia 36

Battle for Tunisia 38

Stimson's new offices, Pentagon building 83

Private Murphy teaches candidates at Fort Benning's officer school 86

Las Vegas gambling 91

Aftermath of war 97

Geopolitics 106

Joseph Jacobs Thorndike; 1913-. Versatile soda-pop gas puts out fires, inflates life rafts, opens bomb bays 51

War posters 54

In which we serve (the movie) 59

Motion picture reviews (Single works)

Lonely wife 71

Lurid career of a scientific system which a Briton invented, the Germans used, and Americans need to study 106

Life visits the Bowery 116

English comedienne mugs and sings 124

Swimming school 129

Lonely Wife, whom readers would learn was named Joan, was an article following just such a wife, who appeared on the cover looking pensive and in a pose that, while not risqué, would probably have caused some concern for married servicemen.  The article highlighted a recent book on the topic.  The article was surprisingly long, and concluded with a reassuring photograph of the wife kneeling before a votive stand in a (probably Catholic) church.

British forces crossed back into Burma from India and headed towards Akyab.

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