TITLE: LIFE magazine
[Classic LIFE Magazine, with all the great photographs, features, writers, vintage advertisements and MORE -- See FULL contents below!]
ISSUE DATE: August 30 1948; Vol 25 No 9
CONDITION: LARGE magazine, Approx 10oe" X 13oe". COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: Movie actress Colleen Townsend, Whose fresh young face appears on this week's cover, got into movies like many another California girl: by being on the right street corner when a sharp-eyed agent was looking for talent. It was a television agent, but the job he got her lead to work at the Warner's lot. She lost that job because at the age of 16 she was judged too old for juvenile roles and too young for adult ones. After she had spent a year in college in Utah, a 20th Century Fox scout gave her a contqract that made up for Warner's error in judgment. Collen is now studying to be a star.

SPEAKING OF PICTURES -- Here is fun with Otis Skinner.

THIS WEEK'S EVENTS:
Blitz at Belgrade -- the west loses a round and a river to Vishinsky and his Danubian bloc -- on the Danube.
Freedom to Move -- Russian schoolteacher, Czech atheletes and voyaging balts show the need for an open world.
Picture of the week: The prime minister of India takes a swing in Delhi Park -- Jawaharlal Nehru.
Thousands stand in rain for Babe Ruth's funeral -- many pictures.
Little Lost Reds -- two Solviet soldiers in U. S. zone meet some unexpected hospitality.
Polio epidemic -- North Carolinians battle disease and build hospital at same time.
Butter Fingered thieves -- infrared pictures nab them in an act of robbing Pasadena delicatessen.
Chemical Weeding -- it kills harmful plants without damaging grain.
Oxford has an all night spree -- dawn finds students and guests still enjoying their first postwar party.
Automatic Garage -- an imaginative New York realtor William Zeckendorf develops a mechanical car parker.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: GREAT SALT LAKE -- it is only a shriveled vestige of a prehistoric inland sea. Beach life. Industry. Salt Processors.

RADIO: Life begins at 80 -- New radio show employs panel of octogenarian pundits.
Mackenzie king's successor -- Louis St. Laurent.

ART: CARL MILLES models the dead. Famous scupltor shows his late friends in newest work.

NATURAL HISTORY: Sex life of the Gladiolus: Flower's reproduction is artfully contrived.

MOVIES: (COVER STORY) The big build-up -- Hollywood starts to turn a pretty girl from next door into a star -- COLLEEN TOWNSEND. Publicity campaign puts Colleen's face everywhere. Colleen build up begins to pay off. Darling, you're going places cries columnist Hedda Hopper.

ARTICLE: How we won the war and lost the peace by William C. Bullitt.
LIFE goes to a nature camp in Maine.

FULL PAGE vintage ADS include:
MOVIE ad: BEYOND GLORY starring Alan Ladd and Donna Reed.
TWO PAGE COLOR AD: CURTISS candy company farms, Baby Ruth, and the best dairy cattle; JIM FAIRBROTHER for CAMELS on back cover; MORE

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