Life Magazine, September 15, 1941 - Lord Mountbatten

Full page color Stetson hat ad for the Stetson Stratoliner, with airplane theme. Full page General Motors ad with GM railroad locomotive. Very interesting two page spread on the Harvest Moon Ball (dance) in Madison Square Garden, including Alyce Pearson and James Outlaw doing the Lindy Hop, Mae Miller and Walter Johnson also doing the Lindy Hop, and others. British Aircraft carrier Illustrious is heavily damaged, makes it to port, where she is bombed four more times in the next 2 weeks. Cute full page Lady Pepperell Sheets ad "Wish we knew which way to jump." Auto workers have fun strike as part of Detroit Labor Day parade. US Battleship North Carolina. Front and back views of all of the Miss America contestants of 1941, in swimsuits. Model family goes on exhibition at state fair, the Frank Engel family on display, Ohio's most typical farm family. Fall fashions on fifth avenue. Curtiss-Wright - biggest aviation company expands, great photos, some color. Very cute full page color Formfit bra ad. Martinique - photo essay. Doris Blake advises those unlucky in love. Gjon Mili photographs the curve balls of Cy Blanton and Carl Hubbell, baseball pitches. Conquest in Yugoslavia. Mammoth Cave, lots of good photos of old tourist tours. Good driving test.