The Press: New LIFE

The first English-language magazine created for a worldwide audience was on its way last week to and in 70-odd countries.* LIFE International, child of a wartime overseas military edition, began life with a circulation of more than 200,000. A fortnightly, each issue will combine the editorial content of the two latest issues of LIFE, omitting material which would be stale by time of delivery.

Vol. I No. 1ran to 72 pages, with 15 advertisers, took a look at the world through U.S. eyes, in English "and the universal language of pictures." For readers abroad, who think in terms of kilometers instead of...

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