TIME – 2/12/1940 - Eve Curie

Description

This is the February 12, 1940 issue of TIME magazine. World War II had been going on for over five months at this time. The cover photo/article is of Eve Curie. Like other issues of TIME, it is filled with other articles and features and vintage black & white and color advertisements.
This magazine is a paper time capsule. Read through it and learn what was important 80 years ago, what people were wearing and watching (at the movies only) and learn how World War II was affecting everyone...
The magazine measures approximately 8.25 x 11 inches and contains 84 pages.
Ève Denise Curie Labouisse (December 6, 1904-October 22, 2007) was a French and American writer, journalist and pianist. Ève Curie was the younger daughter of Marie and Pierre Curie. Ève was the only member of her family who did not choose a career as a scientist and did not win a Nobel Prize, although her husband, Henry Richardson Labouisse, Jr., did collect the Nobel Peace Prize in 1965 on behalf of UNICEF. She worked as a journalist and authored her mother's biography
Madame Curie
and a book of war reportage,
Journey Among Warriors
. From the 1960s she committed herself to work for UNICEF, providing help to children and mothers in developing countries.
TIME is a weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City. It was founded in 1923 and originally run by Henry Luce. It was the cornerstone of the TIME-Life publications empire.
TIME has the world's largest circulation for a weekly news magazine. The print edition has a readership of 26 million, 20 million of whom are based in the United States.
Formerly published by Time Inc., since November 2018 TIME has been published by TIME USA, LLC, owned by Marc Benioff.