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| DATE | DESCRIPTION | LOW | HIGH | AVERAGE |
| 1/3/38 | Swedish Skater | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| 1/10/38 | Koalas | $2.25 | $5.00 | $3.63 |
| 1/17/38 | Oil Tankers | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| 1/24/38 | Alpine Skiers | $2.25 | $5.00 | $3.63 |
| 1/31/38 | Student Nurses | $2.25 | $5.00 | $3.63 |
| 2/7/38 | Gary Cooper | $2.50 | $10.00 | $5.25 |
| 2/14/38 | Egypt's Queen | $2.00 | $5.50 | $3.33 |
| 2/21/38 | Carl Sandburg | $1.75 | $6.00 | $2.88 |
| 2/28/38 | Monte Carlo Fireworks; William Allen White of Emporia, Kansas an American institution is 70; Mr. Roosevelt's farm bill and Mr. Remsberg's farm; Firestone Funeral; Helen Keller meets some great men - starts cash campaign for blind; WPA reports its accomplishments and points a solution to a great problem - 24 cents of every tax dollar spent on relief. WPA means 1,574 schools, 3,076 tennis courts, 779,587 privies, 770 parks, 24,099,607 dead rats, 55,231 art students; Nazi Germany woos and wins little Austria | $2.25 | $10.00 | $4.92 |
| 3/7/38 | High School Girls | $2.25 | $5.25 | $4.15 |
| 3/14/38 | Jane Froman at a radio rehearsal; Events: Mardi Gras ...New Orleans - America's most famous party - (Pictorial); Baruch admonishes New Deal as Roosevelt depression bumps bottom; Art: Mexican Exhibit Tours U.S. - Diego Rivera, Roberto Montenegro, Carlos Orozco, Romero Ruiz, Galvan etc.; Hollywood's Deanna Durbin sees New York with Eddie Cantor. | $2.25 | $19.00 | $7.63 |
| 3/21/38 | Marriage Clinic Couple | $2.25 | $5.25 | $4.17 |
| 3/28/38 | German Bugler | $5.00 | $10.50 | $6.92 |
| 4/4/38 | Anthony Eden | $2.50 | $4.00 | $3.25 |
| 4/11/38 | Fashion | $5.00 | $5.00 | $5.00 |
| 4/18/38 | Paulette Goddard; In St. Louis 6,000 music teachers hear 9,000 child musicians - educators seek ways to train future Beethovens and Bachs; The Austrians learn to do the Nazi salute - mountain men are unimpressed by Goring; Sigrid Gurie - The flower of Flatbush - makes good - Marco Polo Movie with Gary Cooper and Sigrid Gurie; The Santa Fe Super Chief, (pictorial) Fastest Thing on Wheels From Chicago to Los Angeles; The Jew, a history from early times until 1938 | $2.50 | $8.00 | $5.44 |
| 4/25/38 | Brooklyn Dodgers' Tom Winsett | $1.50 | $7.00 | $4.17 |
| 5/2/38 | John N. Garner | $2.00 | $3.00 | $2.50 |
| 5/9/38 | Fashions of Summer; Horrors of War collector cards; Dizzy Dean; Ginger Rogers | $2.00 | $9.00 | $5.33 |
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| 5/16/38 | Chinese Soldier | $2.00 | $2.50 | $2.25 |
| 5/23/38 | Errol Flynn as Robin Hood; Hitler & Mussolini meet | $2.00 | $14.50 | $9.20 |
| 5/30/38 | Czech General Jan Sirvoy; Czechoslovakia: A Democracy Fighting for Its Life; Henry Ford Takes a $35,000,000 Crack at the Depression, America's First Black-out. | $2.00 | $3.75 | $2.88 |
| 6/6/38 | Youth Problems | $2.50 | $4.00 | $3.25 |
| 6/13/38 | Gertrude Lawrence | $2.50 | $15.00 | $7.17 |
| 6/20/38 | Rudolph Valentino | $2.50 | $22.00 | $7.42 |
| 6/27/38 | Franklin D. Roosevelt | $2.50 | $2.50 | $2.50 |
| 7/4/38 | West Point Wedding | $3.00 | $3.25 | $3.08 |
| 7/11/38 | Shirley Temple | $4.00 | $22.00 | $12.21 |
| 7/18/38 | Camisoles in Fashion | $3.00 | $3.00 | $3.00 |
| 7/25/38 | Queen Elizabeth | $2.50 | $3.00 | $2.83 |
| 8/1/38 | Garment Workers at Play | $3.00 | $5.00 | $3.67 |
| 8/8/38 | Divers | $2.50 | $5.00 | $3.38 |
| 8/15/38 | Sumerian High Priest; Photographic Essay: Diggers: What Archaeologists are Finding in Yesterday's Worlds - Greece - Palestine - Egypt - RomeColumbis - Mesopotamia; Speaking of Pictures: Sears, Roebuck new catalog pictures; Music under the summer stars - New York's Lewison Stadium - Jascha Heifetz; Yellow River Floods China and Swamps a Japanese Offensive - War Map; LIFE looks back: The Last Russo-Jaspanese War; Henry Ford is 75; Birthday party for Ella Reeve Bloor - Europe's Four Best Reporters Interpret the continent's Bluff and Guff - Augur, Gayda, Pertinax, Tabouis. | $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.22 |
| 8/22/38 | Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers | $4.00 | $15.50 | $11.25 |
| 8/29/38 | Goodbye to Summer | $3.00 | $5.00 | $3.85 |
| 9/5/38 | Fall Fashions | $2.50 | $3.00 | $2.83 |
| 9/12/38 | Hungarian Police | $2.00 | $3.00 | $2.67 |
| 9/19/38 | James A. Farley | $2.50 | $3.00 | $2.83 |
| 9/26/38 | Country Fair Barker; Frank Lloyd Wright house; The Fate Of Europe article with rare Aldof Hitler photos. | $2.75 | $12.50 | $6.25 |
| 10/3/38 | Czech Soldier; Inside France's Maginot Line, Hitler's Siegfried Lone looks across the Rhine at the Maginot Line; In 20 Years, Europe's Map has been drawn and re-drawn by War and Diplomacy; Los Angeles girls make American Legion's 20th convention a pretty affair; The Rise and Decline of Mussolini by Borgese; Artist Howard Brodie sketches pennant winning Yankees; Negroes - The U.S. also has a minority problem; Life goes to a party on the French Rivera with the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. | $3.00 | $10.00 | $6.50 |
| 10/10/38 | Legion Drum Majorettes; Hitler listens to reason at Munich conference; Chamberlain gets cheered and jeered for buying peace at Czechs' expense; The people of Europe did not want to fight another war now; British fleet versus German army; World force replaces world law; "Old Joe" Chamberlain's second son; A biography in pictures from 1908; The Roosevelt cabinet ponders the war crisis - listens to Britain's Prime Minister; Art: The French impressionists - Edoward Manet - Claude Monet - Pierre Auguste Renoir - Edgar Degas; Pro Football - Edwin Kahn, Sammy Baugh, Dick Tuckey, Ernie Pinckert, Turk Edwards, Red Krause, Swede Olsson- Champion Washington Redskins; Hank Greenberg, 58 home runs - Detroit Tigers; Hillbilly Sam Snead. | $2.00 | $10.00 | $4.89 |
| 10/17/38 | Carole Lombard | $2.50 | $29.00 | $8.45 |
| 10/24/38 | Columbia College's Sid Luckman | $2.00 | $12.00 | $4.86 |
| 10/31/38 | Raymond Massey; Abe Lincoln on Broadway | $2.75 | $8.50 | $4.56 |
| 11/7/38 | California Gubernatorial Candidate Culbert Olsen | $2.50 | $3.00 | $2.83 |
| 11/14/38 | Brenda Duff Frazier; Seabiscuit; Charlie Chaplin | $3.00 | $25.00 | $8.59 |
| 11/21/38 | Japanese Boy; Fulgencio Batista, strong man of Cuba; Bill Stern broadcasts a Harvard football game pictorial, and picks All American's 1938 including Tom Harmon, Michigan - Sid Luckman, Columbia; Movie of the Week pictorial profile: The Cowboy and the Lady starring Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon; New York night life - Not for years, have the city's night clubs been as gay, as racy or as elaborate; Hearst's fabulous treasures go on sale - first pictures inside art warehouse | $2.50 | $10.00 | $5.50 |
| 11/28/38 | LIFE Birthday Baby; Nazi Germany Takes an Awful Revenge on Its Jews (KRISTALLNACHT); Hitler and Goring Coo at Goring's Baby; The Democracies Pray for German Jews; LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World; Pictures of the Week: John L. Lewis' Daughter Steps into the Spotlight; Anglo-American Trade Treaty Signed as Ladies Storm White House; George VI Watches Vaudeville While His Brother Meet in Paris; In Jerusalem Christian, Jew and Moslem Fight. | $3.00 | $17.75 | $7.44 |
| 12/5/38 | Ballerina Yvette Chauvire` | $2.50 | $3.25 | $2.92 |
| 12/12/38 | Champion Labrador Retriever | $2.50 | $10.00 | $4.35 |
| 12/19/38 | Mary Martin | $3.00 | $3.25 | $3.13 |
| 12/26/38 | Lutist Mrs. Otto Baldauf; Errol Flynn | $2.50 | $5.00 | $3.50 |