1953/08/31 -- Cover featuring Donna Reed is credited to Sharland.

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • A Dramatic Royal Comeback in Iran -- the Shah
  • Reds Photograph a GIs Reaction to the Truce in Korea
  • Zoo's Babies Get Overdose of Love
  • Great Britain Provides New Face for UN - Selwyn George
  • American Legion Provides New Face for Europe - Lewis Gough
  • Ruinous Epilog to a Homeric Drama
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • First Pictures of Atomic Sub

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Twilight of the Bosses
  • The Bossless Democrats

    • PICTORIAL ESSAY:

  • The Helmericks, Back Home in the Arctic

    • ARTICLE:

  • Space, It's Enough to Make the Blood Boil - Many Fearful Problems Remain to Be Solved Before Man Can break Free of the Earth -- by Jonathan Norton Leonard

    • RELIGION:

  • Assisi's Second Saint -- St. Clare

    • TELEVISION:

  • New Look on the Battlefield

    • MUSIC:

  • Once There Was a Boy - Brewster "Brucie" Weil

    • ART:

  • The Bartering Bridegroom - James Poetzsch

    • FASHION:

  • Dior's First 13 Short Skirts

    • MOVIES:

  • From Here to Eternity with photos of scenes with Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed

    • SPORTS:

  • Archery Expert Aims at an Egg - Ann Marston

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Two Circus Chimps Play Tennis in Entertainingly Human Poses
  • LIFE Goes Tubing on the Sammamish Slough
  • Miscellany: A Real Tear from an Old Ham
  • Lucky Strikes Cigarettes ad on the Back Cover