1953/09/14 -- Cover featuring Casey Stengel is credited to Mark Kauffman.

Contents of this issue are as follows:
COVER:

  • Casey Stengel's Winning Smile

    THE WEEK'S EVENTS:

  • The Lonely Men of Short Creek Await Trial (polygamy)
  • Heat Launches Raft of Sales for a Melting 'Missouri'
  • General Dean's Heroism is Revealed
  • Naguib Makes a Pilgrimmage
  • West Germans Break Up Communist Election Putsch
  • US Bombers Extend Their Range to The World
  • A Tornado of Rebuilding Near Flint
  • LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
  • SS 'Miramar' and He Embattled Skipper

    • EDITORIAL:

  • 'High Level Doldrums' in Business

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Images of a Magic City (New York), Part 1, Photographed for LIFE by Ernest Haas
  • A Fresh Look at Lodge about Henry Cabot Lodge

    • ARTICLES:

  • 'A Regular Roosting Place' by Robert Wallace
  • The Russian Soldier: A Close-up by Ronald Schiller and Garrett Underhill

    • AVIATION:

  • A Wedge of Wedges in British Sky

    • BUSINESS:

  • Bright Boy Grocer

    • ANIMALS:

  • Sam, Whose Pants and Ears Are Too Long (a basset hound)

    • FASHION:

  • Soles to Be Seen

    • MOVIES:

  • Sir Larry Sings on Horseback -- Laurence Olivier in The Beggar's Opera

    • ART:

  • Durante by the Numbers -- A Jimmy Durante paint-by-numbers set -- text talks about paint-by-numbers as though it were new

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Plywood Toys Are Backyard Boon

    • MUSIC:

  • Joe Friday's Four Notes Are Expanded

    • SPORTS:

  • Charlie and Ol' Case in a Series Preview -- World Series Preview concentrates on New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel and Brooklyn Dodgers manager Chuck Dressen

    • SCIENCE:

  • Eye Mote Reveals New Facts About Vision

    • NATURE:

  • Ant Lion Waits for Ant to Drop In

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Actress Demonstrates First Starring Role is photos of Rosanna Podesta
  • Sequel: A Long Voyage to No Home
  • LIFE Goes to a Belated Dutch Wedding Party
  • Miscellany: Mushroom Cloud Over Paris
  • Ben Hogan for Chesterfield Cigarettes on the Back Cover