1955/05/30 -- Cover featuring Historic Playing Cards is credited to Arnold Newman, courtesy of Guy de Lagerberg.

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

  • The chances for peace in 1955, an expert evaluation
  • New island will be first link in US offshore radar warning chain
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • Tense time on a Winnipeg TV Tower
  • Color film records A-blast ruin as Civil Defense watches from afar
  • A parched Oklahomatown prays and dresses up for rain. It comes.

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Security and fair play
  • Diplomacy for the millions

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • America's Arts and Skills, Part II: the look of liberty in craftmanship as patriotism becomes the American theme. Photographed for LIFE by Arnold Newman
  • Spring on a farm: under a warming sun the growing season's work begins. Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark

    • ARTICLE:

  • Dead end for the US highway, by Herbert Brean. What is wrong with the road you'll be using this weekend, what made it that way and what can be done about it

    • FASHION:

  • France's bigtime dressmakers turn a hand to playclothes

    • EDUCATION:
    Colby undergrads dedicate a cleanup day to president emeritus who did most to get new campus built

    MOVIES:

  • Film version of "The Seven Year Itch" gives a reassuring answer to a burning question about Marilyn Monroe -- Opens with a 6" X 13" photo of Marilyn and follows with 6 more pics of Marilyn ranging in size from 2-1/2" X 4" to 4-1/2" X 5-3/4"

    • ART:

  • The Queen of England poses for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Grace Kelly's Riviera romance
  • Sequel: US and USSR Elbe veterans reunite in Moscow
  • Party: Student high jinks add zest to Norway's "Fourth of July"
  • Miscellany: A seat for 17
  • Corn Flakes ad illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on the Back Cover