1956/02/06 -- Cover featuring Shirley Jones is credited to William Helburn

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

  • South Rises Again in Campaign to Delay Integration
  • Graph and Flares Shed Light on Disastrous California train wreck
  • Congress has a gassy debate over natural gas rates
  • Finns repossess as Russians surrender a lease
  • A Look at the World's Week

    • EDITORIALS:

  • An artist confined
  • Artists at Liberty

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Wild birds in flight - Color pictures made of 5,000th of a second by a Newark, N.Y. nurseryman win $5,000 first prize in LIFE--P.S.A. Essay Contest
  • First of a new LIFE series, how to gie children's parties - celebrating the birthday of a 4-year-old, a Connecticut mother uses new rules drawn up by the director of the Gesell Institute and finds simplicity brings success - Photographed for LIFE by Nina Leen

    • ARTICLES:

  • Tough Decisions in Korean Crisis - in Part 3 of The Truman Memoirs the former President describes tense top-level debates in Washington while friction developed with MacArthur
  • The Commuters' Rebellion - Patrick McGinnis, as the New Haven Railroad Chief achieves a Unique Peak of Unpopularity - By Robert Wallace

    • SEQUEL:

  • Social Note from Moscow - "Porgy" actors have Russian Wedding

    • FASHION:
    Switches on Secretary's Suit - Eva Maria Saint's outfit in a new movie makes a whole week's wardrobe

    THEATER:

  • "True Limit!" Studies the Dilemma of Korean Turncoats

    • SCIENCE:

  • A new three-dimensional fabric - Trilok, puts to use the shrinking tendencies of a plastic

    • ART:

  • Reginald Marsh - Swarming City Scenes by a "U.S. Hogarth" Go On a Year-Long Tour of the Country

    • MOVIE:

  • A new star enlivens film revival of musical favorite, "Carousel"

    • ARCHITECTURE:

  • A Japanese hotel, its sixth story on tracks, spins its top

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Sculptor Noguchi transforms an African stool into modern furniture for teeterers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Mirage in the Arctic
  • Miscellany: pedaling a fiddle