1956/02/13 -- Cover featuring Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur is credited to the U.S. Department of Defense

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

  • In Winter Olympics, Russians overshadow everyone but the one-man slam skier of Austria
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • Balloon Goes Up and the Candidates Soar Among the Democrats
  • Washington Extends a Welcome for Old Friend Anthony Eden and Joins HIm in a Pledge for Peace
  • Perry Como 's Rapid Rise Arouses Gleason's Network -- And Jackie Gleason
  • An 8-year-old French Prodigy Settles a Furor By Writing a Poem

    • EDITORIAL:

  • A Hole in NATO's Dyke

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Recall of General MacArthur - In Part 4 of the Memoirs of Harry Truman tells of clashes over policy that led to the recall when "I could no longer tolerate his insubordination"
  • General MacArthur Makes His Reply - He accuses Truman of "fallible" memory and dodging a court of inquiry by waiting until now to bring up "this belated claim of insubordination"

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Lusty art of a Lost People - Italy's Ancient Etruscans come boldly to life in the works they left behind - Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
  • What I like about Living in San Francisco - Written and Photographed for LIFE by N.R. Farbman

    • MOVIES:

  • Benny Goodman is heard but not seen as Steve Allen does the clarinetist's story on film

    • ANIMALS:
    Wild beasts at a Milwaukee banquet help stock new zoo

    THEATER:

  • Artist Jacob Landau 's Drawings Form a Colorful background for Photos of Margaret Sullavan 's double life in "Janus"

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Her club contract keeps Dancer Neile Adams from a big job

    • PARTY:

  • Brazil's New President has a public palace-warming

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Rare photograph shows assassination plotters present at Lincoln's inaugeration
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: a draft aft