1956/02/27 -- Cover featuring Eskimo Family is credited to Fritz Goro

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

  • The U.S. Races for a Supermissile
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • The verdict is able--is Eisenhower willing?
  • Adlai Stevenson Emerges from a Brush With Death
  • A stop and go order on arms for Arabia
  • The end of the rope for Englishmen
  • Grateful California towns say thank you to 4,000 GIs who saved them from total flood ruin

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Real Farm Problem

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • The Growing of Society - as the earth warmed at the end of the Ice Age, man set up communities on the sea and lake shore -- Part 3 of The Epic of Man - Text by Lincoln Barnett

  • The World of Pooh Lives On -- A.A. Milne, who died last month, leaves his magic to all childhood - 6-1/2 pages

    • ARTICLE:

  • How to ease the burdens of the world's most burdensome job: the President's illness points up the need to free his office from archaic superstructure and endless protocol - by Robert Coughlan

    • FASHION:

  • Dressed Up With Shorts - Palm Beach Society Helps Informal Outfits Off to a Sylish Start

    • MODERN LIVING:
    A Treasury of Old Tubbery - Display bares man's quest fr cleanliness dating back to 500 B.C.

    THEATER:

  • Movie gangster Edward G. Robinson returns triumphantly to Broadway as a lovelorn widower

    • SPORTS:

  • Champion toy poodle wins the Westminster Dog Show top prize with his elegance and beauty

    • PARTY:

  • High glee at a political jubilee - Leader Hugh Gaitskell is life of party at big Labor Celebration

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Whole Race at a Glance
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Trusting a Tomcat