1956/03/26 -- Cover photograph featuring Julie Andrews is credited to Leonard McCombe

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

  • Trouble to the east plagues the West - Troubles in the Middle East

  • The man who won Margaret Truman -- Meet Clifton Daniel
  • Gas bill lobby's tangled trail
  • Plots (including cemetery) full of poison
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • Marooned passengers photograph their own ordeal as the "Washington Mail" sinks in Gulf of Alaska

    • EDITORIAL:

  • "A new vision playing on old facts"

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Norman Conquest - Part 2 of Volume 1 ("The Birth of Britain") in Sir Winston Churchill's "History of the English-Speaking Peoples"

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Famous English battlefields - 8 pages of color illustrating the Churchill article - Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel

    • EDUCATION:

  • Blind for a day - An Arizona physics teacher blindfolds his students to dramatize the story of light

    • THEATER:
    Shaw's "Pygmalion" with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews makes a fine Broadway musical

    MEDICINE:

  • U.S. atoms for peace exhibit builds a Japanese archway to atomic moons

    • ART:

  • A German-born Yale professor trains art students with optical tricks

    • MOVIES:

  • Alec Guinness , as a prelate, a prince and a prowler, is good for three new films at once

    • AVIATION:

  • British "Droop Snoot" jet fighter sets world speed record

    • SCIENCE:

  • Old bones make a big stew: some think Italy's Oreopithecus is ancestor of apes, some thing of man, some neither

    • YOUTH:

  • Kids with guns: drawing a bead on safety, Indiana Youngsters start at Age 6 learning how to handle firearms

    • SPORTS:

  • Larceny on the links: con men take "friendly" game of golf to a fatal financial hazard for the nation's golfers - By Marshall Smith

    • FASHION:

  • The rustic bandanna gets down off the farm in spring and summer styles

    • PARTY:

  • Marching back to 1066 - British walker try to match the pace of King Harold's Saxons and are too tired to fight

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Bubbly British Billow Below Ground
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Dog's Bath Without Wrath