1956/05/14 -- Cover featuring Gainsborough Look in Fashion is credited to Mark Shaw

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

  • Flying Feet Produce a Thrilling Day of Sports
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • Alben Barkley, Great Campaigner - His Last Audience is the Nation
  • The Nation Learns That the Second Best Air Force Is Not Good Enough
  • Interior Secretary McKay, Who Quit to Fight Senator Wayne Morse, Finds Oregon Primary Fight Is Tough
  • Grace and Rainier's Official Wedding Picture -- In Color

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Danger - Pettifoggers At Work
  • Step Toward State of Alaska

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • The Grand Canyon 's Hidden Wonders Are Revealed on a Long Trek Into Places Few Have Ever Seen -- Photographed for LIFE by A.Y. Owen
  • Mellon's Miracle - The Head of Pittsburgh's First Family Leads HIs City Into a Renaissance

    • ARTICLES:

  • Genteel Queen of Crime, Whodunit Writer Agatha Christie, Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder by Nigel Dennis
  • Henry Wallace Describes HIs Thoughts on Communism and Peace and And Tells Why He Supports Eisenhower as the Man to Avoid and "Atomic Abyss"

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • What to Do About the Draft? LIFE Presents a Guide for Young Men Facing Military Service and For Their Parents

    • MOVIES:

  • New Star Cathy Dunn , 7, Sees Her Movie, "Lovers and Lollipops," With Her Friend, Veteran Star, Richie Andrusco, 10

    • MEDICINE:

  • A 49-Year-Old Veteran Is Chief of a Salt Lake Nursing Service and Opens Up a New Career for Men

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Ex-Movie Queen Constance Bennett, 51, Rocks and Rolls in Dungarees to Kid the Teen-Agers

    • SEQUEL:

  • Korean Orphan, "the Boy Who Wouldn't Smile," Finds a Happy Home in the U.S.

    • FASHION:

  • An Old Master Is Back In Style - Gainsborough Girls Grace Parties Again

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • A Pipsqueak Sailboat Costs $30 to Build

    • EDUCATION:

  • The Gifted High School Students Who Won Big Scholarships Display Varied Talents

    • SPORTS:

  • Crooner Frankie Laine and Golfer Gene Littler Hit the Jackpot in the Las Vegas Calcutta Golf Pool

    • HISTORY:

  • Biggest Collection of U.S. Swords

    • PARTIES:

  • Visit to Texas Ranch Gives Foreign Ambassadors An Unstarched View of the U.S.

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Big-Scale Manhattan Model
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Peggy the Portable Pony
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features small sepia headshot photos of 20 Baseball Stars including Ted Kluszewski, Richie Ashburn, Warren Spahn, Yogi Berra, Early Wynn, Harvey Haddix, and others