1956/07/16 -- Cover photograph featuring Gary Cooper and Anthony Perkins is credited to Don Ornitz

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

  • A Perilous Search Follows History's Worst Commercial Air Disaster
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • A Look at the World's Week, Moscow Dept.
  • Bankrupt and Stranded, the King Brothers; Show Joins a Growing List of Circus Big Tops Which Have Been Struck

  • Pinch of Steel Strike Is Felt in Other, Varied Industries
  • Rome City Hall Has a Free-for-All Over a Mayoralty Election With Poor Giulio Near to a TKO

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Action Is Needed on Air Safety
  • Nixon is Making Sense and Friends

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • My Garden, by H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor - Photographed for LIFE by Frank Scherschel
  • A Weekend of Woe for a Father Named Joe - Joe Gordon Gives HIs Wife the Weekend Off and Bravely Takes Charge of Twin Babies - Photographed for LIFE by Joe Scherschel

    • ARTICLE:

  • A Debate, Pro and Con - Subject: Richard M. Nixon by Robert Coughlan

    • FASHION:

  • London Fashions, Models Wow Drab Russia

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • A Plate That Flies for Small Fry

    • ART:

  • Museum Director's Choice - Denver's Otto Karl Bach Picks the Carved Ancestor of an Indian Chief

    • MOVIES:

  • 24-year-old Copy of Cooper - Tony Perkins Takes After His Movie Father, Gary

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Old Stars--New Steps - Actors Perform Out of Character in a London Revue

    • PARTY:

  • Wedding Wine for Marilyn - She Becomes Mrs. Miller in a Simple Religious Ceremony - 3 full pages of photos of Marilyn Monroe in wedding veil and gown as she marries playwright Arthur Miller, all black & white

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: The Better Mice
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Face in the Raindrops