1952/01/28 -- Cover photograph featuring Phyllis Newell is credited to John Raymond

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

  • An Ancient Pass Traps a Modern Donner Party
  • Bomb Makes a Shambles of a Sunny Saigon Square
  • Family and France Pay Highest Honors to Be Lattre
  • A Gambler's Luck Holds Out - Trial of Frank Costello with illustrations
  • America Honors A Doughty Skipper and A Doughty Orator
  • A Political Haymaker Goes Wide
  • Dutch Force Way into Church
  • Sweetness Rules Parade in Pasadena
  • Newly Opened Superroad Unravels Chronic Traffic Jam - New Jersey Turnpike

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Schuman Plan

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Everglades -- Photographed for Life by Alfred Eisenstaedt

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • The Master Imposter - An Incredible Tale by Joe McCarthy about Ferdinand Waldo Demara

    • SCIENCE:

  • Measuring With Mercury

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Too Many Talents

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures - Row of Barrels Makes Some Good Skaters Look Awkward
  • Letters to the Editors
  • People
  • Life's Camera Solos With a Ten-Year Old
  • Miscellany - "Miracle of Stones"
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis