1956/05/28 -- Cover features Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner in "The King and I" credited to James Mitchell

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

  • In a Car Surplus Situation One Firm is In Real Trouble
  • The Mystery of Frogman Lionel Crabb's Dive for Red Secrets
  • A Look at the World's Week
  • Requiem for 11 Nuns Killed in Puzzling Canadian Air Crash
  • Assembly Line Methods Speed the Building of the World's Longest Overwater Highway Highway Bridge, the 24-Mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
  • A Gentle Old Man and His Love for Two Doves

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Law and Southern Schools

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Russians Pursue the Lively Arts - LIFE Looks at Russia's Dogged Drive to Feed a People Famished for Culture - Part 1 of 2 -- Photographed by Edward Clark

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • How Stumping Kefauver Stumps the Pros by Robert Coughlan -- Second in Series on Democratic Candidates

    • DANCE:

  • Old Toes, New Pros - Retired 75-Year-Old Otto Krinke and His Wife Make a Lively New Professiona; Dancing Team

    • ART:
    The Art Acquired by Yalemen - 6 Pages of Color On an Alumni Show, Representing Classes from '67 to '51

    FASHION:

  • Designer-for-the-young Anne Klein Pares Down Lingerie to the Midsummer Minimum

    • POETRY:

  • "On This Wall, In This Town, In Their Own State" - Paul Engle's Sonnets Salute Iowa's War Dead on Memorial Day

    • MOVIES:

  • The King, His Camera and a Film Triumph - Yul Brynner Is a Masterful Monarch and a Deft Photographer for "The King and I"

    • ANIMALS:

  • Tot's Tarantula - A 2-Year-Old Has Her Olwn Zoo at Home

    • SCIENCE:

  • Chivalrous Robot - G.E.'s New Machine Performs Elaborate Services at a Distance

    • RELIGION:

  • A Revolutionary New Church Shape in Mexico City

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • What It's Like to Ride the "Nautilus" - LIFE Correspondent Clay Blair Tells About His Underwater Trip in the Nuclear-Powered Submarine

    • EDUCATION:

  • TV Teaches Foreign Language to First-Graders

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Smothering Weeds With Plastic

    • PARTY:

  • Gala for a Great Friend from Indonesia

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Fanciful Flights During Cleanup Day on the Movie Lot
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Looks Like Horse Sense