1954/08/30 -- Cover photograph featuring Anna Maria Alberghetti is credited to Loomis Dean

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

  • World Council Works for Church Unity
  • Store Hires Hostesses During Pilot Strike
  • Quiet Boys ... And Horror in Brooklyn
  • A Man Lives to See Another Evening Sun Go Down
  • Texas Chooses Up for a Runoff
  • De Gasperi Dies in Mountains He Loved
  • Goan Invasion Yeilds to Faith, Firmness
  • Life on the Newsfronts of the World

    • EDITORIALS:

  • An Amusing Summer Fantasy
  • Fantastic Summer Realities

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • 100 Years of Yachting - 8 pages

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Red Specter That haunts Italy by Emmet John Hughes

    • ANIMALS:

  • Horned Steed

    • SCIENCE:

  • A New Amphibious Vehicle, the Rhino

    • SPORTS:

  • 103 Ties with 102 on Water Skies

    • MOVIES:

  • Many Sided Jack Webb

    • MUSIC:

  • Anna Maria and Family, Happy in the Rain (cover story)

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Mass Do-It-Yourself Project

    • DANCE:

  • Contortion Recreates Kafka 's Cockroach

    • BUSINESS:

  • Northland, Detroit's Modern Bazaar

    • FASHION:

  • Fall's Bumper Crop of Jumpers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Australian Cartoonist Thinks Up New Uses for Statues
  • Letters to the Editors
  • LIFE's Visit: Boys Rule the Roost on Camp's Last Day
  • Miscellany: Whash Uff, Doc?