1956/12/03 — Cover featuring Flag on Sunken U.S.S. Arizona is credited to N.R. Farbman
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Tortured Exodus to Liberty – Thousands of Hungarians Forsake Their Ravaged Homeland
A Sudden Snow Snarls the East
Shaky Cease-Fire in Egypt
A Look at the World’s Week
EDITORIAL:
Toward a Better U.N.
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:
The Long Trail to Winter Passage [...]
1956/11/26 — Cover featuring Ingrid Bergman is credited to Robert Landry
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Tanks and Yet More Tanks Raze Hungary
Testing Time for U.S. Caught in Two Crises
A Legacy of Anguist Haunts Truce on Suez
A Look at the World’s Week
Iroquois Rebury Ancient Bones to Soothe Dusturbed Ancestral Spirits
Marines Wail as Wives [...]
1956/11/19 — Cover featuring Wounded Egyptian Solider credited to Burt Glinn
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
How the British and French attacked canal — a small war in the shadow of a big-stick threat – 8 pages of the attack on the Suez Canal
A Split-Ticket vote for the historians to explain
Lost cause [...]
1956/11/12 — Cover featuring Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame is credited to Mark Shaw
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Hungarian patriots strike ferocious blows at a tyranny – 10 pages
World opinion rallies for Suez peace – 5 pages
The reappearance of two cardinals
A Look at the World’s Week – includes b&w photo of Elvis [...]
1956/09/03 — Cover featuring Slave Auction is credited to Robert Riggs
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
G.O.P. convention stages a rousing rally for Ike and Dick
A Look at the World’s Week
A cringing kidnapper who left his infant victim to perish is captured and confesses
EDITORIALS:
Ike, Adlai and American ardor
The new Republican harmony
PICTORIAL ESSAY:
“The Background [...]
1956/07/30 — Cover features Pier Angeli and is credited to Philippe Halsman
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
The Big Top Bows Out Forever as Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey folks its tents for the last time
A Look at the World’s Week
The Trial of a Marine Sergeant Becomes A Trial for the Corps [...]
1956/07/23 — Cover features The Battle of Buena Vista by Chamberlain
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
G.O.P. Smiles Widen With Ike’s Decision
A Look at the World’s Week
Anguish Cruelly Compounded – The Mother of a Kidnapped Baby Is Tortured by the Hoaxers
Greeks Mourn 54 Dead in the Aegean
Sights and Smells of Moscow – A [...]
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 [...]
1956/06/11 — Cover features Carroll Baker credited to Peter Stackpole
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Buddha’s 2,500th anniversary brings hosts of his half-billion believers to celebrations both pious and gay – 5 pages
Two eggs htch and now the small flock of U.S. whooping cranes numbers 31
A parliamentary row over helping U.S. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
1956/04/30 — Cover features Margaret Truman and husband Clifton Daniel credited to Arnold Newman
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
An extra special Saturday for Independence, Mo.
Her Grace of the movies gets a real life title – Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier – 9 pages
A Look at the World’s Week
A reception that [...]
1956/04/23 — Cover features Jayne Mansfield credited to Peter Stackpole
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:Sensational secret behind Stalin’s damnation:
An ex-NKVD general discloses deeds so shocking the Reds must disown their old idol by Alexander Orlov – 8 pages
An authority on the Soviet presents a document implicating Stalin as czarist spy by [...]
1956/04/16 — Cover featuring Berber Girls credited to David Douglas Duncan
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
As world worries about Middle East, new Egypt shows its strength – Photographed for LIFE by David Douglas Duncan – 8 pages including full-page b&w photo of Nasser
Nature triggers tornado season and man fights it
Salesman with [...]
1956/04/02 — Cover photograph featuring Teenage Telephone Tie-Up is credited to Grey Villet
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Hand That Shook the Democrats – Estes Kefauver moves to front after defeating Adlai Stevenson in Minnesota Primary
A Look at the World’s Week
U.S. Breaks into the Frozen Continent of Antarctica – Photographed for LIFE by [...]
1956/03/26 — Cover photograph featuring Julie Andrews is credited to Leonard McCombe
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Trouble to the east plagues the West – Troubles in the Middle East
The man who won Margaret Truman — Meet Clifton Daniel
Gas bill lobby’s tangled trail
Plots (including cemetery) full of poison
A Look at the World’s [...]
1956/03/12 — Cover photograph featuring Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited to Hank Walker
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
“After weeks of … devoutly prayerful consideration,” the drama of the President’s yes
Children for 17 Lands pay Homage to Pope Pius XII on his 80th Birthday
A Look at the World’s Week
Europe’s Bad Winter is Cruel [...]
1956/03/05 — Cover photograph featuring Kim Novak is credited to Leonard McCombe
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
The Golden Youth of Communism – An Exclusive Report on a Growing Army of Soviet Scientists – Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark
A Look at the World’s Week
Despite Arrests Montgomery Negroes Carry On Their Bold [...]
1956/02/27 — Cover featuring Eskimo Family is credited to Fritz Goro
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
The U.S. Races for a Supermissile
A Look at the World’s Week
The verdict is able–is Eisenhower willing?
Adlai Stevenson Emerges from a Brush With Death
A stop and go order on arms for Arabia
The end of the rope for Englishmen
Grateful [...]
1956/02/13 — Cover featuring Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur is credited to the U.S. Department of Defense
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
In Winter Olympics, Russians overshadow everyone but the one-man slam skier of Austria
A Look at the World’s Week
Balloon Goes Up and the Candidates Soar Among the Democrats
Washington Extends a [...]
1956/02/06 — Cover featuring Shirley Jones is credited to William Helburn
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
South Rises Again in Campaign to Delay Integration
Graph and Flares Shed Light on Disastrous California train wreck
Congress has a gassy debate over natural gas rates
Finns repossess as Russians surrender a lease
A Look at the World’s Week
EDITORIALS:
An artist [...]
1956/01/23 — Cover featuring Harry S Truman is credited to John Dominis
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Robbery Team That Stole $1 Million from Brink’s in 1950 After Elaborate Rehearsals is Seized on Deadline by F.B.I.
A Look at the World’s Week
Florida’s Fattest Tourist Fling – Millions Seek a Place in the Sun
A New [...]
1955/05/30 — Cover featuring Historic Playing Cards is credited to Arnold Newman, courtesy of Guy de Lagerberg.
Contents of this issue are as follows:THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
The chances for peace in 1955, an expert evaluation
New island will be first link in US offshore radar warning chain
A Look at the World’s Week
Tense time on a Winnipeg TV Tower
Color [...]
1955/05/02 — Cover featuring Oklahoma! movie dancers is credited to J.R. Eyerman
Contents of this issue are as follows:
Speaking of Pictures: Comparison for the world’s highest cataract
Letters to the Editors
Friends of the West Speak Up – Nehru and Chou Get a Rude Awakening at Asian-African Conference in Bandung
A Look at the World’s Week
Editorial: Can We Produce [...]
1955/04/11 — Cover featuring Grace Kelly is credited to Philippe Halsman.
Contents of this issue are as follows:
Speaking of Pictures: Candid photos of sidewalk typists show some candid writing
Letters to the Editors
US gets set for polio vaccine: Drug houses stock up as results as optimistically awaited from Salk tests
A Look at the World’s Week
Italy’s Premier Mario [...]
