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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 – [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
