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1956/06/22 — Cover features Breakaway Plane illustrated by Robert McCall

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

Troubled South: Search for a Middle Ground by C.A. McKnight about a moderate’s dilemma in the desegregation fight

10 Tips to Weekend Golfers by Cary Middlecoff

Breakaway Plane by James J. Haggerty, Jr.

The Man in the Gray Dacron Suit

Pick a Picnic by Helen Evans Brown and James A. Beard

Why Close Schools in Summer? by Harry Henderson

The Arts Look Lively in Boston by Russell Lynes

SHORT STORIES

“Frame of Mind” — The Short Short Story by Sam F. Ciulla

“First Lesson” by Mildred Clingerman and illustrated by James Dwyer

“Death Starts a Rumor” by Charles B. Child and illustrated by John Pike

SERIAL

“Old Yeller” — Part 2 of 3 — by Fred Gipson and illustrated by C.E. Monroe, Jr.

FEATURES:

Appointment with O’Hara by John O’Hara

Letters

48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport

Cold,Cold World by Ted Key

Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty, Jr.

Collier’s Comment

Full-page color illustrated ad for “Trapeze” starring Burt Lancaster, Gina Lollobrigida and Tony Curtis

1956/08/31 — Cover features Bert Lahr

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

Bert Lahr – What Every Candidate Should Know

Our Crowded Sky by Theodore H. White tells the story of air travel from the Jenny to the Jet

Russia’s Edge in Jetliners by James J. Haggerty, Jr.

The Magic Fog by Robert O’Brien is about fog in San Francisco

Those Efficient Europeans by Robert Bendiner

Now: Man-Made Virus by Milton Silverman

FAMILY LIVING

Style – In the Softening Process

Treats – Up to New Tricks

Living Rooms – Three Designers, Three Points of View

Clothes – The Fair Lady Look

SHORT STORIES

“Revolt in Suburbia” — The Short Short Story — by John Keasler with illustration by Aurelius Battaglia

“Claudie, Friend of Phlox by Dillon Anderson and illustrated by Robert Bugg

SERIAL

“Something Fishy” — Part 1 of 2 — by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Ronald Searle

FEATURES:

Appointment with O’Hara by John O’Hara – Page includes small color photo of 22 year old Brigitte Bardot

Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty, Jr.

Letters

48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport

Collier’s Comment

1938/06/11 — Cover design by Jon Whitcomb

Contents as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

“Front Man” by Will F. Jenkins and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

“Flatfoot” by Leslie T. White and illustrated by Elmore Brown

“Hollywood Ghost” by Budd Schulberg and illustrated by Robert O. Reid

“Scout Detail” by Ernest Haycox and illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

“Smart Dope” — The Short Short Story by Jerome Weidman and illustrated by Hy Rubin

SERIAL STORIES:

“The Runaway” — Part 2 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Walter Klett

“The Glass Slipper” — Part 5 — by Mignon G. Eberhart and illustrated by C.C. Beall

ARTICLES:

Our Muscle-Bound Navy by Lt. Commander Holden A. Evans

Poor Man’s Fishing by Frank J. Taylor

The Lady Can Take It by Katharine Roberts is about Louise Fazenda

Spot News by Edith M. Stern and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff

Looking You in the Eye by Hannah Lees and illustrated by George De Zayas

PLUS:

Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster

Editorial: Look Before You Hit

1938/04/16 — Cover design by Dan Osher

Contents as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

“Shark Meat” by Will F. Jenkins and illustrated by William Meade Prince

“Party on the Stage” by Margery Sharp and illustrated by C.C. Beall

“Maid by the Moon” by Frank Condon and illustrated by Gilbert Darling

“The Grave on the Hill” by Naomi Lane Babson and illustrated by Martha Sawyers

“Whisper” — The Short Short Story by A.D. Morford and illustrated by George Howe

SERIAL STORIES:

“Sunset Voyage” — Part 8 by Lawrence G. Blochman and illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

“Man in the Saddle” — Part 3 — by Ernest Haycox and illustrated by Dan Sweeney

ARTICLES:

Hope Chest by J.D. Ratcliff is about iron lungs

Dear Pensioner by John T. Flynn

Knights of the Keyhole by Grover Jones with small illustrations of Walter Winchell, Jimmy Fidler and Sidney Skolsky by George de Zayas

Wild Gold by Jim Marshall

Singing Slugger by Quentin Reynolds is about Buddy Hassett

PLUS:

Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster

Editorial: Looking West

1957/01/04 — Cover featuring Princess Grace Kelly

ARTICLES:

“18,000,000 Teen-Agers Can’t Be Wrong by Bill Davidson

Look What’s Moving in My Pipe! by Alfred Lansing

He Makes Hockey Look Easy by Tom Meany about Montreal’s Jean Beliveau

Is the Missionary Done For? by Delia and Ferdinand Kuhn

Baby Doll by Thomas C. Ryan is about Carroll Baker – One page of black & white photos

Princess Grace Prepares for Her Baby – 3 pages of color photos

FAMILY LIVING AND LEISURE

New Budget Winter Vacations by Norman D. Ford

The Case for the Temperamental Souffle

SHORT STORIES

“Grandpa and the Iroquois” — The Short Short Story by A.A. Davidson

“The Long Way Home” by Eustace Cockrell and illustrated by Albert John Pucci

SERIAL

“Doom Cliff” — Part 2 of 3 — by Luke Short and illustrated by Louis S. Glanzman

THE COMPLETE MYSTERY

“The Christmas-Party Murder” is a Nero Wolfe Mystery by Rex Stout and illustrated by Alex Ross – 12 full pages

FEATURES:

48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport

Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty, Jr.

Behind the Wheel by Siler Freeman

Letters

Why Don’t They?

Now They’ve Done It!” by Lawrence Galton

It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman

Collier’s Comment

1956/09/28 — Cover features the Andrea Doria

Contents as follows:

ARTICLES:

Five Desparate Hours in Cabin 56 by Cornelius Ryan and illustrated by John Groth — The untold story of horror and heroism aboard the sinking Andrea Doria – 7 full pages

Why So Many Home Runs–Is It E=1/2mv2? by Tom Meany — Longhairs study the rash of long balls that broke out during 1956, includes a color photo of Mickey Mantle

Fall Travel: Take an Autumn Leave

A Cartoonist Goes Campaigning by Bill Mauldin

To Help Your Child Succeed in School by Dr. Harold G. Shane

Franco’s Successor by Leigh White includes a large color photo of young Prince Juan Carlos

The Feud With Godfrey: My Story — Part 2 by Ed Sullivan

L’Enfant Terrible by Robert W. Marks

FAMILY LIVING

The Long Look from Paris

Underweight Overcoats

SHORT STORIES

“The Secret” — The Short Short Story — by Steve Allen and illustrated by Anthony Saris

“Miss Bangs and the Professor” by Helen Davis Szold and illustrated by Jane Oliver

“A Master for Psalmsinger” by Dion Henderon and illustrated by C.E. Monroe, Jr.

SERIAL

“The Hard Man” — Part 1 of 3 — by Leo Katcher and illustrated by Robert Fawcett

FEATURES:

Appointment with O’Hara by John O’Hara

Collier’s Credits by Jerome Beatty

Hobby by Gustav Lundberg

48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport

Letters

Why Don’t They?

Now They’ve Done It! by Lawrence Galton

It’s the Law! by Dick Hyman

Collier’s Comment

1952/11/08 — The cover is credited to Birney Lettick

Contents as follows:
ARTICLES:

The World’s Most Important Mice by J.D. Ratcliff

Why Half Our Combat Soldiers Fail to Shoot by Bill Davidson

Home on the Typewriter by Llewellyn Miller

What to Look for on Election Night by Robert Trout and Paul W. White

Perry Como Cuts a Disc — Collier’s Color Camera

Williamsburg of the West by Huntington Smith is about Virginia City, Montana

Battle of the Bagpipes

Get Out and Vote! by Gregory D’Alessio

Catching Condors Barehanded by Ken Krippene

FICTION:

“Special Deputy” by William Fuller and illustrated by C.E. Monroe, Jr.

“The Mad Monarch” by Robert Yoder and illustrated by Gilbert Darling

“Code of the Underworld” — Short Short Story by Robert Carson with illustration by Euclid Shook

“Dog Island Mission” by Jacob Hay and illustrated by James Dwyer

“The Blue Coast” by Ethel Edison Gordon and illustrated by Walter Klett

“Operation Bench” by William R. Scott and illustrated by John Walters

PLUS:

48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport

Paging the Pony Express by Stan Margulies

Editorials

1952/10/04 — Cover is credited to Peter Dmitri

Contents as follows:
ARTICLES:

I Eat Like a Bird by Gurney Williams and illustrated by Virgil Partch

A New Bible for the 20th Century by Herbert Yahraes about the Revised Standard Bible

Sea Power’s Sunday Punch by John F. Floberg and illustrated by Fred Freeman

Progress Report in the War Against Cancer by Ben Merson

Football Funnies by Furman Bisher and Edwin Pope and illustrated by Willard Mullin

“Call Me Mamie” by Helen Worden Erskine about Mamie Eisenhower

How to Fly a Saucer – Collier’s Color Camera – Color Photos from Paramount’s War of the Worlds

Looks Easy on Sunday by Elizabeth Coulson

America Stops for the Coffee Hour by Andrew Tully and illustrated by Harry Devlin

Mountainless Moutaineers by Leonard A. Stevens

What’s Justice in a Damage Suit? by Bill Fay

FICTION:

“Bigmouth Number Thirteen” by William R. Scott and illustrated by Arthur Sarnoff

“Hot Pepper” by Hazel Heckman and illustrated by Frank McCarthy

“The Way You Remember” by Hamlen Hunt and illustrated by Tran Mawicke

“A Tough Game to Beat” — The Short Short Story — by William Holder and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff

“The Draw at Arroyo Blanco” by Harry Sylvester and illustrated by Dom Lupo

PLUS:

Week’s Mail

48 States of Mind by Walter Davenport

The Tardy Wife by Don Tobin

Editorial

Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features color photograph of Dorothy Kirsten

1942/06/06 — Cover design by Al Moore

Contents as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

“Unity or Else” by Frederick Hazlitt Brennan and illustrated by Harry Beckhoff

“The Sweet Indulgence” by Mona Gardner and illustrated by Martha Sawyers

“Take the Day Off” by Dick Dorrance and illustrated by Mario Cooper

“There’ll Never Be Another” the Short Short Story by Richard English and illustrated by John Holmgren

SERIAL STORIES:

“Flight to the Sun” — Part 3 of 10 — by James Aldridge and illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

“Trial by Marriage” — Conclusion — by Vereen Bell and illustrated by Elmore Brown

ARTICLES

To Tokyo, Dammit! by John R. Morris, our Air Force in India knows where it’s going, now

Maps for a New World by George T. Renner

Eat and Look Young by Henry Schacht and illustrated by George De Zayas

Drive Does It by Craig Wood

Our Fighting Men

A Switch in Lullabies a poem by Grantland Rice

The Army Needs Your Skill

Radio Hawkear by Frank J. Taylor

A Foal and His Mommy

Water Witchery by Bud Sawin

PLUS:

Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster

Wing Talk

Editorials: Who’s Got the Extra Cash? – Fighting Men’s Votes – The Black Market

Philco Corp ad with large black & white illustration, “The Beginning of the End”, by Arthur Szyk, featuring Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito skulking off with American workers in the background

1941/06/21 — Cover design by Vernon Grant

Contents as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

“Ten Thousand Miles to Denver” by Michael Foster and illustrated by C.C. Beall

“As Pretty As Can Be” by William Fay and illustrated by Earl Cordrey

“Granny and the Nanny Goat of Truth” by George Sessions Perry and illustrated by Harry Beckoff

“One Quick, Clean Stroke” the Short Short Story by Winston Byrnes and illustrated by Elmore Brown

SERIAL STORIES:

“Dina Cashman” — Part 1 of 13 — by Kathleen Norris and illustrated by Walter C. Klett

“Lady in Amour” — Part 8 of 9 — by Octavus Roy Cohen and illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

ARTICLES

Japan Through the Looking Glass by Alice-Leone Moats and illustrated by Michael Berry

Glorious Gloria by Bill Davidson is about Gloria Callen, with color photo

Our New Army

Miles of Mushrooms by Mona Gardner

One-Man Team by Bob Considine is about 4-time minor league MVP Mike Ryba, who’s just reached the bigs with the Red Sox at age 34

PLUS:

Wing Talk

Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster

Editorials: This War Is No Joke

1940/08/31 — Cover design by Alan Foster

Contents as follows:
SHORT STORIES:

“No Summer Love” by Richard English and illustrated by John Holmgren

“Friend of the Warden” by Harry Slyvester and illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

“I Cherish That Sentiment” by Kyle Crichton and illustrated by Earl Oliver Hurst, a baseball story with the main illustration showing several generic Brooklyn Dodgers players

“Gun Smoke” by Clifford Dowdey and illustrated by Donald Teague

“His Daily Bread” the Short Short Story by Henry Meade Williams and illustrated by Frank Street

SERIAL STORIES:

“The Patriotic Murders” — Part 5 of 9 — by Agatha Christie and illustrated by Mario Cooper

“Operation: Widow” — Conclusion — by William C. White and illustrated by George Howe

ARTICLES

What Happened to France — Part 2 of 5 — by Andre Maurois

Shell Game by Helen Hilcken, about the Private Life of the Lobster

Britain’s Labor Boss by Quentin Reynolds, about Ernest Bevin

The Bear Looks Over the Mountain by Jim Marshall

Tough On and Off by John Durant is about movie tough guys with color photo of Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney with ice cream cones

Fair and Warmer by Corey Ford and illustrated by Nala>

PLUS:

Keep Up With the World by Freling Foster

Editorials: Sparks Out, Please – Forget the Class Stuff – Prize Boner–1940

1939/03/11 — Cover art by Paul Shively.
Contents as follows:
Short Stories:

“Nine Until Three” by Quentin Reynolds & illustrated by Earl Cordrey

“Last Look” by William MacHarg & illustrated by Harry L. Timmins

Chance is an Enemy” by Frederick Nebel & illustrated by Ralph E. Entwistle

“The Wages of Sin-Splitter” by Roark Bradford & illustrated by William Meade Prince

The Short Short Story

“Love Letter” by Horatio Winslow & illustrated by Walter Klett

Serial Stories:

“The Green Angel” part 4 of 10 by George F. Worts & illustrated by Harry L. Timmins

“The Resounding Skies” part 8 of 10 by Laurence G. Blochman & illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

Articles

“Scared Dollars” by John T. Flynn with cartoons by D.R. Fitzpatrick

“All Wound Up” about spring hats by Sally Victor

“Fiery Little Flower” about Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia by George Britt

“As Simple as That” about Floncy Rice (Grantland’s daughter) on the screen by Frank Condon

“Horizontal Champions” by Dan Parker

“The Man Who Wouldn’t Be Pope” about drama in the Vatican by Thomas B. Morgan

Plus:

“Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster

Editorial: “Stop Mumbling”

Cartoons by Jay Irving, Kay Karaffa, Reamer Keller, A. John Kaunus, Jay Irving, John Milligan, Dick Shaw, Leonard Dove, Laurence Reynolds, Reamer Keller, George Hamilton Green, Hal Sherman, William Steig, John Ruge, Adolph Schus, Harry Haenigsen, Douglas Borgstedt

Notable Advertising includes: Auto-Lite Spark Plugs, International Trucks, De Soto, Pontiac, Remington Rand, “Blizzards to Order Help Build Better Cars” is a 2-page ad for Ford Motor Company, “Alphonse and Gaston see Coney Island” for Kellogg’s All-Bran, Nash Auto, Studebaker, “This is the Way to the New York World’s Fair” says Pennsylvania Railroad, “San Francisco 1939″ from Californians Inc, Gilette Blades, Old Gold Cigarettes with illustration by George Petty*, Budweiser, Lord Calvert ad on the inside back cover with color illustration by George Hughes, and finally a Camel Cigarettes ad on the back cover with record-holding woman parachute jumper Marie McMillin in a comic strip. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)

1939/02/04 — Cover art by Lawson Wood.
Contents as follows:
Short Stories:

“Glamor Boy” by Richard English & illustrated by Jon Whitcomb

“Bert Beal’s Daughter” by Henry Meade Williams & illustrated by Mario Cooper

“Efficiency Kid” by Hurd Barrett & illustrated by Robert Harris

The Short Short Story

“The Bride Looked Sad” by Quentin Reynolds with illustration by Walter Klett

Serial Stories:

“The Resounding Skies” part 3 of 10 by Laurence G. Blochman & illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

“Strange Honeymoon” part 9 of 10 by Octavus Roy Cohen & illustrated by Elmore Brown

Articles

“Sock’em vs. Stick’em” about basketball by Stanley Frank

“Brown and Yellow Bombers” about the future of war in the air by W.B. Courtney

“So Help Us” about misplaced actors by Joel Sayre & illlustrated by Earl Oliver Hurst

“Up She Goes” about ballet star Patricia Bowman by Dorothy Ducas

Plus:

“Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster

Editorial: “The War on Syphilis”

Cartoons by Gardner Rea, Gregory D’Alessio, Laurence Reynolds, R. Taylor, Gerald Green, Jay Irving, Fred Balk, William Steig, Leonard Dove

Notable Advertising includes: full-page ad for “Ginga Din” with Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen and Douglas Fairbanks Jr., “Its taste holds the answer” color Coca-Cola ad on the inside back cover, and a Lucky Strike Cigarettes ad on the back cover. (Note * means ad is less than a full page)

1936/02/29 — Cover design by Alan Foster

Contents as follows:

“The Invisible President” — Part I of a Fu Manchu story — by Sax Rohmer and illustrated by C.C. Beall

“The Wrong Job” by Laura Z. Hobson and illustrated by Walter C. Klett

“The Return of Father Mississippi” by Harris Dickson

“Bright Adventure” by Edward Shenton and illustrated by Harry Morse Meyers

“Keep Up With the World” by Freling Foster

“Singing Girl” by Kyle Crichton is about Jane Froman

“Life Begins So Soon” — Part V — by Bernard DeVoto and illustrated by James W. Earley

“The Hit That Missed” by Walter Duranty and illustrated by Michael

“Buying at a Profit” by Bertram B. Fowler and illustrated by William Steig

“The Professor’s Son” by Quentin Reynolds

“Delayed Action” — The Short Short Story — by Laurie York Erskine and illustrated by Herbert Morton Stoops

“The Boy Who Had a Hero” by Albert Richard Wetjan and illustrated by Courtney Allen

Editorial: Look at the Facts

Camel Cigarettes ad featuring Frank Buck

1931/07/25 — Cover illustrated by Joseph Farrelly

“The Queen’s Elephants” by Frank Condon and illustrated by James Montgomery Flagg

“Clothes Make the Man” the Short Short Story by Karl W. Detzer and illustrated by Adolph Treidler

“Good Times Knocking at the Door” by William G. Shepherd and illustrated by C.H. Sykes

“The Night Bird Flies” by Harold Lamb and illustrated by C.B. Falls

“Take My Chair” by Stephen Morehouse Avery and illustrated by Loren Stout

“The Medicine Girl” – Part 4 by P.G. Wodehouse and illustrated by Wallace Morgan

Cook It Cold by Betty Thornley Stuart and illustrated by Irving Nurick

“The Wrong Wife” — Part 7 — by Arthur Somers Roche and illustrated by John H. Crosman

You Can’t Kill a Pitcher by Grantland Rice looks at Lefty Grove and George Earnshaw, with a photo of each

“A Captain’s Life” by Commodore Herbert Hartley and W.B. Courtney

“Sir Walter, Showman” by Sol Metzger is a short article about golfer Walter Hagen with a small photo

“Jungle Business” by Frank Buck with Edward Anthony and illustrated by Herman Rountree

White House Work by The Gentleman at the Keyhole

How Would You Play It? by Milton C. Work

Keep Up With the World! by Freling Foster

The Battle Lines Are Drawn – Editorial

Notable advertising in this issue includes: color ad for Lucky Strikes on the inside front cover, illustrated color ad for Milky Way, Barbarsol ad featuring photo of actor Ben Lyon, illustrated color ad for Chesterfields, slightly over 1/8th of a page ad for Flit with Dr. Seuss illustration

1918/06/15 — Cover illustrated by Herbert Paus

On the title page is a large photo “Tending the Wounded Under Fire”

Why Are We At Peace With Bulgaria? By Demetra Vaka

Our Dauntless Destroyer Boys by James B. Connolly

“The Right Sort of Man” by Lucian Cary and illustrated by Arthur G. Dove

Coats of Many Colors — a page of photos showing camouflage suits in action

“From Baseball to Boches” — Seventh Inning — by H.C. Witwer and illustrated by F.R. Gruger and Arthur William Brown

Collier’s Editorials

Let ‘Er Buck by William Slavens McNutt appears to be about ranchers/cowboys taming and training horses for the military

Tomato Catchup 5 Cents Extra by Octavus Roy Cohen

Saving Days Against the U-Boats by William Heyliger

Will Germany Collapse? by Thomas H. Dickinson

Small Iver Johnson ad “He didn’t forget to protect us” with illustration of woman looking at photo of her husband in uniform

1945/09/10 — Cover featuring “Auto Worker” is credited to William C. Shrout

Contents of this issue are as follows:

THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

U.S. Occupies Japan – 13 pages include MacArthur’s Arrival

Editorial: Peace in Asia

King Leopold’s Family

Black Markets Boom in Berlin

Lilly Dache Packs for Paris

ARTICLES:

Nijinsky in Vienna by William Walton

As We May Think by Vannevar Bush

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

United Automobile Workers

MODERN LIVING:

House for Texas

The French Look

ART:

Portrait of Sylvia Sidney by Fletcher Martin (color)

Hudson River School of Painters – with 4 pages of color reproductions

MOVIES

“Uncle Harry” with Geraldine Fitzgerald, George Sanders, Ella Raines

SPORTS:

Grownups Spin Tops

SCIENCE:

Plant Cancer

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

Speaking of Pictures: Germany’s Fantastic Secret Weapons

LIFE’s Reports: “Bottoms Up” in China, by Lieut. Thomas P. Ronan

LIFE Goes Swordfishing

Miscellany: Seabees Give Waves a Party

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

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

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 an Einstein?Sir Winston’s Hideaway – From Sicily Comes Word that Churchill’s New History Will Appear in LIFE

Fiesta Fun and Fire in Old Valencia – Spanish City Joyously Burns Statues It Built

Death of a Genius – His Fourth Dimension, Time, Overtakes Albert Einstein

Reading the Bible, Cover to Cover – Oklahoma Baptists Read Through Entire Scriptures in a 79-Hour Marathon

The Peak Year for Pink – Pastel Shows Up Stron in Male Wardrobes and Around the House

Precocious Planters – Camp Fire Girls of Wichita, Kansas Replace Their City’s Dying Trees

Ev’rythin’s Up to Date – “Oklahoma” Is Finall Filmed and in Todd-AO

Old Madonna Grows Older – Restorer Uncovers a Fifth Century Painting

Sequel – Little German Girl Befriended Three Years Ago by a Kindly Congressman Becomes American Citizen

Medical Discovery Is Put to Work – Mass Polio Inoculations Begin as Nation Pays Thanks to Dr. Salk

Otto, Real and Crazy – A Prankish German Pianist’s Ragtime Takes Over U.S. Juke Boxes

A Reptile That Really Gets Ruffled – The Australian Frilled Lizard Makes a Debut in the Bronx

Museum Director’s Choice – Frederick B. Robinson, of Springfield, Mass. Museum of Fine Arts Selects a Luminous Chardin Still Life

The Baronial Busches of St. Louis – The Brewery Family and Its Exuberant Way of Life – A Photographic Essay by Margaret Bourke-White

How Reds Wreck a Free University – Communists Thwart a Famous Scholar’s Effort to Set Up a Citidel for Liberty – LIFE’s Article by Lin Yutang

Pulling a Big Oar at Cornell – Overabundance of Manpower Gives Crew Coach a Pleasant Problem

Salute to “Sam” – U.S. Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Johnson’s “Dictionary”

Miscellany – Modern House? Or Fire Escape?

Full-page color ad for Post Toasties includes cartoon image of pitchman Roy Rogers

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 – A Montanan Moves His Herd 60 Stormy Miles

Shiny Showplace for Studies – At the Ancient University of Mexico Students Now Work on a Dazzling Campus of Color and Light – Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon

A Stockpile of Might for U.S. in Europe – Photographed for LIFE by Michael Rougier

ARTICLES:

What Drives Olympic Stars by Marhsall Smith with illustration by Willard Mullin

“Day of Infamy” – The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Reveals How Japanese Admirals, Spies, Airmen and Sailors Sweated Out a Mission to Rock the World by Walter Lord – takes up all or part of 11 pages

SPORTS:

Old Passer Ha His Fling at Last – Giants Charlie Conerly with some Help Becomes a Football Hero

TELEVISION:

A High-Living Pooch is a Durable Star – Lassie ‘s Son, Lassie, Gets $100,000 a Year

FASHION:

Long, Vivid Wraps Glow on Till Dawn – Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks

SCIENCE:

A Plastic Igloo for an Eskimo

African Tribal Tribute to a Great Ethnologist

THEATER:

Double Helpings of Superb Acting – Leighton and Portman Are Magnificent in Four Roles in “Separate Tables”

RELIGION:

A Basilica for an Iowa Town – Energetic Congregation in Dyersville, Ohio Beomces a “Pope’s Church”

BUSINESS:

Giveaway Hideaway – A Brewery Offers Cash or Island to a Contest Winner

MEDICINE:

A New Device Gives Rare, Revealing Look Into a Beating Heart

CLOSE-UP:

An Eastern Star Looks West – Japan’s Most Popular Movie Actress, Machiko Kyo, Reaches the U.S. Screen

MOVIES:

A Rainmaking Rogue Brings Happiness to All in Fine Film

PARTY:

Revelry Celebrates a Royal European Match

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Speaking of Pictures: A Birth Under Water

Letters to the Editors

Miscellany: Restraint of Trade

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 Sail – The Corps Bans Families from Japan

Bronze Honor for Justice Brandeis – A University Hails Its Namesake

EDITORIALS:

In a World Jungle, Uneasy Thanks

In Crisis, A Call for Greatness

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

Egypt’s Eras of Splendor – A Legacy of Art Reflects the Magnificence of Its Culture, The Genius of Its Thought, and the Power of Its Empire — Part 7 — “The Epic of Man” — Text by Lincoln Barnett and Photographed for LIFE by Walter Sanders, James Whitmore and Yale Joel

The Far-Off Site of the Olympics – The Handsome, Wealthy Metropolis of Melbourne Warms Up for the Games – Photographed for LIFE by John Dominis

ARTICLE:

Peril for Poland’s New Leader, Wladyslaw Gomulka by Jozef Swiatlo, who arrested him and was his jailer

TELEVISION:

TV Cameras Resort to Tricks to Get Jack Up the Beanstalk

That Awful Eloise Comes to Life – Kay Thompson’s “Eloise” Is Adapted for TV

MOVIES:

Brilliant Return for Ingrid Bergman in “Anastasia”

ANIMALS:

High-Flying Hybrid – AN Energetic Mule Crashes the Horsy Set

EDUCATION:

A Science Road Show Wows High School Pupils

SPORTS:

Twin Prize for Football – College Vie for Schoolboy Brothers Mike and Marlin McKeever

THEATER:

America Gets a British Feast of Shakespeare – Old Vic Players Act a Variety of Roles

FASHION:

Evening Chiffons Blow In

PEOPLE:

Candid Look for British Royal Children

CLOSE-UP:

Latest Quest of a Busy Educator, Harvard’s Pusey

ART:

Paintings in Planes – Roberto Fasola’s “poliepipedi” Have a New York Showing

PARTY:

Banjo Jam at Yale

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Letters to the Editors

Speaking of Pictures: Rhythmic Colors of a Symphony

Miscellany: Cake Sheds a Tier