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 shocks the world – rioters rage at the rape of Hungary
After a watch by night, a miraculous mine rescue
A Look at the World’s Week
Celebration for Seretse – Bechuanaland chieftain and his white wife are home again as private citizens
EDITORIALS:
To the heroes of Hungary
What the voters said
PICTORIAL ESSAYS:
New vistas of the road – in America’s matchless autumn panorama a great highway program gathers speed
Country Music’s prosperity – Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel – 8 pages of photos, 4 in color. Grand Ole Opry “family portrait” includes Johnny Cash
ARTICLES:
Names, places, and pay-offs – by Wes Santee. The miler whose suspension brought the year’s biggest sports controversy tells of the “brown envelope” system
The Curse of Cromwell by Sir Winston Churchill, in “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” – Eight pages of color on an ardent King’s lovely conquests, court and courntry life and the great fire – takes up all or part of 19 pages, several in color
SCIENCE:
The oldest thing alive – bristlecone pines in California are 4,000 years old
ANIMALS:
Triple-decker doghouse for some high-living Afghans
MOVIES:
Fearful female on the run – “Julie” is a terror tale of flight from a fiend
AVIATION:
Russians build a better chute
A Navy balloon’s record rise and perilous drop
THEATER:
Eugene O’Neill ‘s autobiographical play “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” reaches the U.S. stage
SPORTS:
Soomething had to crack in battle of unbeaten football giants — Tennessee beats Georgia Tech
CLOSE-UP:
The hectic daily rat race of Master Cartoonist Herblock
FASHION:
Men’s shirts don bold and colorful fronts
PARTY:
A Stately welcome to society as Atlanta debutantes make their bow
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 Presley with Natalie Wood and another shot showing Marilyn Monroe shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth
Magnetic Margaret’s African mission: on a troubled continent Britain’s pretty princess finds colorful evidence of loyalty to the crown – Photographed for LIFE by Mark Kauffman – 7 pages
Junk jalopies form a jetty near Topeka
EDITORIAL:
Edne’s tragic blunder
ARTICLES:
A tribute to vaudeville’s golden era – a great comic in his last book fondly recounts the hilarious legends of the show circuit – By Fred Allen – 11 pages, mostly half pages of text, half of advertising
High Venture and Civil War by Sir Winston Churchill, Third Part of Volume 2 of “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” – takes up all or part of 18 pages
TELEVISION:
A fast-rising schoolgirl – a Chicago 12-year-old is a hit as mistress of ceremonies on her own TV show
BOOKS:
An unpopular best seller “Peyton Place,” Grace Metalious’ novel, has made her unloved in Gilmanton, N.H.
ANIMALS:
Rare retriever – a hunting dog takes care of cripples
MOVIES:
In “The Ten Commandments” Cecil B. DeMille , Hollywood’s master showman, films anew the story of the Exodus
BUSINESS:
You too can blow up the world: manufacturers try new tricks to make globes more graphic
THEATER:
Wise, wacky “Auntie Mame” – Rosalind Russell is absolutely perfect in Broadway version of best selling book
FASHION:
Paris in a department store
ARMY:
The Army digs a faster foxhole
MODERN LIVING:
How to square flattop hair
A brainy toy’s tricks
CLOSE-UP:
A first lady minister in robes of a new role
MEDICINE:
Pets make a hospital happy
SPORTS:
Tennessee family has a potential All-American, a successful coach and four other stars
PARTY:
Gay gathering in a gallery at a Providence, R.I. museum
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Speaking of Pictures: Scenes by Dramatic Diva – Maria Callas
Letters to the Editors
Miscellany: Sure-Footed Scholarship
Pan-Am ad on inside front cover features color artwork Master Pilot John Mattis by Norman Rockwell
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 of Segregation” Part 1 – In the first of a new series LIFE shows how the Negro came from Africa to slavery in America and how he enriched and troubled his new land. Text by Robert Wallace – Includes 3-page fold-out illustration captioned “A Coffle of Freight for Yankee Slavers” by Stevan Dohanos, plus other artwork
ARTICLE:
Louis B. Seltzer , a great editor, tells of the poor but happy boyhood which formed background for newspaper career
FASHION:
A hint of hemline upheaval – newest length by Dior jogs the Paris showings
ART: A bath for a god – a Buddhist carving in Boston gets spruced up for TV
SPORTS:
Lew Hoad ‘s bid for a rare grand slam in tennis
PARTY:
Skittish time for novice water skiers – young campers take only 14 minutes to learn fun of a trick sport
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Speaking of Pictures: history of an ostrich hatching
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 Visitor’s Report By the Chief of TIME-LIFE Washington Bureau
5,000 Girls Scouts Rough It on First National Roundup at a “Primitive Encampment”
EDITORIALS:
The U.S. Spirit: A Moral Creed
The U.S. Spirit: A Will to Risk
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
Everybody Gets In the Acting: Five Amateur Productions Of the Same Play in Five Cities Show How Footlight Fever is Sweeping the U.S. — Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel
ARTICLE:
“My Confession” – The First of Three Installments on the Romantic Mexican War Memoirs of a Solider-Artist
RELIGION:
Cutting into Cryptic Copper – A Professor Saws Secrets Out of the 2,000-Year-Old Dead Sea Scrolls
FASHION: Mad Hats for Elegantly Simple Fall Dresses
MEDICINE:
Artificial Suns for Surgery at St. Lo
ANIMALS:
New Deal for a Rare Seal
SPORTS:
A ‘Copter Ride in a Motorless Boat
ART:
A Cast Lady Cast Off – Texas Bank Rejects Zorach’s Sculpture
MILITARY AFFAIRS:
Fraternity of Valor – Britain Honors Holders of 100-Year-Old Victoria Cross
PARTY:
Fifth and Last in LIFE’s Series on How to Give Children’s Parties Tells Parents to Let 15-Year-Olds Run Their Own Show
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Speaking of Pictures: Castles in the Sand of Italy
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 Big Tops Which Have Been Struck
Pinch of Steel Strike Is Felt in Other, Varied Industries
Rome City Hall Has a Free-for-All Over a Mayoralty Election With Poor Giulio Near to a TKO
EDITORIALS:
Action Is Needed on Air Safety
Nixon is Making Sense and Friends
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:
My Garden, by H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor – Photographed for LIFE by Frank Scherschel
A Weekend of Woe for a Father Named Joe – Joe Gordon Gives HIs Wife the Weekend Off and Bravely Takes Charge of Twin Babies – Photographed for LIFE by Joe Scherschel
ARTICLE:
A Debate, Pro and Con – Subject: Richard M. Nixon by Robert Coughlan
FASHION:
London Fashions, Models Wow Drab Russia
MODERN LIVING:
A Plate That Flies for Small Fry
ART:
Museum Director’s Choice – Denver’s Otto Karl Bach Picks the Carved Ancestor of an Indian Chief
MOVIES:
24-year-old Copy of Cooper – Tony Perkins Takes After His Movie Father, Gary
ENTERTAINMENT:
Old Stars–New Steps – Actors Perform Out of Character in a London Revue
PARTY:
Wedding Wine for Marilyn – She Becomes Mrs. Miller in a Simple Religious Ceremony – 3 full pages of photos of Marilyn Monroe in wedding veil and gown as she marries playwright Arthur Miller, all black & white
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. financiers with pipeline challenges government of Canada
A Look at the World’s Week
Satchmo is a smash on Africa’s Gold Coast featuring Louis Armstrong
Communist stooge Nenni becomes a power in Italy
Segregated Negroes introduce bus stop protest into another city, Tallahassee
EDITORIAL:
Advice to and from writers
PICTORIAL ESSAY:
The story of the mighty Yangtze – John Hersey ‘s new novel “A Single Pebble” is born of a voyage that he and Photographer Dmitri Kessel made for LIFE on China’s Great River – 10 pages
CLOSE-UP:
Averell Harriman, the dark horse with the best handlers, by James Keough; Third in LIFE’s series on Democratic candidates
ARTICLE:
The mystery and misery of the aching back by Ernest Havemann
EDUCATION:
Wake Forest College moves 110 miles to a new $19 million campus
MOVIES: There are no words at all in Gene Kelly ‘s “Invitation to the Dance”
Girl on the eve of a triumph: Carroll Baker shows her dramatic skill in making “Baby Doll”
AGRICULTURE:
English Farmer rigs upa self-steering tractor that farms alone
MODERN LIVING:
An amphibious trailer is at home on the highway and in the water
THEATER:
Four-faced Hamlet – In a brilliant production by Baylor University drama students, Shakespeare’s hero is played by a quartet of actors
FASHION:
California style on the backlots – Clothes travel around film’s imitation world – Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks
ART:
Sculpture on the rocks – a Greek-born artist finds form and faces in orginary stones
MEDICINE:
New cigarette – cancer link – study shows that as smoking rate rises, so does lung damage
MUSIC:
“T-r-a-n-s-fusion” is a gruesome new song hit
PARTY:
Part IV in the LIFE series on how to give children’s parties; boys and girls of 12 whoop it up together
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors
Speaking of Pictures: visual aids in think session help Navy men to be creative
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 Secretary McKay, Who Quit to Fight Senator Wayne Morse, Finds Oregon Primary Fight Is Tough
Grace and Rainier’s Official Wedding Picture — In Color
EDITORIALS:
Danger – Pettifoggers At Work
Step Toward State of Alaska
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:
The Grand Canyon ‘s Hidden Wonders Are Revealed on a Long Trek Into Places Few Have Ever Seen — Photographed for LIFE by A.Y. Owen
Mellon’s Miracle – The Head of Pittsburgh’s First Family Leads HIs City Into a Renaissance
ARTICLES:
Genteel Queen of Crime, Whodunit Writer Agatha Christie, Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder by Nigel Dennis
Henry Wallace Describes HIs Thoughts on Communism and Peace and And Tells Why He Supports Eisenhower as the Man to Avoid and “Atomic Abyss”
MILITARY AFFAIRS:
What to Do About the Draft? LIFE Presents a Guide for Young Men Facing Military Service and For Their Parents
MOVIES:
New Star Cathy Dunn , 7, Sees Her Movie, “Lovers and Lollipops,” With Her Friend, Veteran Star, Richie Andrusco, 10
MEDICINE:
A 49-Year-Old Veteran Is Chief of a Salt Lake Nursing Service and Opens Up a New Career for Men
NIGHTCLUBS:
Ex-Movie Queen Constance Bennett, 51, Rocks and Rolls in Dungarees to Kid the Teen-Agers
SEQUEL:
Korean Orphan, “the Boy Who Wouldn’t Smile,” Finds a Happy Home in the U.S.
FASHION:
An Old Master Is Back In Style – Gainsborough Girls Grace Parties Again
MODERN LIVING:
A Pipsqueak Sailboat Costs $30 to Build
EDUCATION:
The Gifted High School Students Who Won Big Scholarships Display Varied Talents
SPORTS:
Crooner Frankie Laine and Golfer Gene Littler Hit the Jackpot in the Las Vegas Calcutta Golf Pool
HISTORY:
Biggest Collection of U.S. Swords
PARTIES:
Visit to Texas Ranch Gives Foreign Ambassadors An Unstarched View of the U.S.
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Speaking of Pictures: Big-Scale Manhattan Model
Letters to the Editors
Miscellany: Peggy the Portable Pony
Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features small sepia headshot photos of 20 Baseball Stars including Ted Kluszewski, Richie Ashburn, Warren Spahn, Yogi Berra, Early Wynn, Harvey Haddix, and others
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 was no ball for Bulganin and Khruschchev in Britain
EDITORIALS:
How to be right AND President
The luck of the British
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
Japan in the spring glows with a soft and subtle beauty – Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon – 16 pages, all color!
ARTICLES:
Athletes tell how illicit pay-offs destroy the amateur stock by Jack Newcombe – includes photos of Wes Santee – Elmore Harris – Roscoe Browne – Jim Herbert and Johnny Fulton
The end of a dark age ushers in new dangers – liquidation of Stalinism at Soviet’s 20th Congress underlines and insidious drive to win free men by Whittaker Chambers
SPORTS:
First big league game for eight boys – Seven rookies are nervous and to one it’s just a game – 3 pages include photo of rookies Luis Aparicio – Charley Neal – Frank Robinson – Tito Francona – Jerry Lumpe – Whitey Herzog – Don Buddin – Danny Kravitz
MUSIC: Howling Hillbilly success – Elvis Presley ‘s complaint becomes a top pop tune – 1 page, 2 b&w photos of Elvis
ANIMALS:
High-flying haylift brings help to hard-luck horse stranded on the Continental Divide
MOVIES:
Kind dice and death – in “The Bold and the Brave” GI Mickey Rooney wins…and loses
EDUCATION:
Academic private eye – in Wisconsin school TV sites in as a disciplinarian
FASHION:
Barbard College sophomore Anne Morris advises the buyer at New York’s Bergdorf Goodman
SCIENCE:
The squared egg – new plastic shell is tougher and handier
INDUSTRY:
Drilling offshore, Britain finds a rich underwater source of coal
ART:
Jazz herlps sculptors dig that clay – a Hollywood art class models to music
MILITARY AFFAIRS:
Golden domes in the Arctic – DEW line radar stations spring up to defend the U.S.
MEDICINE:
Daily gift of life – student blood donors keep a California hemophiliac in school
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Speaking of Pictures: a massed bird migration is part of photographic display honoring Margaret Bourke-White
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 Isaac Don Levine – parts of 4 pages
The tragic ordeal of Platoon 71 puts Marine training under fire
Peace comes at end of bloody week in Holy Land as U.N. envoy exerts West’s pressure
A British auto racer is spilled to fiery death
Monaco mania – Cartoonist Rowland Emett depicts the little country’s prewedding delirium
A Look at the World’s Week
EDITORIALS:
A letter to Khruschchev
Moral dilemma on campus
PICTORIAL ESSAYS:
Prodigous music maker – the world honors Mozart on his 200th Anniversary – Photographed for LIFE by Gjon Mili – 14 pages, most in color
Clubfooted boy from Dominican Republic gets new feet and a home in the U.S. – Photographed for LIFE by Joern Gerdts
ARTICLE:
Star’s legend in the making – Jayne Mansfield talks dumb but heads for the top by Ernest Havemann – 7 pages (5 are half-pages though)
THEATER:
Frank Loesser’s “The Most Happy Fella” is a musical landmark
SPORTS: Swimmer Orrin Nordstrom wear gloves, shoes while training
ENTERTAINMENT:
Beauty for a big top – a French artist decks circus in flowery finery – 4 pages in color by Marcel Vertes
SCIENCE:
“In frogs…the universe” – Jean Rostand, son of the famous playwright, finds a rich life in his scientific studies
MOVIES:
Alfred Hitchcock does a hair-raiser in a concert hall
Marlon Brando makes up like an Okinawan for “Teahouse” role
RELIGION:
Church for the deaf conducts its services in sign language
ANIMALS:
Opo the dolphin has a brief summer of happiness taking New Zealand swimmers for a ride
MODERN LIVING:
New loot for children – a new book tells where and how to acquire 1,200 gifts for the asking
TELEVISION:
Man bites like dog as Lassie and Perry Como get TV awards
ART:
Cult of the kitchen sink – British emphasize the sordid
MUSIC:
Brother Matthew at the jam session – a great saxophonist leaves the monastery briefly for a jazz performance
MEDICINE:
A nbew technique for collecting blood plasma increases production by giving the corpuscles back to the donors
PARTY:
En route to Mexico for her wedding, Grace Kelly plays hard at The Game – Photographed by Howell Conant – 4 pages, b&w, of Grace Kelly playing charades, 13 photos total
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors
Speaking of Pictures: three miffed misses yearn for other roles
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 understanding boss gives pros fits in the Masters featuring Ken Venturi
A Look at the World’s Week
Odyssey of a daft raft – landlubbers trying to outdo “Kon-Tiki” take a long Pacific voyage to nowehere
EDITORIAL:
Is the income tax just?
PICTORIAL ESSAY:
Man shapes his environment – the domestication of plants and animals gave man his greatest victory in battle against nature — Part 4 of “The Epic of Man” – Text by Lincoln Barnett, Photographs for LIFE by David Douglas Duncan and Frank Scherschel. Paintings by Alton S. Tobey
ARTICLE:
Glubb Pasha tells how our Middle East enemies work – Arab agitators abetted by Reds, says British general ousted from Jordan, imperil the West’s position
FASHION:
Bright spot on a bad day – spring brings a deluge of raincoats in new styles and gay prints
EDUCATION: Parents’ schooldays – a Maryland school puts mom and pop through three days of their children’s curriculum
TRANSPORTATION:
From our horrible highways – Artist Basil Wolverton draws cars for maniac autoists
MOVIES:
Rotten business in the ring – a wallping film tells of the fixed fights and phony build-up of a boxer – About The Harder They Fall
SCIENCE:
A turkey that never had a father – Agriculture Department scientist studies hens that produce chicks without any assistance from toms
MODERN LIVING:
Strugn up for sitting down – a make-it-yourslf chair has a seat woven of clothesline
MEDICINE:
An official warning makes things hotter for Hoxsey’s cancer clinics
SPORTS:
Bulls baffle brave Bertha – Colombian girl takes a beating but keeps coming back for more
NATURE:
Cannibal snail gets a job – A tiny African mollusk is imported to fight a citrus pest
PARTY:
A wistful reunion at Pickfair – Mary Pickford gathers famous film figures of 1920s – Includes photos of Pickford with Francis X. Bushman, Antonio Moreno, plus the Duncan Sisters, Anna Q. Nilsson with Harold Lloyd and Annette Kellerman, William Boyd with Jack Oakie and Russell Simpson, Hedda Hopper and Marion Davies
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors
Speaking of Pictures: a swimsuit that really gets around
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 Fritz Goro
Snowfall Samaritans rescue a mailman in New York Storm
EDITORIAL:
The Resurrection – An event that beggars comment
ARTICLE:
Barons Against the King — Part 3 of Volume 1 (“The Birth of Britain”) in Sir Winston Churchill’s “History of the English-Speaking Peoples.” Plus a portfolio of paintings by contemporary artists on medieval life
PICTORIAL ESSAYS:
Skillful arrangements of simple flowers create grand effects – Painted for LIFE by Mary Faulconer
Tireless, Talky Teen-agers Keep Telephone Lines Toiling – Photographed for LIFE by Grey Villet
FASHION:
Designer Luis Estevez – A one-year wonder and his necklines
SPORTS: San Francisco Dons set a basketball victory record the easy way – Photos include Bill Russell and K.C. Jones
RADIO AND TV:
Fans and Friends Mourn Fred Allen
RELIGION:
Catholics Revise Easter with ancient rites and modern notes
YOUTH:
Kansas City children cut capers in a shopping center zoo
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 to the End
No Sign of Peace for Autherine
A Mystery Monster Causes SOme Ripples in Henley-on-Thames
EDITORIALS:
Three Imports of Ike’s Decision
“Go slow, now”
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:
The Sands of the Desert Turn Gold – Well-Heeled Visitors in the Southwest Enrich Scottsdale, Arizona, as native styles are embellished – Photographed in color for LIFE by Nina Leen
A Memo to the Girls – LIFE Shows leap-year husband-seekers some eligible specimens of U.S. bacherlorhood and places where they abound, such as Caspar, Wyoming
ARTICLE:
Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief – Arthur Barry, great second-story man, looks back on a $10 million life in crime by Robert Wallace
MILITARY AFFAIRS:
Set to strike in the shadows: the U.S. Army trains a special corps of many-skilled men to operate behind enemy lines
SCIENCE: Tiny plastic lens is promising new solution for eye cataracts
MODERN LIVING:
In colorful models Cleveland shows how a city fights decay
NATURE:
Horace the housebroken hare enjoys his Dublin house
SPORTS:
The world’s biggest serve: smashing triumphs over Trabert prove Pancho Gonzalez is best in tennis
ART:
English sculptor uses menbers of his congregation as models for a church facade
THEATER:
Eugene O’Neill ‘s last tragedy, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” produced in Stockholm, tells the playwright’s own family story
FASHION:
U.S. Men Gets Recapped: Slimmed-Down Sports Headgear Shows Up in Town
MUSIC:
A 23-year-old Canadian, Glenn Gould, looms as the Continent’s most astonishing young pianist
PARTY:
Turnout for a top Italian – President Giovanni Gronchi whirls through four days in Washington
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 Bus Boycott – Includes small photos of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
Greek Voters Stave Off Communist Comeback in Close Win for the West
A 16-Story Scoop, World’s Largest, Rolls to Work in Ohio
Failure of Faith Leads a Florida Faith Healer to Trouble
EDITORIAL:
The New Communist Line
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:
An Age of Guilded Opulence – Part 8 of “America’s Arts and Skills” Shows How Vigor Expanded Victorian Taste – Photographed for LIFE by Bradley Smith
A Lovely Girl Tries to Catch Up With Her Runaway Career – Kim Novak moves uncertainly in a new world of movie fame – Photographed for LIFE by Leonard McCombe
ARTICLES:
A Letter to the North – William Faulkner , the South’s foremost writer, warns on integration: “Stop Now, for a Moment”
The Agonizing Odyssey of Two People in Love – A Young Chinese Couple Battle U.S. Immigration Restrictions for the right to be Together Again by William Brinkley
FASHION:
Waists at new high: Empire silhouette breaks out again
SPORTS: Winter diver “saves” himself in an ice-covered lake
World champ at last, Skater Carol Heiss cries at Garmisch
ANIMALS:
Latchkey for bachelor cat leaves Wisconsin owner undisturbed
EDUCATION:
Westchester Grammar School Dramatists Invent Their Own Productions
THEATER:
David Wayne as an incorrigible saint in Broadway’s new “Ponder Heart” hilariously disrupts a community
MODERN LIVING:
Electronic oracle charts the value of home insulation
MUSIC:
New teen-tune hits are based on out-of-date styles
SCIENCE:
A Peeping Tom device makes light of the night
TRANSPORTATION:
Houston Has a One-Track Hanging Train
PARTY:
How to Give Children’s Parties: Part 2 – Using LIFE’s Part Rules, a Connecticut Mother finds way to success is to keep the guests moving – Photographed for LIFE by Walter Sanders
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors
Speaking of Pictures: A Leap for Life, a Lunge for Lunch
Miscellany: Screams in the Sky
2-page color ad — “Norman Rockwell Says Pan American Was My Magic Carpet Around the World” with 8 small color Rockwell illustrations surrounding the text on the pages
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 California towns say thank you to 4,000 GIs who saved them from total flood ruin
EDITORIAL:
The Real Farm Problem
PICTORIAL ESSAYS:
The Growing of Society – as the earth warmed at the end of the Ice Age, man set up communities on the sea and lake shore — Part 3 of The Epic of Man – Text by Lincoln Barnett
The World of Pooh Lives On — A.A. Milne, who died last month, leaves his magic to all childhood – 6-1/2 pages
ARTICLE:
How to ease the burdens of the world’s most burdensome job: the President’s illness points up the need to free his office from archaic superstructure and endless protocol – by Robert Coughlan
FASHION:
Dressed Up With Shorts – Palm Beach Society Helps Informal Outfits Off to a Sylish Start
MODERN LIVING: A Treasury of Old Tubbery – Display bares man’s quest fr cleanliness dating back to 500 B.C.
THEATER:
Movie gangster Edward G. Robinson returns triumphantly to Broadway as a lovelorn widower
SPORTS:
Champion toy poodle wins the Westminster Dog Show top prize with his elegance and beauty
PARTY:
High glee at a political jubilee – Leader Hugh Gaitskell is life of party at big Labor Celebration
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 Welcome for Old Friend Anthony Eden and Joins HIm in a Pledge for Peace
Perry Como ‘s Rapid Rise Arouses Gleason’s Network — And Jackie Gleason
An 8-year-old French Prodigy Settles a Furor By Writing a Poem
EDITORIAL:
A Hole in NATO’s Dyke
ARTICLES:
The Recall of General MacArthur – In Part 4 of the Memoirs of Harry Truman tells of clashes over policy that led to the recall when “I could no longer tolerate his insubordination”
General MacArthur Makes His Reply – He accuses Truman of “fallible” memory and dodging a court of inquiry by waiting until now to bring up “this belated claim of insubordination”
PICTORIAL ESSAYS:
Lusty art of a Lost People – Italy’s Ancient Etruscans come boldly to life in the works they left behind – Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
What I like about Living in San Francisco – Written and Photographed for LIFE by N.R. Farbman
MOVIES:
Benny Goodman is heard but not seen as Steve Allen does the clarinetist’s story on film
ANIMALS: Wild beasts at a Milwaukee banquet help stock new zoo
THEATER:
Artist Jacob Landau ‘s Drawings Form a Colorful background for Photos of Margaret Sullavan ‘s double life in “Janus”
NIGHTCLUBS:
Her club contract keeps Dancer Neile Adams from a big job
PARTY:
Brazil’s New President has a public palace-warming
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Speaking of Pictures: Rare photograph shows assassination plotters present at Lincoln’s inaugeration
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 confined
Artists at Liberty
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:
Wild birds in flight – Color pictures made of 5,000th of a second by a Newark, N.Y. nurseryman win $5,000 first prize in LIFE–P.S.A. Essay Contest
First of a new LIFE series, how to gie children’s parties – celebrating the birthday of a 4-year-old, a Connecticut mother uses new rules drawn up by the director of the Gesell Institute and finds simplicity brings success – Photographed for LIFE by Nina Leen
ARTICLES:
Tough Decisions in Korean Crisis – in Part 3 of The Truman Memoirs the former President describes tense top-level debates in Washington while friction developed with MacArthur
The Commuters’ Rebellion – Patrick McGinnis, as the New Haven Railroad Chief achieves a Unique Peak of Unpopularity – By Robert Wallace
SEQUEL:
Social Note from Moscow – “Porgy” actors have Russian Wedding
FASHION: Switches on Secretary’s Suit – Eva Maria Saint’s outfit in a new movie makes a whole week’s wardrobe
THEATER:
“True Limit!” Studies the Dilemma of Korean Turncoats
SCIENCE:
A new three-dimensional fabric – Trilok, puts to use the shrinking tendencies of a plastic
ART:
Reginald Marsh – Swarming City Scenes by a “U.S. Hogarth” Go On a Year-Long Tour of the Country
MOVIE:
A new star enlivens film revival of musical favorite, “Carousel”
ARCHITECTURE:
A Japanese hotel, its sixth story on tracks, spins its top
MODERN LIVING:
Sculptor Noguchi transforms an African stool into modern furniture for teeterers
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 Farm Bill Tops Congressional List of Important Measures
Liberia Re-Inaugurates Tubman President as Russians Horn In
A Munificent Party-Giver Is Arrested for Embezzlement
EDITORIAL:
Truman, China and History
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:
The Living Immortals of the Silent Screen as Picked by the Movies’ Pioneers, Are Shown as They Were and Are – Then & Now Photos of Mary Pickford – Gloria Swanson – Harold Lloyd – Buster Keaton – Norma Talmadge – Mae Marsh – Ronald Colman – Richard Barthelmess – Lillian Gish – Charlie Chaplin – 8 pages, several large photos with a little text for each star
ARTICLE:
The Truman Memoirs, Volume 2 – In the First of Five Installments from “Years of Trial and Hope,” Harry Truman Tells Why He Sent George Marshall to China in 1946 and How the Mission Failed. With 9 Color Portraits of Truman’s Top Aides as They Appear Today
SEQUEL:
In a True Thriller Berlin Kidnap Victims Flee Red Grip
ART: Museum Director’s Choice – A Sunny Fleeting Moment by Mary Cassatt , picked by the head of Washington’s Corcoran Gallery
ANIMALS:
Kennel Club Recognizes, for First Time in a Decade, a New Breed of Dog – The Rough and REady Rhodesian Ridgeback
SPORTS:
U.S. Puts Best Foot Forward With Two Pretty Olympic Skaters – Carol Heiss and Tenley Albright
FASHION:
Bare Midriffs Are Back as Spring Buyers Snap Up New Designs
THEATER:
Thornton Wilder ‘s “Matchmaker” Blends Hokum and Wisdom Into Funniest Fracas on Broadway
SCIENCE:
New X-Ray Device Uses Powder to Take Detailed Photographs
PARTY:
Seattle Bus Riders Get Free Rides, Flowers and Fruit as City-Owned Line Popularizes 100 New Buses
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Speaking of Pictures: A Kansas Paint Dealer Sculptures His Home Towners In Cement
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 film records A-blast ruin as Civil Defense watches from afar
A parched Oklahomatown prays and dresses up for rain. It comes.
EDITORIALS:
Security and fair play
Diplomacy for the millions
PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:
America’s Arts and Skills, Part II: the look of liberty in craftmanship as patriotism becomes the American theme. Photographed for LIFE by Arnold Newman
Spring on a farm: under a warming sun the growing season’s work begins. Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark
ARTICLE:
Dead end for the US highway, by Herbert Brean. What is wrong with the road you’ll be using this weekend, what made it that way and what can be done about it
FASHION:
France’s bigtime dressmakers turn a hand to playclothes
EDUCATION: Colby undergrads dedicate a cleanup day to president emeritus who did most to get new campus built
MOVIES:
Film version of “The Seven Year Itch” gives a reassuring answer to a burning question about Marilyn Monroe — Opens with a 6″ X 13″ photo of Marilyn and follows with 6 more pics of Marilyn ranging in size from 2-1/2″ X 4″ to 4-1/2″ X 5-3/4″
ART:
The Queen of England poses for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors
Speaking of Pictures: Grace Kelly’s Riviera romance
Sequel: US and USSR Elbe veterans reunite in Moscow
Party: Student high jinks add zest to Norway’s “Fourth of July”
1953/09/14 — Cover featuring Casey Stengel is credited to Mark Kauffman.
Contents of this issue are as follows: COVER:
Casey Stengel’s Winning Smile
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
The Lonely Men of Short Creek Await Trial (polygamy)
Heat Launches Raft of Sales for a Melting ‘Missouri’
General Dean’s Heroism is Revealed
Naguib Makes a Pilgrimmage
West Germans Break Up Communist Election Putsch
US Bombers Extend Their Range to The World
A Tornado of Rebuilding Near Flint
LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
SS ‘Miramar’ and He Embattled Skipper
EDITORIAL:
‘High Level Doldrums’ in Business
PICTORIAL ESSAYS:
Images of a Magic City (New York), Part 1, Photographed for LIFE by Ernest Haas
A Fresh Look at Lodge about Henry Cabot Lodge
ARTICLES:
‘A Regular Roosting Place’ by Robert Wallace
The Russian Soldier: A Close-up by Ronald Schiller and Garrett Underhill
AVIATION:
A Wedge of Wedges in British Sky
BUSINESS:
Bright Boy Grocer
ANIMALS:
Sam, Whose Pants and Ears Are Too Long (a basset hound)
FASHION:
Soles to Be Seen
MOVIES:
Sir Larry Sings on Horseback — Laurence Olivier in The Beggar’s Opera
ART:
Durante by the Numbers — A Jimmy Durante paint-by-numbers set — text talks about paint-by-numbers as though it were new
MODERN LIVING:
Plywood Toys Are Backyard Boon
MUSIC:
Joe Friday’s Four Notes Are Expanded
SPORTS:
Charlie and Ol’ Case in a Series Preview — World Series Preview concentrates on New York Yankees manager Casey Stengel and Brooklyn Dodgers manager Chuck Dressen
SCIENCE:
Eye Mote Reveals New Facts About Vision
NATURE:
Ant Lion Waits for Ant to Drop In
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors
Speaking of Pictures: Actress Demonstrates First Starring Role is photos of Rosanna Podesta
Sequel: A Long Voyage to No Home
LIFE Goes to a Belated Dutch Wedding Party
Miscellany: Mushroom Cloud Over Paris
Ben Hogan for Chesterfield Cigarettes on the Back Cover
1953/08/31 — Cover featuring Donna Reed is credited to Sharland.
Contents of this issue are as follows: THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
A Dramatic Royal Comeback in Iran — the Shah
Reds Photograph a GIs Reaction to the Truce in Korea
Zoo’s Babies Get Overdose of Love
Great Britain Provides New Face for UN – Selwyn George
American Legion Provides New Face for Europe – Lewis Gough
Ruinous Epilog to a Homeric Drama
LIFE on the Newsfronts of the World
First Pictures of Atomic Sub
EDITORIALS:
Twilight of the Bosses
The Bossless Democrats
PICTORIAL ESSAY:
The Helmericks, Back Home in the Arctic
ARTICLE:
Space, It’s Enough to Make the Blood Boil – Many Fearful Problems Remain to Be Solved Before Man Can break Free of the Earth — by Jonathan Norton Leonard
RELIGION:
Assisi’s Second Saint — St. Clare
TELEVISION:
New Look on the Battlefield
MUSIC:
Once There Was a Boy – Brewster “Brucie” Weil
ART:
The Bartering Bridegroom – James Poetzsch
FASHION:
Dior’s First 13 Short Skirts
MOVIES:
From Here to Eternity with photos of scenes with Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr, Donna Reed
SPORTS:
Archery Expert Aims at an Egg – Ann Marston
OTHER DEPARTMENTS:
Letters to the Editors
Speaking of Pictures: Two Circus Chimps Play Tennis in Entertainingly Human Poses
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