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1955-04-11 Life Magazine Contents

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 Scelba wins friends for himself and his country on a thank-you visit to the US
  • The Tribune’s colonel dies: A rich and full life ends at 74 for Robert R. McCormick
  • Editorial: Ways to God
  • What goes on inside atomic sub
  • Preview for penguins: Antarctic visit of US Navy ship breaks way for an international expedition
  • New radiance for churches: The ancient art of stained-glass windows is revived by modern designers
  • Small-as-life copies: Window dummies are twins of child fashion models
  • Daring quest by jet boat: England’s Don Campbell seeks water speed record but prepares to do it safely
  • Stair-climbing wheel chair: A set of motor-driven windmilling wheels rools invalids backward up steps
  • Beautiful blossoming shrubs: Paintings in color by Anne Ophelia Todd of 12 of best floweing bushes to plant in spring
  • Witty wisdom in poet’s play: Christopher Fry’s “The Dark Is Light Enough” is full of good talk
  • Chickens over glass: Photographer gets a worm’s-eye view of brooding hen
  • High lady’s high jinks: England’s rich Lady Docker
  • Oscar winners pull a switch: Boisterous Brando is a perfect gentleman and imperturbably Kelly breaks down
  • LIFE’s Photographic Essay: The encroaching menace of the slims and what Chicago is doing about it
  • LIFE’s Article: Has the US discovered a new religion? Paul Hutchinson examines our spiritual trends
  • Tiny movie-makers in toyland: Industrial Designer invents a home movie kit for kids
  • Happy Change for a Heavy: Hollywood villain Ernest Borgnine plays a gentle hero (in “Marty”)
  • A big bank merger and a bigger one continue a business trend
  • Miscellany: Briton swabs the waves
  • Lucky Strikes Cigarettes ad on the Back Cover