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1956-01-23 Life Magazine Contents

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
  • Miscellany: No Neck on Deck