1956-02-27 Life Magazine Contents

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

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Speaking of Pictures: A Whole Race at a Glance

Letters to the Editors

Miscellany: Trusting a Tomcat