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1956-03-05 Life Magazine Contents

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  • New teen-tune hits are based on out-of-date styles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
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