1956-03-26 Life Magazine Contents

1956/03/26 — Cover photograph featuring Julie Andrews is credited to Leonard McCombe

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:

Trouble to the east plagues the West – Troubles in the Middle East

The man who won Margaret Truman — Meet Clifton Daniel

Gas bill lobby’s tangled trail

Plots (including cemetery) full of poison

A Look at the World’s Week

Marooned passengers photograph their own ordeal as the “Washington Mail” sinks in Gulf of Alaska

EDITORIAL:

“A new vision playing on old facts”

ARTICLE:

The Norman Conquest – Part 2 of Volume 1 (“The Birth of Britain”) in Sir Winston Churchill’s “History of the English-Speaking Peoples”

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

Famous English battlefields – 8 pages of color illustrating the Churchill article – Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel

EDUCATION:

Blind for a day – An Arizona physics teacher blindfolds his students to dramatize the story of light

THEATER:
Shaw’s “Pygmalion” with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews makes a fine Broadway musical

MEDICINE:

U.S. atoms for peace exhibit builds a Japanese archway to atomic moons

ART:

A German-born Yale professor trains art students with optical tricks

MOVIES:

Alec Guinness , as a prelate, a prince and a prowler, is good for three new films at once

AVIATION:

British “Droop Snoot” jet fighter sets world speed record

SCIENCE:

Old bones make a big stew: some think Italy’s Oreopithecus is ancestor of apes, some thing of man, some neither

YOUTH:

Kids with guns: drawing a bead on safety, Indiana Youngsters start at Age 6 learning how to handle firearms

SPORTS:

Larceny on the links: con men take “friendly” game of golf to a fatal financial hazard for the nation’s golfers – By Marshall Smith

FASHION:

The rustic bandanna gets down off the farm in spring and summer styles

PARTY:

Marching back to 1066 – British walker try to match the pace of King Harold’s Saxons and are too tired to fight

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Speaking of Pictures: A Bubbly British Billow Below Ground

Letters to the Editors

Miscellany: Dog’s Bath Without Wrath