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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
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