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1956-04-02 Life Magazine Contents

1956/04/02 — Cover photograph featuring Teenage Telephone Tie-Up is credited to Grey Villet

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

  • Hand That Shook the Democrats – Estes Kefauver moves to front after defeating Adlai Stevenson in Minnesota Primary
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • U.S. Breaks into the Frozen Continent of Antarctica – Photographed for LIFE by Fritz Goro

  • Snowfall Samaritans rescue a mailman in New York Storm

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Resurrection – An event that beggars comment

    • ARTICLE:

  • Barons Against the King — Part 3 of Volume 1 (“The Birth of Britain”) in Sir Winston Churchill’s “History of the English-Speaking Peoples.” Plus a portfolio of paintings by contemporary artists on medieval life

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Skillful arrangements of simple flowers create grand effects – Painted for LIFE by Mary Faulconer
  • Tireless, Talky Teen-agers Keep Telephone Lines Toiling – Photographed for LIFE by Grey Villet

    • FASHION:

  • Designer Luis Estevez – A one-year wonder and his necklines

    • SPORTS:
    San Francisco Dons set a basketball victory record the easy way – Photos include Bill Russell and K.C. Jones

    RADIO AND TV:

  • Fans and Friends Mourn Fred Allen

    • RELIGION:

  • Catholics Revise Easter with ancient rites and modern notes

    • YOUTH:

  • Kansas City children cut capers in a shopping center zoo

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: The Matching Poujades
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: The Snow Also Rises