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

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