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1956-04-16 Life Magazine Contents

1956/04/16 — Cover featuring Berber Girls credited to David Douglas Duncan

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

  • As world worries about Middle East, new Egypt shows its strength – Photographed for LIFE by David Douglas Duncan – 8 pages including full-page b&w photo of Nasser
  • Nature triggers tornado season and man fights it
  • Salesman with understanding boss gives pros fits in the Masters featuring Ken Venturi

  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Odyssey of a daft raft – landlubbers trying to outdo “Kon-Tiki” take a long Pacific voyage to nowehere

    • EDITORIAL:

  • Is the income tax just?

    • PICTORIAL ESSAY:

  • Man shapes his environment – the domestication of plants and animals gave man his greatest victory in battle against nature — Part 4 of “The Epic of Man” – Text by Lincoln Barnett, Photographs for LIFE by David Douglas Duncan and Frank Scherschel. Paintings by Alton S. Tobey

    • ARTICLE:

  • Glubb Pasha tells how our Middle East enemies work – Arab agitators abetted by Reds, says British general ousted from Jordan, imperil the West’s position

    • FASHION:

  • Bright spot on a bad day – spring brings a deluge of raincoats in new styles and gay prints

    • EDUCATION:
    Parents’ schooldays – a Maryland school puts mom and pop through three days of their children’s curriculum

    TRANSPORTATION:

  • From our horrible highways – Artist Basil Wolverton draws cars for maniac autoists

    • MOVIES:

  • Rotten business in the ring – a wallping film tells of the fixed fights and phony build-up of a boxer – About The Harder They Fall

    • SCIENCE:

  • A turkey that never had a father – Agriculture Department scientist studies hens that produce chicks without any assistance from toms

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Strugn up for sitting down – a make-it-yourslf chair has a seat woven of clothesline

    • MEDICINE:

  • An official warning makes things hotter for Hoxsey’s cancer clinics

    • SPORTS:

  • Bulls baffle brave Bertha – Colombian girl takes a beating but keeps coming back for more

    • NATURE:

  • Cannibal snail gets a job – A tiny African mollusk is imported to fight a citrus pest

    • PARTY:

  • A wistful reunion at Pickfair – Mary Pickford gathers famous film figures of 1920s – Includes photos of Pickford with Francis X. Bushman, Antonio Moreno, plus the Duncan Sisters, Anna Q. Nilsson with Harold Lloyd and Annette Kellerman, William Boyd with Jack Oakie and Russell Simpson, Hedda Hopper and Marion Davies

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: a swimsuit that really gets around
  • Miscellany: Paddles and the poodles