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1956-04-23 Life Magazine Contents

1956/04/23 — Cover features Jayne Mansfield credited to Peter Stackpole

Contents of this issue are as follows:
THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
Sensational secret behind Stalin’s damnation:

  • An ex-NKVD general discloses deeds so shocking the Reds must disown their old idol by Alexander Orlov – 8 pages
  • An authority on the Soviet presents a document implicating Stalin as czarist spy by Isaac Don Levine – parts of 4 pages

  • The tragic ordeal of Platoon 71 puts Marine training under fire
  • Peace comes at end of bloody week in Holy Land as U.N. envoy exerts West’s pressure

  • A British auto racer is spilled to fiery death
  • Monaco mania – Cartoonist Rowland Emett depicts the little country’s prewedding delirium
  • A Look at the World’s Week

    • EDITORIALS:

  • A letter to Khruschchev
  • Moral dilemma on campus

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Prodigous music maker – the world honors Mozart on his 200th Anniversary – Photographed for LIFE by Gjon Mili – 14 pages, most in color

  • Clubfooted boy from Dominican Republic gets new feet and a home in the U.S. – Photographed for LIFE by Joern Gerdts

    • ARTICLE:

  • Star’s legend in the making – Jayne Mansfield talks dumb but heads for the top by Ernest Havemann – 7 pages (5 are half-pages though)

    • THEATER:

  • Frank Loesser’s “The Most Happy Fella” is a musical landmark

    • SPORTS:
    Swimmer Orrin Nordstrom wear gloves, shoes while training

    ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Beauty for a big top – a French artist decks circus in flowery finery – 4 pages in color by Marcel Vertes

    • SCIENCE:

  • “In frogs…the universe” – Jean Rostand, son of the famous playwright, finds a rich life in his scientific studies

    • MOVIES:

  • Alfred Hitchcock does a hair-raiser in a concert hall
  • Marlon Brando makes up like an Okinawan for “Teahouse” role

    • RELIGION:

  • Church for the deaf conducts its services in sign language

    • ANIMALS:

  • Opo the dolphin has a brief summer of happiness taking New Zealand swimmers for a ride

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • New loot for children – a new book tells where and how to acquire 1,200 gifts for the asking

    • TELEVISION:

  • Man bites like dog as Lassie and Perry Como get TV awards

    • ART:

  • Cult of the kitchen sink – British emphasize the sordid

    • MUSIC:

  • Brother Matthew at the jam session – a great saxophonist leaves the monastery briefly for a jazz performance

    • MEDICINE:

  • A nbew technique for collecting blood plasma increases production by giving the corpuscles back to the donors

    • PARTY:

  • En route to Mexico for her wedding, Grace Kelly plays hard at The Game – Photographed by Howell Conant – 4 pages, b&w, of Grace Kelly playing charades, 13 photos total

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: three miffed misses yearn for other roles