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1956-04-30 Life Magazine Contents

1956/04/30 — Cover features Margaret Truman and husband Clifton Daniel credited to Arnold Newman

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

  • An extra special Saturday for Independence, Mo.
  • Her Grace of the movies gets a real life title – Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier – 9 pages

  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • A reception that was no ball for Bulganin and Khruschchev in Britain

    • EDITORIALS:

  • How to be right AND President
  • The luck of the British

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Japan in the spring glows with a soft and subtle beauty – Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon – 16 pages, all color!

    • ARTICLES:

  • Athletes tell how illicit pay-offs destroy the amateur stock by Jack Newcombe – includes photos of Wes Santee – Elmore Harris – Roscoe Browne – Jim Herbert and Johnny Fulton
  • The end of a dark age ushers in new dangers – liquidation of Stalinism at Soviet’s 20th Congress underlines and insidious drive to win free men by Whittaker Chambers

    • SPORTS:

  • First big league game for eight boys – Seven rookies are nervous and to one it’s just a game – 3 pages include photo of rookies Luis Aparicio – Charley Neal – Frank Robinson – Tito Francona – Jerry Lumpe – Whitey Herzog – Don Buddin – Danny Kravitz

    • MUSIC:
    Howling Hillbilly success – Elvis Presley ‘s complaint becomes a top pop tune – 1 page, 2 b&w photos of Elvis

    ANIMALS:

  • High-flying haylift brings help to hard-luck horse stranded on the Continental Divide

    • MOVIES:

  • Kind dice and death – in “The Bold and the Brave” GI Mickey Rooney wins…and loses

    • EDUCATION:

  • Academic private eye – in Wisconsin school TV sites in as a disciplinarian

    • FASHION:

  • Barbard College sophomore Anne Morris advises the buyer at New York’s Bergdorf Goodman

    • SCIENCE:

  • The squared egg – new plastic shell is tougher and handier

    • INDUSTRY:

  • Drilling offshore, Britain finds a rich underwater source of coal

    • ART:

  • Jazz herlps sculptors dig that clay – a Hollywood art class models to music

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • Golden domes in the Arctic – DEW line radar stations spring up to defend the U.S.

    • MEDICINE:

  • Daily gift of life – student blood donors keep a California hemophiliac in school

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: a massed bird migration is part of photographic display honoring Margaret Bourke-White
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Pigeon-toed Pavement