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1956-06-11 Life Magazine Contents

1956/06/11 — Cover features Carroll Baker credited to Peter Stackpole

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

  • Buddha’s 2,500th anniversary brings hosts of his half-billion believers to celebrations both pious and gay – 5 pages
  • Two eggs htch and now the small flock of U.S. whooping cranes numbers 31
  • A parliamentary row over helping U.S. financiers with pipeline challenges government of Canada
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Satchmo is a smash on Africa’s Gold Coast featuring Louis Armstrong
  • Communist stooge Nenni becomes a power in Italy
  • Segregated Negroes introduce bus stop protest into another city, Tallahassee
  • EDITORIAL:

  • Advice to and from writers
  • PICTORIAL ESSAY:

  • The story of the mighty Yangtze – John Hersey ‘s new novel “A Single Pebble” is born of a voyage that he and Photographer Dmitri Kessel made for LIFE on China’s Great River – 10 pages
  • CLOSE-UP:

  • Averell Harriman, the dark horse with the best handlers, by James Keough; Third in LIFE’s series on Democratic candidates
  • ARTICLE:

  • The mystery and misery of the aching back by Ernest Havemann
  • EDUCATION:

  • Wake Forest College moves 110 miles to a new $19 million campus
  • MOVIES:
    There are no words at all in Gene Kelly ‘s “Invitation to the Dance”

  • Girl on the eve of a triumph: Carroll Baker shows her dramatic skill in making “Baby Doll”
  • AGRICULTURE:

  • English Farmer rigs upa self-steering tractor that farms alone
  • MODERN LIVING:

  • An amphibious trailer is at home on the highway and in the water
  • THEATER:

  • Four-faced Hamlet – In a brilliant production by Baylor University drama students, Shakespeare’s hero is played by a quartet of actors
  • FASHION:

  • California style on the backlots – Clothes travel around film’s imitation world – Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks
  • ART:

  • Sculpture on the rocks – a Greek-born artist finds form and faces in orginary stones
  • MEDICINE:

  • New cigarette – cancer link – study shows that as smoking rate rises, so does lung damage
  • MUSIC:

  • “T-r-a-n-s-fusion” is a gruesome new song hit
  • PARTY:

  • Part IV in the LIFE series on how to give children’s parties; boys and girls of 12 whoop it up together
  • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: visual aids in think session help Navy men to be creative
  • Miscellany: A Propaganda Pup
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