1956-07-23 Life Magazine Contents

1956/07/23 — Cover features The Battle of Buena Vista by Chamberlain

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

G.O.P. Smiles Widen With Ike’s Decision

A Look at the World’s Week

Anguish Cruelly Compounded – The Mother of a Kidnapped Baby Is Tortured by the Hoaxers

Greeks Mourn 54 Dead in the Aegean

Sights and Smells of Moscow – A Visitor’s Report By the Chief of TIME-LIFE Washington Bureau

5,000 Girls Scouts Rough It on First National Roundup at a “Primitive Encampment”

EDITORIALS:

The U.S. Spirit: A Moral Creed

The U.S. Spirit: A Will to Risk

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

Everybody Gets In the Acting: Five Amateur Productions Of the Same Play in Five Cities Show How Footlight Fever is Sweeping the U.S. — Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel

ARTICLE:

“My Confession” – The First of Three Installments on the Romantic Mexican War Memoirs of a Solider-Artist

RELIGION:

Cutting into Cryptic Copper – A Professor Saws Secrets Out of the 2,000-Year-Old Dead Sea Scrolls

FASHION:
Mad Hats for Elegantly Simple Fall Dresses

MEDICINE:

Artificial Suns for Surgery at St. Lo

ANIMALS:

New Deal for a Rare Seal

SPORTS:

A ‘Copter Ride in a Motorless Boat

ART:

A Cast Lady Cast Off – Texas Bank Rejects Zorach’s Sculpture

MILITARY AFFAIRS:

Fraternity of Valor – Britain Honors Holders of 100-Year-Old Victoria Cross

PARTY:

Fifth and Last in LIFE’s Series on How to Give Children’s Parties Tells Parents to Let 15-Year-Olds Run Their Own Show

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Speaking of Pictures: Castles in the Sand of Italy

Letters to the Editors

Sequel: A Black Friday for Whoopers

Miscellany: Cow’s Tongue ina Tap