1956-09-03 Life Magazine Contents

1956/09/03 — Cover featuring Slave Auction is credited to Robert Riggs

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

G.O.P. convention stages a rousing rally for Ike and Dick

A Look at the World’s Week

A cringing kidnapper who left his infant victim to perish is captured and confesses

EDITORIALS:

Ike, Adlai and American ardor

The new Republican harmony

PICTORIAL ESSAY:

“The Background of Segregation” Part 1 – In the first of a new series LIFE shows how the Negro came from Africa to slavery in America and how he enriched and troubled his new land. Text by Robert Wallace – Includes 3-page fold-out illustration captioned “A Coffle of Freight for Yankee Slavers” by Stevan Dohanos, plus other artwork

ARTICLE:

Louis B. Seltzer , a great editor, tells of the poor but happy boyhood which formed background for newspaper career

FASHION:

A hint of hemline upheaval – newest length by Dior jogs the Paris showings

ART:
A bath for a god – a Buddhist carving in Boston gets spruced up for TV

SPORTS:

Lew Hoad ‘s bid for a rare grand slam in tennis

PARTY:

Skittish time for novice water skiers – young campers take only 14 minutes to learn fun of a trick sport

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Speaking of Pictures: history of an ostrich hatching

Letters to the Editors

Sequel: blind dog gets a plastic lens

Miscellany: silent sirens by the sea