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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
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