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1956-11-12 Life Magazine Contents

1956/11/12 — Cover featuring Rosalind Russell as Auntie Mame is credited to Mark Shaw

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

  • Hungarian patriots strike ferocious blows at a tyranny – 10 pages
  • World opinion rallies for Suez peace – 5 pages
  • The reappearance of two cardinals
  • A Look at the World’s Week – includes b&w photo of Elvis Presley with Natalie Wood and another shot showing Marilyn Monroe shaking hands with Queen Elizabeth
  • Magnetic Margaret’s African mission: on a troubled continent Britain’s pretty princess finds colorful evidence of loyalty to the crown – Photographed for LIFE by Mark Kauffman – 7 pages
  • Junk jalopies form a jetty near Topeka

    • EDITORIAL:

  • Edne’s tragic blunder

    • ARTICLES:

  • A tribute to vaudeville’s golden era – a great comic in his last book fondly recounts the hilarious legends of the show circuit – By Fred Allen – 11 pages, mostly half pages of text, half of advertising

  • High Venture and Civil War by Sir Winston Churchill, Third Part of Volume 2 of “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” – takes up all or part of 18 pages

    • TELEVISION:

  • A fast-rising schoolgirl – a Chicago 12-year-old is a hit as mistress of ceremonies on her own TV show

    • BOOKS:

  • An unpopular best seller “Peyton Place,” Grace Metalious’ novel, has made her unloved in Gilmanton, N.H.

    • ANIMALS:

  • Rare retriever – a hunting dog takes care of cripples

    • MOVIES:

  • In “The Ten Commandments” Cecil B. DeMille , Hollywood’s master showman, films anew the story of the Exodus

    • BUSINESS:

  • You too can blow up the world: manufacturers try new tricks to make globes more graphic

    • THEATER:

  • Wise, wacky “Auntie Mame” – Rosalind Russell is absolutely perfect in Broadway version of best selling book

    • FASHION:

  • Paris in a department store

    • ARMY:

  • The Army digs a faster foxhole

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • How to square flattop hair
  • A brainy toy’s tricks

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • A first lady minister in robes of a new role

    • MEDICINE:

  • Pets make a hospital happy

    • SPORTS:

  • Tennessee family has a potential All-American, a successful coach and four other stars

    • PARTY:

  • Gay gathering in a gallery at a Providence, R.I. museum

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Scenes by Dramatic Diva – Maria Callas
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Sure-Footed Scholarship
  • Pan-Am ad on inside front cover features color artwork Master Pilot John Mattis by Norman Rockwell