1956-11-19 Life Magazine Contents

1956/11/19 — Cover featuring Wounded Egyptian Solider credited to Burt Glinn

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

How the British and French attacked canal — a small war in the shadow of a big-stick threat – 8 pages of the attack on the Suez Canal

A Split-Ticket vote for the historians to explain

Lost cause shocks the world – rioters rage at the rape of Hungary

After a watch by night, a miraculous mine rescue

A Look at the World’s Week

Celebration for Seretse – Bechuanaland chieftain and his white wife are home again as private citizens

EDITORIALS:

To the heroes of Hungary

What the voters said

PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

New vistas of the road – in America’s matchless autumn panorama a great highway program gathers speed

Country Music’s prosperity – Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel – 8 pages of photos, 4 in color. Grand Ole Opry “family portrait” includes Johnny Cash

ARTICLES:

Names, places, and pay-offs – by Wes Santee. The miler whose suspension brought the year’s biggest sports controversy tells of the “brown envelope” system

The Curse of Cromwell by Sir Winston Churchill, in “A History of the English-Speaking Peoples” – Eight pages of color on an ardent King’s lovely conquests, court and courntry life and the great fire – takes up all or part of 19 pages, several in color

SCIENCE:

The oldest thing alive – bristlecone pines in California are 4,000 years old

ANIMALS:

Triple-decker doghouse for some high-living Afghans

MOVIES:

Fearful female on the run – “Julie” is a terror tale of flight from a fiend

AVIATION:

Russians build a better chute

A Navy balloon’s record rise and perilous drop

THEATER:

Eugene O’Neill ‘s autobiographical play “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” reaches the U.S. stage

SPORTS:

Soomething had to crack in battle of unbeaten football giants — Tennessee beats Georgia Tech

CLOSE-UP:

The hectic daily rat race of Master Cartoonist Herblock

FASHION:

Men’s shirts don bold and colorful fronts

PARTY:

A Stately welcome to society as Atlanta debutantes make their bow

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

Speaking of Pictures: Hurdles from on High

Letters to the Editors

Miscellany: A Squirt for a Squirrel