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1955-05-02 Life Magazine Contents

1955/05/02 — Cover featuring Oklahoma! movie dancers is credited to J.R. Eyerman

Contents of this issue are as follows:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Comparison for the world’s highest cataract
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Friends of the West Speak Up – Nehru and Chou Get a Rude Awakening at Asian-African Conference in Bandung
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Editorial: Can We Produce an Einstein?Sir Winston’s Hideaway – From Sicily Comes Word that Churchill’s New History Will Appear in LIFE
  • Fiesta Fun and Fire in Old Valencia – Spanish City Joyously Burns Statues It Built
  • Death of a Genius – His Fourth Dimension, Time, Overtakes Albert Einstein
  • Reading the Bible, Cover to Cover – Oklahoma Baptists Read Through Entire Scriptures in a 79-Hour Marathon
  • The Peak Year for Pink – Pastel Shows Up Stron in Male Wardrobes and Around the House
  • Precocious Planters – Camp Fire Girls of Wichita, Kansas Replace Their City’s Dying Trees
  • Ev’rythin’s Up to Date – “Oklahoma” Is Finall Filmed and in Todd-AO
  • Old Madonna Grows Older – Restorer Uncovers a Fifth Century Painting
  • Sequel – Little German Girl Befriended Three Years Ago by a Kindly Congressman Becomes American Citizen
  • Medical Discovery Is Put to Work – Mass Polio Inoculations Begin as Nation Pays Thanks to Dr. Salk
  • Otto, Real and Crazy – A Prankish German Pianist’s Ragtime Takes Over U.S. Juke Boxes
  • A Reptile That Really Gets Ruffled – The Australian Frilled Lizard Makes a Debut in the Bronx
  • Museum Director’s Choice – Frederick B. Robinson, of Springfield, Mass. Museum of Fine Arts Selects a Luminous Chardin Still Life
  • The Baronial Busches of St. Louis – The Brewery Family and Its Exuberant Way of Life – A Photographic Essay by Margaret Bourke-White
  • How Reds Wreck a Free University – Communists Thwart a Famous Scholar’s Effort to Set Up a Citidel for Liberty – LIFE’s Article by Lin Yutang
  • Pulling a Big Oar at Cornell – Overabundance of Manpower Gives Crew Coach a Pleasant Problem
  • Salute to “Sam” – U.S. Celebrates 200th Anniversary of Johnson’s “Dictionary”
  • Miscellany – Modern House? Or Fire Escape?
  • Full-page color ad for Post Toasties includes cartoon image of pitchman Roy Rogers
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