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1956-12-03 Life Magazine Contents

1956/12/03 — Cover featuring Flag on Sunken U.S.S. Arizona is credited to N.R. Farbman

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

  • Tortured Exodus to Liberty – Thousands of Hungarians Forsake Their Ravaged Homeland
  • A Sudden Snow Snarls the East
  • Shaky Cease-Fire in Egypt
  • A Look at the World’s Week

    • EDITORIAL:

  • Toward a Better U.N.

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • The Long Trail to Winter Passage – A Montanan Moves His Herd 60 Stormy Miles
  • Shiny Showplace for Studies – At the Ancient University of Mexico Students Now Work on a Dazzling Campus of Color and Light – Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon
  • A Stockpile of Might for U.S. in Europe – Photographed for LIFE by Michael Rougier

    • ARTICLES:

  • What Drives Olympic Stars by Marhsall Smith with illustration by Willard Mullin
  • “Day of Infamy” – The Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Reveals How Japanese Admirals, Spies, Airmen and Sailors Sweated Out a Mission to Rock the World by Walter Lord – takes up all or part of 11 pages

    • SPORTS:

  • Old Passer Ha His Fling at Last – Giants Charlie Conerly with some Help Becomes a Football Hero

    • TELEVISION:

  • A High-Living Pooch is a Durable Star – Lassie ‘s Son, Lassie, Gets $100,000 a Year

    • FASHION:

  • Long, Vivid Wraps Glow on Till Dawn – Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks

    • SCIENCE:

  • A Plastic Igloo for an Eskimo
  • African Tribal Tribute to a Great Ethnologist

    • THEATER:

  • Double Helpings of Superb Acting – Leighton and Portman Are Magnificent in Four Roles in “Separate Tables”

    • RELIGION:

  • A Basilica for an Iowa Town – Energetic Congregation in Dyersville, Ohio Beomces a “Pope’s Church”

    • BUSINESS:

  • Giveaway Hideaway – A Brewery Offers Cash or Island to a Contest Winner

    • MEDICINE:

  • A New Device Gives Rare, Revealing Look Into a Beating Heart

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • An Eastern Star Looks West – Japan’s Most Popular Movie Actress, Machiko Kyo, Reaches the U.S. Screen

    • MOVIES:

  • A Rainmaking Rogue Brings Happiness to All in Fine Film

    • PARTY:

  • Revelry Celebrates a Royal European Match

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Birth Under Water
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Restraint of Trade

    • 1956-11-26 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/11/26 — Cover featuring Ingrid Bergman is credited to Robert Landry

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

  • Tanks and Yet More Tanks Raze Hungary
  • Testing Time for U.S. Caught in Two Crises
  • A Legacy of Anguist Haunts Truce on Suez
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Iroquois Rebury Ancient Bones to Soothe Dusturbed Ancestral Spirits
  • Marines Wail as Wives Sail – The Corps Bans Families from Japan
  • Bronze Honor for Justice Brandeis – A University Hails Its Namesake

    • EDITORIALS:

  • In a World Jungle, Uneasy Thanks
  • In Crisis, A Call for Greatness

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Egypt’s Eras of Splendor – A Legacy of Art Reflects the Magnificence of Its Culture, The Genius of Its Thought, and the Power of Its Empire — Part 7 — “The Epic of Man” — Text by Lincoln Barnett and Photographed for LIFE by Walter Sanders, James Whitmore and Yale Joel
  • The Far-Off Site of the Olympics – The Handsome, Wealthy Metropolis of Melbourne Warms Up for the Games – Photographed for LIFE by John Dominis

    • ARTICLE:

  • Peril for Poland’s New Leader, Wladyslaw Gomulka by Jozef Swiatlo, who arrested him and was his jailer

    • TELEVISION:

  • TV Cameras Resort to Tricks to Get Jack Up the Beanstalk
  • That Awful Eloise Comes to Life – Kay Thompson’s “Eloise” Is Adapted for TV

    • MOVIES:

  • Brilliant Return for Ingrid Bergman in “Anastasia”

    • ANIMALS:

  • High-Flying Hybrid – AN Energetic Mule Crashes the Horsy Set

    • EDUCATION:

  • A Science Road Show Wows High School Pupils

    • SPORTS:

  • Twin Prize for Football – College Vie for Schoolboy Brothers Mike and Marlin McKeever

    • THEATER:

  • America Gets a British Feast of Shakespeare – Old Vic Players Act a Variety of Roles

    • FASHION:

  • Evening Chiffons Blow In

    • PEOPLE:

  • Candid Look for British Royal Children

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Latest Quest of a Busy Educator, Harvard’s Pusey

    • ART:

  • Paintings in Planes – Roberto Fasola’s “poliepipedi” Have a New York Showing

    • PARTY:

  • Banjo Jam at Yale

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Rhythmic Colors of a Symphony
  • Miscellany: Cake Sheds a Tier

    • 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

    • 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

    • 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

    • 1956-07-30 Life Magazine Contents July 30 1956

    1956/07/30 — Cover features Pier Angeli and is credited to Philippe Halsman

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

  • The Big Top Bows Out Forever as Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey folks its tents for the last time
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • The Trial of a Marine Sergeant Becomes A Trial for the Corps and Its Methods
  • A Tranquil Grave for the Grand Canyon Crash Dead
  • Evicted Indian Princess of Patiala Picket to Get Their Palace Back

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Eisenhower Program: How It Fares

    • ARTICLE:

  • Victory at Buena Vista – Part 2 of “My Confession” the Mexican War Memoirs of Soldier-Artist Samuel E. Chamberlain

    PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Beautiful Flowering of Emporia, Kansas – The City Reflects a Flourishing U.S. Hobby – Photographed for LIFE by Myron Davis

    • RELIGION:

  • Noble Drama at Notre Dame – Medieval Passion Play is a Paris Hit

    • MOVIES:

  • A Fine Part for Pier Angeli – The Gentle Actress Helps a Rough Film

    • SPORTS:
    Midsummer Madness – Baseball Suffers from a Wacky Outburst of Tempers

    ART:

  • A Wire Sun’s Golden Rising – Celestial Sculpture Goes on View in Metropolitan Museum

    • PARTY:

  • A Sentimental Send-Off for Senator George

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Cameralike Device Sees a Purple Cow
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Sequel: Stone Age Baby – A “Tarpan” Colt Is Born in a Chicago Zoo
  • Miscellany: Distress Over a Downfall

    • 1956-07-23 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/07/23 — Cover features The Battle of Buena Vista by Chamberlain

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

  • G.O.P. Smiles Widen With Ike’s Decision
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Anguish Cruelly Compounded – The Mother of a Kidnapped Baby Is Tortured by the Hoaxers
  • Greeks Mourn 54 Dead in the Aegean
  • Sights and Smells of Moscow – A Visitor’s Report By the Chief of TIME-LIFE Washington Bureau
  • 5,000 Girls Scouts Rough It on First National Roundup at a “Primitive Encampment”

    • EDITORIALS:

  • The U.S. Spirit: A Moral Creed
  • The U.S. Spirit: A Will to Risk

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Everybody Gets In the Acting: Five Amateur Productions Of the Same Play in Five Cities Show How Footlight Fever is Sweeping the U.S. — Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel

    • ARTICLE:

  • “My Confession” – The First of Three Installments on the Romantic Mexican War Memoirs of a Solider-Artist

    • RELIGION:

  • Cutting into Cryptic Copper – A Professor Saws Secrets Out of the 2,000-Year-Old Dead Sea Scrolls

    • FASHION:
    Mad Hats for Elegantly Simple Fall Dresses

    MEDICINE:

  • Artificial Suns for Surgery at St. Lo

    • ANIMALS:

  • New Deal for a Rare Seal

    • SPORTS:

  • A ‘Copter Ride in a Motorless Boat

    • ART:

  • A Cast Lady Cast Off – Texas Bank Rejects Zorach’s Sculpture

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • Fraternity of Valor – Britain Honors Holders of 100-Year-Old Victoria Cross

    • PARTY:

  • Fifth and Last in LIFE’s Series on How to Give Children’s Parties Tells Parents to Let 15-Year-Olds Run Their Own Show

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Castles in the Sand of Italy
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Sequel: A Black Friday for Whoopers
  • Miscellany: Cow’s Tongue ina Tap

    • 1956-07-16 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/07/16 — Cover photograph featuring Gary Cooper and Anthony Perkins is credited to Don Ornitz

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

  • A Perilous Search Follows History’s Worst Commercial Air Disaster
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • A Look at the World’s Week, Moscow Dept.
  • Bankrupt and Stranded, the King Brothers; Show Joins a Growing List of Circus Big Tops Which Have Been Struck

  • Pinch of Steel Strike Is Felt in Other, Varied Industries
  • Rome City Hall Has a Free-for-All Over a Mayoralty Election With Poor Giulio Near to a TKO

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Action Is Needed on Air Safety
  • Nixon is Making Sense and Friends

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • My Garden, by H.R.H. the Duke of Windsor – Photographed for LIFE by Frank Scherschel
  • A Weekend of Woe for a Father Named Joe – Joe Gordon Gives HIs Wife the Weekend Off and Bravely Takes Charge of Twin Babies – Photographed for LIFE by Joe Scherschel

    • ARTICLE:

  • A Debate, Pro and Con – Subject: Richard M. Nixon by Robert Coughlan

    • FASHION:

  • London Fashions, Models Wow Drab Russia

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • A Plate That Flies for Small Fry

    • ART:

  • Museum Director’s Choice – Denver’s Otto Karl Bach Picks the Carved Ancestor of an Indian Chief

    • MOVIES:

  • 24-year-old Copy of Cooper – Tony Perkins Takes After His Movie Father, Gary

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Old Stars–New Steps – Actors Perform Out of Character in a London Revue

    • PARTY:

  • Wedding Wine for Marilyn – She Becomes Mrs. Miller in a Simple Religious Ceremony – 3 full pages of photos of Marilyn Monroe in wedding veil and gown as she marries playwright Arthur Miller, all black & white

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: The Better Mice
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Face in the Raindrops

    • 1956-06-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/06/11 — Cover features Carroll Baker credited to Peter Stackpole

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

  • Buddha’s 2,500th anniversary brings hosts of his half-billion believers to celebrations both pious and gay – 5 pages

  • Two eggs htch and now the small flock of U.S. whooping cranes numbers 31
  • A parliamentary row over helping U.S. financiers with pipeline challenges government of Canada
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Satchmo is a smash on Africa’s Gold Coast featuring Louis Armstrong

  • Communist stooge Nenni becomes a power in Italy
  • Segregated Negroes introduce bus stop protest into another city, Tallahassee

    • EDITORIAL:

  • Advice to and from writers

    • PICTORIAL ESSAY:

  • The story of the mighty Yangtze – John Hersey ‘s new novel “A Single Pebble” is born of a voyage that he and Photographer Dmitri Kessel made for LIFE on China’s Great River – 10 pages

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • Averell Harriman, the dark horse with the best handlers, by James Keough; Third in LIFE’s series on Democratic candidates

    • ARTICLE:

  • The mystery and misery of the aching back by Ernest Havemann

    • EDUCATION:

  • Wake Forest College moves 110 miles to a new $19 million campus

    • MOVIES:
    There are no words at all in Gene Kelly ‘s “Invitation to the Dance”

  • Girl on the eve of a triumph: Carroll Baker shows her dramatic skill in making “Baby Doll”

    • AGRICULTURE:

  • English Farmer rigs upa self-steering tractor that farms alone

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • An amphibious trailer is at home on the highway and in the water

    • THEATER:

  • Four-faced Hamlet – In a brilliant production by Baylor University drama students, Shakespeare’s hero is played by a quartet of actors

    • FASHION:

  • California style on the backlots – Clothes travel around film’s imitation world – Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks

    • ART:

  • Sculpture on the rocks – a Greek-born artist finds form and faces in orginary stones

    • MEDICINE:

  • New cigarette – cancer link – study shows that as smoking rate rises, so does lung damage

    • MUSIC:

  • “T-r-a-n-s-fusion” is a gruesome new song hit

    • PARTY:

  • Part IV in the LIFE series on how to give children’s parties; boys and girls of 12 whoop it up together

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: visual aids in think session help Navy men to be creative
  • Miscellany: A Propaganda Pup

    • 1956-05-28 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/05/28 — Cover features Deborah Kerr and Yul Brynner in “The King and I” credited to James Mitchell

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

  • In a Car Surplus Situation One Firm is In Real Trouble
  • The Mystery of Frogman Lionel Crabb’s Dive for Red Secrets
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Requiem for 11 Nuns Killed in Puzzling Canadian Air Crash
  • Assembly Line Methods Speed the Building of the World’s Longest Overwater Highway Highway Bridge, the 24-Mile Lake Pontchartrain Causeway
  • A Gentle Old Man and His Love for Two Doves

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Law and Southern Schools

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Russians Pursue the Lively Arts – LIFE Looks at Russia’s Dogged Drive to Feed a People Famished for Culture – Part 1 of 2 — Photographed by Edward Clark

    • CLOSE-UP:

  • How Stumping Kefauver Stumps the Pros by Robert Coughlan — Second in Series on Democratic Candidates

    • DANCE:

  • Old Toes, New Pros – Retired 75-Year-Old Otto Krinke and His Wife Make a Lively New Professiona; Dancing Team

    • ART:
    The Art Acquired by Yalemen – 6 Pages of Color On an Alumni Show, Representing Classes from ’67 to ’51

    FASHION:

  • Designer-for-the-young Anne Klein Pares Down Lingerie to the Midsummer Minimum

    • POETRY:

  • “On This Wall, In This Town, In Their Own State” – Paul Engle’s Sonnets Salute Iowa’s War Dead on Memorial Day

    • MOVIES:

  • The King, His Camera and a Film Triumph – Yul Brynner Is a Masterful Monarch and a Deft Photographer for “The King and I”

    • ANIMALS:

  • Tot’s Tarantula – A 2-Year-Old Has Her Olwn Zoo at Home

    • SCIENCE:

  • Chivalrous Robot – G.E.’s New Machine Performs Elaborate Services at a Distance

    • RELIGION:

  • A Revolutionary New Church Shape in Mexico City

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • What It’s Like to Ride the “Nautilus” – LIFE Correspondent Clay Blair Tells About His Underwater Trip in the Nuclear-Powered Submarine

    • EDUCATION:

  • TV Teaches Foreign Language to First-Graders

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Smothering Weeds With Plastic

    • PARTY:

  • Gala for a Great Friend from Indonesia

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Fanciful Flights During Cleanup Day on the Movie Lot
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Looks Like Horse Sense

    • 1956-05-14 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/05/14 — Cover featuring Gainsborough Look in Fashion is credited to Mark Shaw

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

  • Flying Feet Produce a Thrilling Day of Sports
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Alben Barkley, Great Campaigner – His Last Audience is the Nation
  • The Nation Learns That the Second Best Air Force Is Not Good Enough
  • Interior Secretary McKay, Who Quit to Fight Senator Wayne Morse, Finds Oregon Primary Fight Is Tough
  • Grace and Rainier’s Official Wedding Picture — In Color

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Danger – Pettifoggers At Work
  • Step Toward State of Alaska

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • The Grand Canyon ‘s Hidden Wonders Are Revealed on a Long Trek Into Places Few Have Ever Seen — Photographed for LIFE by A.Y. Owen
  • Mellon’s Miracle – The Head of Pittsburgh’s First Family Leads HIs City Into a Renaissance

    • ARTICLES:

  • Genteel Queen of Crime, Whodunit Writer Agatha Christie, Puts Her Zest for Life Into Murder by Nigel Dennis
  • Henry Wallace Describes HIs Thoughts on Communism and Peace and And Tells Why He Supports Eisenhower as the Man to Avoid and “Atomic Abyss”

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • What to Do About the Draft? LIFE Presents a Guide for Young Men Facing Military Service and For Their Parents

    • MOVIES:

  • New Star Cathy Dunn , 7, Sees Her Movie, “Lovers and Lollipops,” With Her Friend, Veteran Star, Richie Andrusco, 10

    • MEDICINE:

  • A 49-Year-Old Veteran Is Chief of a Salt Lake Nursing Service and Opens Up a New Career for Men

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Ex-Movie Queen Constance Bennett, 51, Rocks and Rolls in Dungarees to Kid the Teen-Agers

    • SEQUEL:

  • Korean Orphan, “the Boy Who Wouldn’t Smile,” Finds a Happy Home in the U.S.

    • FASHION:

  • An Old Master Is Back In Style – Gainsborough Girls Grace Parties Again

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • A Pipsqueak Sailboat Costs $30 to Build

    • EDUCATION:

  • The Gifted High School Students Who Won Big Scholarships Display Varied Talents

    • SPORTS:

  • Crooner Frankie Laine and Golfer Gene Littler Hit the Jackpot in the Las Vegas Calcutta Golf Pool

    • HISTORY:

  • Biggest Collection of U.S. Swords

    • PARTIES:

  • Visit to Texas Ranch Gives Foreign Ambassadors An Unstarched View of the U.S.

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Big-Scale Manhattan Model
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Peggy the Portable Pony
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features small sepia headshot photos of 20 Baseball Stars including Ted Kluszewski, Richie Ashburn, Warren Spahn, Yogi Berra, Early Wynn, Harvey Haddix, and others

    • 1956-04-30 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/04/30 — Cover features Margaret Truman and husband Clifton Daniel credited to Arnold Newman

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

  • An extra special Saturday for Independence, Mo.
  • Her Grace of the movies gets a real life title – Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier – 9 pages

  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • A reception that was no ball for Bulganin and Khruschchev in Britain

    • EDITORIALS:

  • How to be right AND President
  • The luck of the British

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • Japan in the spring glows with a soft and subtle beauty – Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon – 16 pages, all color!

    • ARTICLES:

  • Athletes tell how illicit pay-offs destroy the amateur stock by Jack Newcombe – includes photos of Wes Santee – Elmore Harris – Roscoe Browne – Jim Herbert and Johnny Fulton
  • The end of a dark age ushers in new dangers – liquidation of Stalinism at Soviet’s 20th Congress underlines and insidious drive to win free men by Whittaker Chambers

    • SPORTS:

  • First big league game for eight boys – Seven rookies are nervous and to one it’s just a game – 3 pages include photo of rookies Luis Aparicio – Charley Neal – Frank Robinson – Tito Francona – Jerry Lumpe – Whitey Herzog – Don Buddin – Danny Kravitz

    • MUSIC:
    Howling Hillbilly success – Elvis Presley ‘s complaint becomes a top pop tune – 1 page, 2 b&w photos of Elvis

    ANIMALS:

  • High-flying haylift brings help to hard-luck horse stranded on the Continental Divide

    • MOVIES:

  • Kind dice and death – in “The Bold and the Brave” GI Mickey Rooney wins…and loses

    • EDUCATION:

  • Academic private eye – in Wisconsin school TV sites in as a disciplinarian

    • FASHION:

  • Barbard College sophomore Anne Morris advises the buyer at New York’s Bergdorf Goodman

    • SCIENCE:

  • The squared egg – new plastic shell is tougher and handier

    • INDUSTRY:

  • Drilling offshore, Britain finds a rich underwater source of coal

    • ART:

  • Jazz herlps sculptors dig that clay – a Hollywood art class models to music

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • Golden domes in the Arctic – DEW line radar stations spring up to defend the U.S.

    • MEDICINE:

  • Daily gift of life – student blood donors keep a California hemophiliac in school

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: a massed bird migration is part of photographic display honoring Margaret Bourke-White
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Pigeon-toed Pavement

    • 1956-04-23 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/04/23 — Cover features Jayne Mansfield credited to Peter Stackpole

    Contents of this issue are as follows:
    THE WEEK’S EVENTS:
    Sensational secret behind Stalin’s damnation:

  • An ex-NKVD general discloses deeds so shocking the Reds must disown their old idol by Alexander Orlov – 8 pages
  • An authority on the Soviet presents a document implicating Stalin as czarist spy by Isaac Don Levine – parts of 4 pages

  • The tragic ordeal of Platoon 71 puts Marine training under fire
  • Peace comes at end of bloody week in Holy Land as U.N. envoy exerts West’s pressure

  • A British auto racer is spilled to fiery death
  • Monaco mania – Cartoonist Rowland Emett depicts the little country’s prewedding delirium
  • A Look at the World’s Week

    • EDITORIALS:

  • A letter to Khruschchev
  • Moral dilemma on campus

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Prodigous music maker – the world honors Mozart on his 200th Anniversary – Photographed for LIFE by Gjon Mili – 14 pages, most in color

  • Clubfooted boy from Dominican Republic gets new feet and a home in the U.S. – Photographed for LIFE by Joern Gerdts

    • ARTICLE:

  • Star’s legend in the making – Jayne Mansfield talks dumb but heads for the top by Ernest Havemann – 7 pages (5 are half-pages though)

    • THEATER:

  • Frank Loesser’s “The Most Happy Fella” is a musical landmark

    • SPORTS:
    Swimmer Orrin Nordstrom wear gloves, shoes while training

    ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Beauty for a big top – a French artist decks circus in flowery finery – 4 pages in color by Marcel Vertes

    • SCIENCE:

  • “In frogs…the universe” – Jean Rostand, son of the famous playwright, finds a rich life in his scientific studies

    • MOVIES:

  • Alfred Hitchcock does a hair-raiser in a concert hall
  • Marlon Brando makes up like an Okinawan for “Teahouse” role

    • RELIGION:

  • Church for the deaf conducts its services in sign language

    • ANIMALS:

  • Opo the dolphin has a brief summer of happiness taking New Zealand swimmers for a ride

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • New loot for children – a new book tells where and how to acquire 1,200 gifts for the asking

    • TELEVISION:

  • Man bites like dog as Lassie and Perry Como get TV awards

    • ART:

  • Cult of the kitchen sink – British emphasize the sordid

    • MUSIC:

  • Brother Matthew at the jam session – a great saxophonist leaves the monastery briefly for a jazz performance

    • MEDICINE:

  • A nbew technique for collecting blood plasma increases production by giving the corpuscles back to the donors

    • PARTY:

  • En route to Mexico for her wedding, Grace Kelly plays hard at The Game – Photographed by Howell Conant – 4 pages, b&w, of Grace Kelly playing charades, 13 photos total

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: three miffed misses yearn for other roles

    • 1956-04-16 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/04/16 — Cover featuring Berber Girls credited to David Douglas Duncan

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

  • As world worries about Middle East, new Egypt shows its strength – Photographed for LIFE by David Douglas Duncan – 8 pages including full-page b&w photo of Nasser
  • Nature triggers tornado season and man fights it
  • Salesman with understanding boss gives pros fits in the Masters featuring Ken Venturi

  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Odyssey of a daft raft – landlubbers trying to outdo “Kon-Tiki” take a long Pacific voyage to nowehere

    • EDITORIAL:

  • Is the income tax just?

    • PICTORIAL ESSAY:

  • Man shapes his environment – the domestication of plants and animals gave man his greatest victory in battle against nature — Part 4 of “The Epic of Man” – Text by Lincoln Barnett, Photographs for LIFE by David Douglas Duncan and Frank Scherschel. Paintings by Alton S. Tobey

    • ARTICLE:

  • Glubb Pasha tells how our Middle East enemies work – Arab agitators abetted by Reds, says British general ousted from Jordan, imperil the West’s position

    • FASHION:

  • Bright spot on a bad day – spring brings a deluge of raincoats in new styles and gay prints

    • EDUCATION:
    Parents’ schooldays – a Maryland school puts mom and pop through three days of their children’s curriculum

    TRANSPORTATION:

  • From our horrible highways – Artist Basil Wolverton draws cars for maniac autoists

    • MOVIES:

  • Rotten business in the ring – a wallping film tells of the fixed fights and phony build-up of a boxer – About The Harder They Fall

    • SCIENCE:

  • A turkey that never had a father – Agriculture Department scientist studies hens that produce chicks without any assistance from toms

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Strugn up for sitting down – a make-it-yourslf chair has a seat woven of clothesline

    • MEDICINE:

  • An official warning makes things hotter for Hoxsey’s cancer clinics

    • SPORTS:

  • Bulls baffle brave Bertha – Colombian girl takes a beating but keeps coming back for more

    • NATURE:

  • Cannibal snail gets a job – A tiny African mollusk is imported to fight a citrus pest

    • PARTY:

  • A wistful reunion at Pickfair – Mary Pickford gathers famous film figures of 1920s – Includes photos of Pickford with Francis X. Bushman, Antonio Moreno, plus the Duncan Sisters, Anna Q. Nilsson with Harold Lloyd and Annette Kellerman, William Boyd with Jack Oakie and Russell Simpson, Hedda Hopper and Marion Davies

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: a swimsuit that really gets around
  • Miscellany: Paddles and the poodles

    • 1956-04-02 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/04/02 — Cover photograph featuring Teenage Telephone Tie-Up is credited to Grey Villet

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

  • Hand That Shook the Democrats – Estes Kefauver moves to front after defeating Adlai Stevenson in Minnesota Primary
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • U.S. Breaks into the Frozen Continent of Antarctica – Photographed for LIFE by Fritz Goro

  • Snowfall Samaritans rescue a mailman in New York Storm

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Resurrection – An event that beggars comment

    • ARTICLE:

  • Barons Against the King — Part 3 of Volume 1 (“The Birth of Britain”) in Sir Winston Churchill’s “History of the English-Speaking Peoples.” Plus a portfolio of paintings by contemporary artists on medieval life

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Skillful arrangements of simple flowers create grand effects – Painted for LIFE by Mary Faulconer
  • Tireless, Talky Teen-agers Keep Telephone Lines Toiling – Photographed for LIFE by Grey Villet

    • FASHION:

  • Designer Luis Estevez – A one-year wonder and his necklines

    • SPORTS:
    San Francisco Dons set a basketball victory record the easy way – Photos include Bill Russell and K.C. Jones

    RADIO AND TV:

  • Fans and Friends Mourn Fred Allen

    • RELIGION:

  • Catholics Revise Easter with ancient rites and modern notes

    • YOUTH:

  • Kansas City children cut capers in a shopping center zoo

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: The Matching Poujades
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: The Snow Also Rises

    • 1956-03-26 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/03/26 — Cover photograph featuring Julie Andrews is credited to Leonard McCombe

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

  • Trouble to the east plagues the West – Troubles in the Middle East

  • The man who won Margaret Truman — Meet Clifton Daniel
  • Gas bill lobby’s tangled trail
  • Plots (including cemetery) full of poison
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Marooned passengers photograph their own ordeal as the “Washington Mail” sinks in Gulf of Alaska

    • EDITORIAL:

  • “A new vision playing on old facts”

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Norman Conquest – Part 2 of Volume 1 (“The Birth of Britain”) in Sir Winston Churchill’s “History of the English-Speaking Peoples”

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Famous English battlefields – 8 pages of color illustrating the Churchill article – Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel

    • EDUCATION:

  • Blind for a day – An Arizona physics teacher blindfolds his students to dramatize the story of light

    • THEATER:
    Shaw’s “Pygmalion” with Rex Harrison and Julie Andrews makes a fine Broadway musical

    MEDICINE:

  • U.S. atoms for peace exhibit builds a Japanese archway to atomic moons

    • ART:

  • A German-born Yale professor trains art students with optical tricks

    • MOVIES:

  • Alec Guinness , as a prelate, a prince and a prowler, is good for three new films at once

    • AVIATION:

  • British “Droop Snoot” jet fighter sets world speed record

    • SCIENCE:

  • Old bones make a big stew: some think Italy’s Oreopithecus is ancestor of apes, some thing of man, some neither

    • YOUTH:

  • Kids with guns: drawing a bead on safety, Indiana Youngsters start at Age 6 learning how to handle firearms

    • SPORTS:

  • Larceny on the links: con men take “friendly” game of golf to a fatal financial hazard for the nation’s golfers – By Marshall Smith

    • FASHION:

  • The rustic bandanna gets down off the farm in spring and summer styles

    • PARTY:

  • Marching back to 1066 – British walker try to match the pace of King Harold’s Saxons and are too tired to fight

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Bubbly British Billow Below Ground
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Dog’s Bath Without Wrath

    • 1956-03-12 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/03/12 — Cover photograph featuring Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited to Hank Walker

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

  • “After weeks of … devoutly prayerful consideration,” the drama of the President’s yes
  • Children for 17 Lands pay Homage to Pope Pius XII on his 80th Birthday
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Europe’s Bad Winter is Cruel to the End
  • No Sign of Peace for Autherine
  • A Mystery Monster Causes SOme Ripples in Henley-on-Thames

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Three Imports of Ike’s Decision
  • “Go slow, now”

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • The Sands of the Desert Turn Gold – Well-Heeled Visitors in the Southwest Enrich Scottsdale, Arizona, as native styles are embellished – Photographed in color for LIFE by Nina Leen
  • A Memo to the Girls – LIFE Shows leap-year husband-seekers some eligible specimens of U.S. bacherlorhood and places where they abound, such as Caspar, Wyoming

    • ARTICLE:

  • Confessions of a Master Jewel Thief – Arthur Barry, great second-story man, looks back on a $10 million life in crime by Robert Wallace

    • MILITARY AFFAIRS:

  • Set to strike in the shadows: the U.S. Army trains a special corps of many-skilled men to operate behind enemy lines

    • SCIENCE:
    Tiny plastic lens is promising new solution for eye cataracts

    MODERN LIVING:

  • In colorful models Cleveland shows how a city fights decay

    • NATURE:

  • Horace the housebroken hare enjoys his Dublin house

    • SPORTS:

  • The world’s biggest serve: smashing triumphs over Trabert prove Pancho Gonzalez is best in tennis

    • ART:

  • English sculptor uses menbers of his congregation as models for a church facade

    • THEATER:

  • Eugene O’Neill ‘s last tragedy, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” produced in Stockholm, tells the playwright’s own family story

    • FASHION:

  • U.S. Men Gets Recapped: Slimmed-Down Sports Headgear Shows Up in Town

    • MUSIC:

  • A 23-year-old Canadian, Glenn Gould, looms as the Continent’s most astonishing young pianist

    • PARTY:

  • Turnout for a top Italian – President Giovanni Gronchi whirls through four days in Washington

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Aerial Artistry by the Acre
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: An Antigravity Goat

    • 1956-03-05 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/03/05 — Cover photograph featuring Kim Novak is credited to Leonard McCombe

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

  • The Golden Youth of Communism – An Exclusive Report on a Growing Army of Soviet Scientists – Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark

  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Despite Arrests Montgomery Negroes Carry On Their Bold Bus Boycott – Includes small photos of Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King
  • Greek Voters Stave Off Communist Comeback in Close Win for the West
  • A 16-Story Scoop, World’s Largest, Rolls to Work in Ohio
  • Failure of Faith Leads a Florida Faith Healer to Trouble

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The New Communist Line

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • An Age of Guilded Opulence – Part 8 of “America’s Arts and Skills” Shows How Vigor Expanded Victorian Taste – Photographed for LIFE by Bradley Smith
  • A Lovely Girl Tries to Catch Up With Her Runaway Career – Kim Novak moves uncertainly in a new world of movie fame – Photographed for LIFE by Leonard McCombe

    • ARTICLES:

  • A Letter to the North – William Faulkner , the South’s foremost writer, warns on integration: “Stop Now, for a Moment”
  • The Agonizing Odyssey of Two People in Love – A Young Chinese Couple Battle U.S. Immigration Restrictions for the right to be Together Again by William Brinkley

    • FASHION:

  • Waists at new high: Empire silhouette breaks out again

    • SPORTS:
    Winter diver “saves” himself in an ice-covered lake

  • World champ at last, Skater Carol Heiss cries at Garmisch

    • ANIMALS:

  • Latchkey for bachelor cat leaves Wisconsin owner undisturbed

    • EDUCATION:

  • Westchester Grammar School Dramatists Invent Their Own Productions

    • THEATER:

  • David Wayne as an incorrigible saint in Broadway’s new “Ponder Heart” hilariously disrupts a community

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Electronic oracle charts the value of home insulation

    • MUSIC:

  • New teen-tune hits are based on out-of-date styles

    • SCIENCE:

  • A Peeping Tom device makes light of the night

    • TRANSPORTATION:

  • Houston Has a One-Track Hanging Train

    • PARTY:

  • How to Give Children’s Parties: Part 2 – Using LIFE’s Part Rules, a Connecticut Mother finds way to success is to keep the guests moving – Photographed for LIFE by Walter Sanders

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Leap for Life, a Lunge for Lunch
  • Miscellany: Screams in the Sky
  • 2-page color ad — “Norman Rockwell Says Pan American Was My Magic Carpet Around the World” with 8 small color Rockwell illustrations surrounding the text on the pages

    • 1956-02-27 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/02/27 — Cover featuring Eskimo Family is credited to Fritz Goro

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

  • The U.S. Races for a Supermissile
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • The verdict is able–is Eisenhower willing?
  • Adlai Stevenson Emerges from a Brush With Death
  • A stop and go order on arms for Arabia
  • The end of the rope for Englishmen
  • Grateful California towns say thank you to 4,000 GIs who saved them from total flood ruin

    • EDITORIAL:

  • The Real Farm Problem

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • The Growing of Society – as the earth warmed at the end of the Ice Age, man set up communities on the sea and lake shore — Part 3 of The Epic of Man – Text by Lincoln Barnett

  • The World of Pooh Lives On — A.A. Milne, who died last month, leaves his magic to all childhood – 6-1/2 pages

    • ARTICLE:

  • How to ease the burdens of the world’s most burdensome job: the President’s illness points up the need to free his office from archaic superstructure and endless protocol – by Robert Coughlan

    • FASHION:

  • Dressed Up With Shorts – Palm Beach Society Helps Informal Outfits Off to a Sylish Start

    • MODERN LIVING:
    A Treasury of Old Tubbery – Display bares man’s quest fr cleanliness dating back to 500 B.C.

    THEATER:

  • Movie gangster Edward G. Robinson returns triumphantly to Broadway as a lovelorn widower

    • SPORTS:

  • Champion toy poodle wins the Westminster Dog Show top prize with his elegance and beauty

    • PARTY:

  • High glee at a political jubilee – Leader Hugh Gaitskell is life of party at big Labor Celebration

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Whole Race at a Glance
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: Trusting a Tomcat

    • 1956-02-13 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/02/13 — Cover featuring Harry S. Truman and General Douglas MacArthur is credited to the U.S. Department of Defense

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

  • In Winter Olympics, Russians overshadow everyone but the one-man slam skier of Austria
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Balloon Goes Up and the Candidates Soar Among the Democrats
  • Washington Extends a Welcome for Old Friend Anthony Eden and Joins HIm in a Pledge for Peace
  • Perry Como ‘s Rapid Rise Arouses Gleason’s Network — And Jackie Gleason
  • An 8-year-old French Prodigy Settles a Furor By Writing a Poem

    • EDITORIAL:

  • A Hole in NATO’s Dyke

    • ARTICLES:

  • The Recall of General MacArthur – In Part 4 of the Memoirs of Harry Truman tells of clashes over policy that led to the recall when “I could no longer tolerate his insubordination”
  • General MacArthur Makes His Reply – He accuses Truman of “fallible” memory and dodging a court of inquiry by waiting until now to bring up “this belated claim of insubordination”

    • PICTORIAL ESSAYS:

  • Lusty art of a Lost People – Italy’s Ancient Etruscans come boldly to life in the works they left behind – Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
  • What I like about Living in San Francisco – Written and Photographed for LIFE by N.R. Farbman

    • MOVIES:

  • Benny Goodman is heard but not seen as Steve Allen does the clarinetist’s story on film

    • ANIMALS:
    Wild beasts at a Milwaukee banquet help stock new zoo

    THEATER:

  • Artist Jacob Landau ‘s Drawings Form a Colorful background for Photos of Margaret Sullavan ‘s double life in “Janus”

    • NIGHTCLUBS:

  • Her club contract keeps Dancer Neile Adams from a big job

    • PARTY:

  • Brazil’s New President has a public palace-warming

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Rare photograph shows assassination plotters present at Lincoln’s inaugeration
  • Letters to the Editors
  • Miscellany: a draft aft

    • 1956-02-06 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/02/06 — Cover featuring Shirley Jones is credited to William Helburn

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

  • South Rises Again in Campaign to Delay Integration
  • Graph and Flares Shed Light on Disastrous California train wreck
  • Congress has a gassy debate over natural gas rates
  • Finns repossess as Russians surrender a lease
  • A Look at the World’s Week

    • EDITORIALS:

  • An artist confined
  • Artists at Liberty

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • Wild birds in flight – Color pictures made of 5,000th of a second by a Newark, N.Y. nurseryman win $5,000 first prize in LIFE–P.S.A. Essay Contest
  • First of a new LIFE series, how to gie children’s parties – celebrating the birthday of a 4-year-old, a Connecticut mother uses new rules drawn up by the director of the Gesell Institute and finds simplicity brings success – Photographed for LIFE by Nina Leen

    • ARTICLES:

  • Tough Decisions in Korean Crisis – in Part 3 of The Truman Memoirs the former President describes tense top-level debates in Washington while friction developed with MacArthur
  • The Commuters’ Rebellion – Patrick McGinnis, as the New Haven Railroad Chief achieves a Unique Peak of Unpopularity – By Robert Wallace

    • SEQUEL:

  • Social Note from Moscow – “Porgy” actors have Russian Wedding

    • FASHION:
    Switches on Secretary’s Suit – Eva Maria Saint’s outfit in a new movie makes a whole week’s wardrobe

    THEATER:

  • “True Limit!” Studies the Dilemma of Korean Turncoats

    • SCIENCE:

  • A new three-dimensional fabric – Trilok, puts to use the shrinking tendencies of a plastic

    • ART:

  • Reginald Marsh – Swarming City Scenes by a “U.S. Hogarth” Go On a Year-Long Tour of the Country

    • MOVIE:

  • A new star enlivens film revival of musical favorite, “Carousel”

    • ARCHITECTURE:

  • A Japanese hotel, its sixth story on tracks, spins its top

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Sculptor Noguchi transforms an African stool into modern furniture for teeterers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: A Mirage in the Arctic
  • Miscellany: pedaling a fiddle

    • 1956-01-23 Life Magazine Contents

    1956/01/23 — Cover featuring Harry S Truman is credited to John Dominis

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

  • Robbery Team That Stole $1 Million from Brink’s in 1950 After Elaborate Rehearsals is Seized on Deadline by F.B.I.
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Florida’s Fattest Tourist Fling – Millions Seek a Place in the Sun
  • A New Farm Bill Tops Congressional List of Important Measures
  • Liberia Re-Inaugurates Tubman President as Russians Horn In
  • A Munificent Party-Giver Is Arrested for Embezzlement

    • EDITORIAL:

  • Truman, China and History

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY:

  • The Living Immortals of the Silent Screen as Picked by the Movies’ Pioneers, Are Shown as They Were and Are – Then & Now Photos of Mary Pickford – Gloria Swanson – Harold Lloyd – Buster Keaton – Norma Talmadge – Mae Marsh – Ronald Colman – Richard Barthelmess – Lillian Gish – Charlie Chaplin – 8 pages, several large photos with a little text for each star

    • ARTICLE:

  • The Truman Memoirs, Volume 2 – In the First of Five Installments from “Years of Trial and Hope,” Harry Truman Tells Why He Sent George Marshall to China in 1946 and How the Mission Failed. With 9 Color Portraits of Truman’s Top Aides as They Appear Today

    • SEQUEL:

  • In a True Thriller Berlin Kidnap Victims Flee Red Grip

    • ART:
    Museum Director’s Choice – A Sunny Fleeting Moment by Mary Cassatt , picked by the head of Washington’s Corcoran Gallery

    ANIMALS:

  • Kennel Club Recognizes, for First Time in a Decade, a New Breed of Dog – The Rough and REady Rhodesian Ridgeback

    • SPORTS:

  • U.S. Puts Best Foot Forward With Two Pretty Olympic Skaters – Carol Heiss and Tenley Albright

    • FASHION:

  • Bare Midriffs Are Back as Spring Buyers Snap Up New Designs

    • THEATER:

  • Thornton Wilder ‘s “Matchmaker” Blends Hokum and Wisdom Into Funniest Fracas on Broadway

    • SCIENCE:

  • New X-Ray Device Uses Powder to Take Detailed Photographs

    • PARTY:

  • Seattle Bus Riders Get Free Rides, Flowers and Fruit as City-Owned Line Popularizes 100 New Buses

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Speaking of Pictures: A Kansas Paint Dealer Sculptures His Home Towners In Cement
  • Miscellany: No Neck on Deck

    • 1955-05-30 Life Magazine Contents

    1955/05/30 — Cover featuring Historic Playing Cards is credited to Arnold Newman, courtesy of Guy de Lagerberg.

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

  • The chances for peace in 1955, an expert evaluation
  • New island will be first link in US offshore radar warning chain
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Tense time on a Winnipeg TV Tower
  • Color film records A-blast ruin as Civil Defense watches from afar
  • A parched Oklahomatown prays and dresses up for rain. It comes.

    • EDITORIALS:

  • Security and fair play
  • Diplomacy for the millions

    • PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS:

  • America’s Arts and Skills, Part II: the look of liberty in craftmanship as patriotism becomes the American theme. Photographed for LIFE by Arnold Newman
  • Spring on a farm: under a warming sun the growing season’s work begins. Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark

    • ARTICLE:

  • Dead end for the US highway, by Herbert Brean. What is wrong with the road you’ll be using this weekend, what made it that way and what can be done about it

    • FASHION:

  • France’s bigtime dressmakers turn a hand to playclothes

    • EDUCATION:
    Colby undergrads dedicate a cleanup day to president emeritus who did most to get new campus built

    MOVIES:

  • Film version of “The Seven Year Itch” gives a reassuring answer to a burning question about Marilyn Monroe — Opens with a 6″ X 13″ photo of Marilyn and follows with 6 more pics of Marilyn ranging in size from 2-1/2″ X 4″ to 4-1/2″ X 5-3/4″

    • ART:

  • The Queen of England poses for the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editors
  • Speaking of Pictures: Grace Kelly’s Riviera romance
  • Sequel: US and USSR Elbe veterans reunite in Moscow
  • Party: Student high jinks add zest to Norway’s “Fourth of July”
  • Miscellany: A seat for 17
  • Corn Flakes ad illustrated by Stevan Dohanos
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on the Back Cover

    • 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

    • 1955-04-11 Life Magazine Contents

    1955/04/11 — Cover featuring Grace Kelly is credited to Philippe Halsman.

    Contents of this issue are as follows:

  • Speaking of Pictures: Candid photos of sidewalk typists show some candid writing
  • Letters to the Editors
  • US gets set for polio vaccine: Drug houses stock up as results as optimistically awaited from Salk tests
  • A Look at the World’s Week
  • Italy’s Premier Mario Scelba wins friends for himself and his country on a thank-you visit to the US
  • The Tribune’s colonel dies: A rich and full life ends at 74 for Robert R. McCormick
  • Editorial: Ways to God
  • What goes on inside atomic sub
  • Preview for penguins: Antarctic visit of US Navy ship breaks way for an international expedition
  • New radiance for churches: The ancient art of stained-glass windows is revived by modern designers
  • Small-as-life copies: Window dummies are twins of child fashion models
  • Daring quest by jet boat: England’s Don Campbell seeks water speed record but prepares to do it safely
  • Stair-climbing wheel chair: A set of motor-driven windmilling wheels rools invalids backward up steps
  • Beautiful blossoming shrubs: Paintings in color by Anne Ophelia Todd of 12 of best floweing bushes to plant in spring
  • Witty wisdom in poet’s play: Christopher Fry’s “The Dark Is Light Enough” is full of good talk
  • Chickens over glass: Photographer gets a worm’s-eye view of brooding hen
  • High lady’s high jinks: England’s rich Lady Docker
  • Oscar winners pull a switch: Boisterous Brando is a perfect gentleman and imperturbably Kelly breaks down
  • LIFE’s Photographic Essay: The encroaching menace of the slims and what Chicago is doing about it
  • LIFE’s Article: Has the US discovered a new religion? Paul Hutchinson examines our spiritual trends
  • Tiny movie-makers in toyland: Industrial Designer invents a home movie kit for kids
  • Happy Change for a Heavy: Hollywood villain Ernest Borgnine plays a gentle hero (in “Marty”)
  • A big bank merger and a bigger one continue a business trend
  • Miscellany: Briton swabs the waves
  • Lucky Strikes Cigarettes ad on the Back Cover