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1956-07 See Magazine Contents

1956/07 – Featured on the front cover is Jayne Mansfield

Contents are as follows:

The World Today:

  • America’s 20 Most Dangerous Cities by Alson J. Smith
  • We Are Losing Our Race for the Death Missile! by Congressman Melvin Price

    • Personalities:

  • Will Success Spoil Jayne Mansfield? – 4 pages
  • Angel of Charity
  • Inside Sinatra – $1,000,000 Worth of Loneliness by Allen Churchill – Frank Sinatra
  • Soldier With a Problem by Robert Benevy

    • Entertainment:

  • Celebrity in Town – Rhonda Fleming – 3 pages
  • “Les Girls” of the Folies-Bergere by Paul Derval

    • Foreign Scene:

  • Operation Starvation by Harrison Forman
  • The Strange Case of Padre Pio – stigmata

    • Sports:

  • Contest for Iron Men

    • Features:

  • Murder in “The Room”
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1956-05 See Magazine Contents

    1956/05 – Featured on the front cover is Joan Collins as well as a smaller black & white photo of Ernest Hemingway

    Contents are as follows:

    The World Today:

  • Runaway Husbands – A National Epidemic by William T. Hartnage
  • After You’ve Crashed
  • “The Middle of Hell” – Bourbon Street

    • Personalities:

  • Rita Gam – Cheesecake Isn’t for Actresses
  • Hemingway – His Search for Love and Death by John Owen – 4 pages, with photos
  • Fred Allen – The Easiest Job in the World
  • The Man Behind the Picture
  • Dream Behind Bars

    • Entertainment:

  • Global Glamour Girl – Joan Collins
  • 24-Hour Notice

    • Foreign Scene:

  • Waves of Terror
  • Look What’s In the Congo

    • Sports:

  • Horseplay a la Mode

    • Features:

  • Making the Suit Fit the Clime
  • See Salures – Denise Lor
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1956-01 See Magazine Contents

    1956/01 – Featured on the front cover is Judy Mason

    Contents are as follows:

    The World Today:

  • The 5 Soviet Sneak-Punches That Changed History by E.H. Cookridge
  • You Live in a Firetrap! by Paul W. Kearney
  • How I Was Saved from Suicide by Lillian Roth – with photos of Roth herself and of Susan Hayward playing Roth in I’ll Cry Tomorrow – 3 pages total
  • The Global Battle Against Prostitution

    • Personalities:

  • Matadora – Bette Ford
  • Jan Murray and Company
  • A Surgeon’s Race

    • Entertainment:

  • Pony Girl – Judy Mason
  • Enter Elsa – Elsa Martinelli

    • Foreign Scene:

  • Spade, Pickax and Cross
  • Drug Caravan

    • Sports:

  • It’s All in the Game

    • Features:

  • Man in a Straitjacket
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1955-03 See Magazine Contents

    1955/03 – Featured on the front cover is Gina Lollobrigida

    Contents are as follows:

    Spotlight:

  • This Is Total Peril!
  • A Submarine You Can Buy

    • Behind the Headlines:

  • We Can Stop the Reds in 1955 by General Claire Chennault
  • The Iron Fist of God by Eugene Tillinger about Cardinal Mindszenty

    • Personalities:

  • A Gabor Spoofs a Dior – Eva Gabor
  • Oh, For the Life of a Photographer
  • TV’s Toughest Drill Major about June Taylor

    • Cover Story:

  • Sin and Spectacle about Italy’s Movie Industry with photos of Lollobrigida, Sophia Loren, Silvana Mangano, Rosanna Podesta

    • This Violent World:

  • Deadly Dance
  • Bloody Villains Become Movie Heroes

    • Medicine:

  • Where Young Drug Addicts Take the Cure

    • Sports:

  • How to Watch a Basketball Game by Haskell Cohen

    • Features:

  • What Are They?
  • Claytime for Charlie
  • Test Your TV Memory

    • 1955-01 See Magazine Contents

    1955/01 – Featured on the front cover is Jane Russell

    Contents are as follows:

    Spotlight:

  • Monroe versus Mangano – 5 pages, mostly photos: 4 photos of Marilyn Monroe and 6 photos (including 2 full-page) of Silvana Mangano
  • He Left His Sons the World

    • Behind the Headlines:

  • The Murder of a Soviet Leader – How Beria Died

    • Personalities:

  • How a Comic-Strip Star Is Born – Al Capp and Bob Lubbers of Long Sam
  • Broadway’s Bounciest Star – Janis Paige
  • My Man Miltie – Ruth Cosgrove and Milton Berle
  • Mr. and Mrs. Music Makers

    • Cover Story:

  • Jane Russell – Goodbye, Mr. Hughes?

    • This Violent World:

  • Teenage Savagery
  • Israel’s Bloody Border

    • Medicine:

  • Dead Man’s Eye

    • Sports:

  • Catching the Toughest Fish Alive – Gar

    • Features:

  • Purely Personal
  • Battle of the Sexes
  • Copy Cat
  • Road Signs

    • 1954-11 See Magazine Contents

    1954/11 – Featured on the front cover is Marilyn Monroe

    Contents are as follows:

  • Will the Reds Take Latin America? By George Fielding Eliot
  • Glamour Photography
  • Mau Mau Warmup
  • The Sex Criminal’s Story by Max Maher
  • Savage Cows
  • England’s Prettiest – Belinda Lee
  • Bud Wilkinson – Coach of the Year? by Curt Gowdy
  • Clerics at Play
  • Why You Like French Girls by Denise Darcel
  • Stop That Fight! by Chris Schenkel
  • Frontier Fiesta
  • Big Family
  • Catskill Weekend

    • Also:

  • Sultry Sophia Loren
  • Letters

    • 1954-09 See Magazine Contents

    1954/09 – Featured on the front cover is Cyd Charisse

    Contents are as follows:

  • “I Have Killed for Mercy” by Martin Abramson
  • Marine Marina – Marina Vlady
  • Has the Sultan Nine Lives?
  • Illegitimacy: The Sex Problem We Dare Not Face by Cyrus W. Bell and Laetitia Bolton
  • See’s Cover Queens – Features small repro of the cover with larger photo of each: Rita Hayworth, Arlene Dahl, Marilyn Monroe, Ava Gardner, Elizabeth Taylor, Elaine Stewart, Mary Sinclair, Jane Russell
  • Tornado!
  • “Stop Hanging!”
  • Sheree Flip features Sheree North
  • Day With a Shoe Salesman
  • Dixie, Bop or Swing? by Artie Shaw
  • College Beauty Contest
  • TV’s Only Disc Jockey – Paul Dixon
  • My Favorite Sports Pictures by Curt Gowdy
  • Girls Around Gotham

    • Also:

  • Something to Shout About – Cyd Charisse
  • Shah and Peasant
  • Letters

    • 1954-03 See Magazine Contents

    1954/03 – Featured on the front cover is Elaine Stewart with smaller photos of Senator Homer Ferguson – Dorothy Dandridge – Jackie Gleason

    Contents are as follows:

  • Brain Washing – World-Wide Red Atrocity by Edward Hunter
  • Fear at a Feast
  • Rome–Europe’s Movie Capital
  • New Man
  • Tops in ’53
  • Prostitution – Vice or Virtue? by Polly Adler
  • “Zugspitzartisen” Terrify U.S.
  • Dorothy is Dynamite – Dorothy Dandridge
  • Who’s New In Pro Basketball by Curt Gowdy
  • Red Alert: New York
  • Should Women Be Barred from Sports? by Cyrus Rice
  • Pie in the Eye
  • Now How Do You Like Ike? by Senator Homer Ferguson
  • Girls, Girls, Girls, Girls by Jackie Gleason

    • Also

  • See Queens Make Good – Includes photo of Elaine Stewart
  • Action! Camera!
  • Don’t Lose Your Head
  • Polio Patient
  • Letters

    • 1953-11 See Magazine Contents

    1953/11 – Featured on the front cover is Marilyn Monroe

    Contents are as follows:

  • Is Soviet Russia Collapsing? By Eugene Lyons
  • Paricutin in 10
  • Art Show at Coney Island
  • Big-City Vice Girls by John M. Murtagh
  • Whaling in the Pacific
  • “Nice to See You,” George White
  • They’re Afraid of the Single Wing by Charley Caldwell
  • Top Models
  • My Toughest Fight by Joe Louis
  • What’s In a Kiss?
  • “Get Out of Our Town” by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
  • How to Become a Celebrity by Sherman Billingsley

    • Also:

  • “That Girl Marilyn” – 3 photos of Marilyn Monroe over 2 pages plus a small picture of “That Girl Marilyn” a book by Jane Russell which is what this brief blurb of an article is really about.
  • Action! Camera!
  • Kiddies Cornered
  • Riding High
  • Taper Dance – Sheila Bond
  • Letters

    • 1953-09 See Magazine Contents

    1953/09 – Featured on the front cover is Virginia Mayo with smaller photos of Malenkov – Ingrid Bergman – Allie Reynolds

    Contents are as follows:

  • I Escaped from Malenkov by Igor Bogolepov
  • Ingrid and Her Babies
  • Hidden Hangings of Awe Mau Maus
  • The Secret Life of Farouk and Company by Serge Fliegers
  • Spotlight on Sally – Sally Forrest
  • The Comeback of the Pitcher by Curt Gowdy
  • How to Sleep
  • American Men are Men by Corinne Calvet
  • Into the Fire
  • Lynn’s 100 Days – Lynn Connor
  • I Married a Comedian by Mrs. Joey Adams
  • It’s a Tossup
  • The Artist and the Copa Girls featuring Peter Hopkins
  • 20,000,000 Veterans Unite for Peace by Gilbert A. Harrison

    • Also:
    Can-Can on Broadway featuring Gwen Verdon

  • What Have These Women in Common?
  • Dog Downs Man

  • Camera! Action!
  • Letters

    • 1953-01 See Magazine Contents

    1953/01 – Featured on the front cover is Anne Baxter with smaller photos of Eleanor Roosevelt – Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis – Batista of Cuba

    Contents are as follows:

  • The World Narcotic Cartel by Will Oursler
  • Hellzarollin’ – The Skating Vanities of 1953
  • HIgh Adventure
  • Miss Show Business features Judy Garland
  • The Children Fight for Life by Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Miss See 1953
  • Go! Go! Go! features Big Jay McNeely
  • Death Highway
  • All-Star Sportscasters by Curt Gowdy
  • Dealers, Dollars, Street-Side Scholars
  • Naomi the Jungle Queen Draws Throngs
  • A Joint Statement by Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
  • He Took Cuba — Twice by Dr. Felix W. Bernadino about General Batista
  • Close Shaves in Sports

    • Also:

  • Big Girls on Broadway
  • New Style Siren – Anne Baxter
  • Letters

    • 1950-11 See Magazine Contents

    1950/11 – Featured on the front cover is Roxanne Rosedale

    Contents are as follows:

  • Giant of Journalism – The Walter Winchell Story by Ed Weiner
  • Leading Lensman – Camera-Artist 4: Don Ornitz
  • Oriental Addicts – Opium–Big Business in Asia
  • Gallic Glamour – Fresh French Faces
  • Legendary Logging – Timber
  • Court Queen – Gorgeous Gussy Moran
  • Legal Labyrinth – Let’s Clean Up Our Sex Laws! by Robert Viet Sherwin and Morton Hunt
  • Tulip Time – Holland, U.S.A.
  • The Movies – “Destination Moon” – 4 pages, loaded with photos
  • West Coast Capers – Night Life in San Francisco
  • America Speaks – Should a Woman Pursue the Man She Wants to Marry?

    • Also:

  • See–The World in Pictures
  • Waif in Dublin
  • Cartoons — Jefferson Machamer, Emidio Angelo, W.E. Trent, Jr., William Von Riegen
  • Letters

    • 1950-07 See Magazine Contents

    1950/07 – Featured on the front cover is Bonnie Brazette

    Contents are as follows:

    A See Exclusive:

  • The Amazing Roosevelts by Bela Kornitzer
  • Seaside Style – U.S. Sun Sirens Go Modest
  • Diamond Drama – “My Favorite Baseball Picture”
  • Marriage Guideposts – How to Choose a Mate by William Longfield, M.D.
  • Broadway’s Best – America’s Ten Most Beautiful Showgirls by John Murray Anderson
  • Palestine Pioneers – Youth Blooms in Israel
  • Leading Lensman – Camera-Artists – 2: Earl Leaf
  • Buyers Beware – Thieves’ Market
  • The Movies – “Deported” starring Jeff Chandler, Marta Toren and Marina Berti
  • Master in Marble – “The Titan”
  • Book Review – The Frenchman and the Baby
  • Parisian Outpost – Montmartre in Gotham
  • America Speaks – Can a Woman Be Happily Married to a Man Younger Than Herself

    • Also:

  • See the World in Pictures
  • Gator Against Man
  • Cartoons: Jefferson Machamer, Michael Berry, Charles Strauss, W.E. Trent, Jr
  • Seeworthy
  • Letters

    • 1949-07 See Magazine Contents

    1949/07 – Featured on the front cover is Dorothy Sykes

    Contents are as follows:

  • Free Enterprise – Is America Safe for Democracy? By Morris L. Ernst
  • Style Trend – 1949 Beachwear Allows Maximum Exposure
  • Native Talent – Cross-Section of U.S. Art
  • Great Expectations – What Truman’s Election Means to Labor by Victor Riesel
  • Roman Holiday – Mardi Gras Carnival
  • Object Lessons – Lifesaving Campaign
  • Distaff Doctors – Women in Medicine

    • The Movies:

  • “NIght Unto Night” starring Viveca Lindfors with Ronald Reagan
  • See-Able and Agreeable

  • One for Ripley – Party at Toots Shor’s
  • Conventual Initiation – Bride of the Cloister
  • America Speaks – Does “Mom” Dominate the Modern Household

    • Also:

  • See-Worthy Pictures
  • Charity Ball Features Fancy Hats
  • Londoners Applaud Submarine “Swimtease”
  • Cartoons by Jack Morrow, Emidio Angelo, Thurston Gentry, Burr Shafer
  • Arctic Specimens in Equatorial Embrace
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1949-03 See Magazine Contents

    1949/03 – Featured on the front cover is Ann Converse

    Contents are as follows:

  • Soviet Tactics – Russia Need Not Risk War by Martin Ebon
  • Caveat Vendor – Eighth-Grade Food Inspectors
  • Benefit Performance – Hollywood Circus
  • Exorable Tradition – Japan’s Geishas Abandon Pre-War Techniques by Lucy Herndon Crockett
  • Beautiful Dummies – Shop-Window Manikins Restyled for New Look
  • Picture History – Photographic Landmarks
  • Cradle of Genius – Art School is 300 Years Old
  • Battling Behemoths – Elephant Fight
  • Unborn Star – Ann Converse – Cinema Candidate

    • The Movies:

  • “The Boy With Green Hair” featuring Dean Stockwell
  • See-Able and Agreeable
  • Economic Anachronism – Vermont Country Store
  • America Speaks – Which Are the Happiest Years of Our Lives

    • Also:

  • See-Worthy Pictures
  • Nudists Assemble at Annual Convention
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1948-09 See Magazine Contents

    1948/09 – Featured on the front cover is Corky Crowley

    Contents are as follows:

  • Blunt Report – How Close Are We to War With Russia? By Cecil Brown
  • Photo Show – The Finest in Photography
  • Modern Fable – “New Look”-ing Cinderella
  • Black Market Spies – Berlin–Spy Center of the World by John Lewis Carver
  • Art Form – Unclassical Ballet
  • Book Review – “Best of Art”
  • Beach Attire – New Bathing Suit Hits Sweden’s Beaches
  • Junior Fisherfolk – Bass for the Boys

    • The Movies:

  • “Joan of Arc” starring Ingrid Bergman
  • See-Able and Agreeable

  • Vain Vigil – Late, Great Profile about John Barrymore
  • America Speaks – Should Sex Education for Teen-agers Be Encouraged?

    • Also:

  • See-Worthy Pictures
  • Cartoons – by Reamer Keller, Al Ross, R.C. Dell, Louis Priscilla
  • Dramatic Actress Cuts Rug featuirng Anna Neagle
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1948-07 See Magazine Contents

    1948/07 – Featured on the front cover is Barbara Nichols

    Contents are as follows:

  • Nazis at Work – These Are the Poor Germans by Sigrid Schultz
  • Boy Wonder – Eleven-Year-Old Earns Critics’ Acclaim
  • Prize Pictures – “Graphic” Artistry
  • Art Form – Hartmans Famed for Dance Caricatures
  • Style Trend – The Vanishing Swimsuit – Includes 3″ X 12″ photo of “Starlet” Marilyn Monroe
  • American Way – Must We Choose Between Dictatorship and Depression? by Sen. Joseph C. O’Mahoney
  • Candid Camera – Baby Photographer
  • New Look – Leap Year Lingerie is Frilly and Flirtatious

    • The Movies:

  • “The Lady From Shanghai” starring Orson Welles and Rita Hayworth
  • See-Able and Agreeable
  • Sight Unseen – Gadget Club Reaps Whirlwind
  • America Speaks – Is Modern Girl Less Moral Than Her Predecessors?

    • Also:

  • See-Worthy Pictures
  • Cartoons – by Herb Williams, Al Ross, Reamer Keller, Barney Tobey
  • Portuguese Matador Has a Narrow Escape
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1948-05 See Magazine Contents

    1948/05 – Featured on the front cover is Jane Greer

    Contents are as follows:

  • Ignoble Experiment – Why We Are Losing Out in Korea by Betty and Arthur Reef
  • Ballet on Wheels – “Roller Skating Vanities”
  • Hot Spot – Existentialist Bistro
  • Dough Boy – Baby Enjoys Spaghetti Dinner
  • Class Historian – Art With a Message featuring Ben Shahn
  • Wham Girl – Underwater Ecdysis Judy Cook
  • Soviet Politics – A Moscow-Berlin Axis Is in the Making by Eugene Tillinger

    • The Movies:

  • “Portrait of Jennie” starring Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotton
  • See-Able and Agreeable
  • Time Keepers – Antique Clocks
  • Book Review – Karl Gullers’ “Sweden” A Dramatized Baedeker
  • America Speaks – Does Average Woman Lack a Sense of Humor?

    • Also:

  • See-Worthy Pictures
  • Plaza’s Birthday Party Recalls Old-Time Dances
  • Cartoons – by Michael Berry, Al Ross, Chas. Strauss, Louis Priscilla
  • Heirloom Pipes
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1948-03 See Magazine Contents

    1948/03 – Featured on the front cover is Jane Russell

    Contents are as follows:

  • Architects of Catastrophe – Will the Farben War Criminals Go Free? By Howard Watson Ambruster
  • Hot Jazz – Swing Street – London
  • Crack Shots – The Year’s Best Newspictures
  • The East Looks West – Are We Losing Free India’s Friendship? by Pearl S. Buck
  • Tonsorial Artists – School for Barbers
  • Art Form – Eye-Catching Calendars featuring Gil Elvgren

    • The Movies:

  • “Gentleman’s Agreement” starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire
  • See-Able and Agreeable
  • Style Trend – The New Silhouette
  • America Speaks – Are Longer Skirts Discouraging Matrimony

    • Also:

  • See-Worthy Pictures
  • Cartoons – by All Ross, Bo Brown, R.C. Dell
  • Nazi Nightclubs Thrive Despite Economic Crisis
  • “Living Statue” Fools Spanish Bull
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1948-01 See Magazine Contents

    1948/01 – Featured on the front cover is Hal Wallis starlet Kristine Miller (nee Jacqueline Olivia Eskesen)

    Contents are as follows:

  • Dollar Diplomacy – Would British Collapse Endanger U.S.? By Vincent Sheean
  • Style Trend – Hold That Hemline!
  • Baby Talk – Radio’s Youngest Disc Jockey

  • Crime Car – Relic of Nazism
  • Success Story – “St. Louis Woman” Takes Fourth Husband – The “St. Louis Woman” is actually Josephine Baker – 2 pages, mostly photos
  • Balkan Tragedy – The Battle for Greece by Jack Esten
  • New Face – Product of France – features Corinne Calvay

    • The Movies:

  • “Forever Amber” featuring Cornel Wilde and Linda Darnell
  • See-Able and Agreeable

  • Hocus Pocus – Tricks for Teenagers
  • Test Tubes – Imaginary Mice Panic Fun House Customers
  • Graphic Arts – Exhibit Dignifies Printmaker’s Art
  • America Speaks – Should Parents Be Punished for Juvenile Delinquency?

    • Also:

  • See-Worthy Pictures
  • Cartoons – by Emidio Angelo, Reamer Keller, Jack Markow, Louis Priscilla
  • Losers Prove Beauty Contest Judge All Wet

  • “Miracle of Human Growth”
  • Letters from See Readers

    • 1947-09 See Magazine Contents

    1947/09 – Featured on the front cover is Myra Keck

    Contents are as follows:

  • History Lesson – What the Truman Doctrine Really Means by Major George Fielding Eliot
  • Trade Secrets – Generating a Shocker
  • Vice Racket – America’s Open Cities by Dr. Walter Clarke
  • Tropical Epic – Return from Matto Grosso
  • Art Form – Jiving Hoofers Stop Show – Sheila Bond and Danny Daniels
  • Artless Artist – Documentary Humanist Henri Cartier-Bresson

    • The Movies

  • “Body and Soul” starring John Garfield and Lilli Palmer
  • See-Able and Agreeable

  • Caveat Emptor – Chiseling Tradesmen Debase Deflated Dollar
  • Night of Nights – Londoners Cast Off War Years’ Gloom
  • Sermons in Stone – Sculptress of Women Marion Sanford
  • America Speaks – Have U.S. Women Lose Pre-War Feminine Charm?

    • Also:

  • See-Worthy Pictures
  • Cartoons – by Lawrence Lariar, Al Ross, Barney Tobey, Jack Markow
  • Smallpox Scare Unnerves Metropolis
  • Letters from See Readers