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1956-05-01 Look Magazine Contents, May 1, 1956

1956-05-01 — Cover photograph of Queen Elizabeth by Baron, Pix

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • How Ike Made Up His Mind by Fletcher Knebel
  • Must Our Air Force Be Second Best? by Trevor Gardner

THE WORLD:

  • The Prince, The Girl and the Man With the Money by Edward M. Korry about Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III and Aristotle Onassis
  • How Rich is the Queen of England? by Robert McKeown
  • It’s Always Spring in Paris

HEALTH AND SCIENCE:

  • Painless Childbirth

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions
  • The Many Lives of a Minister’s Wife

SPORTS:

  • Microd Racers – New Fad for Boys
  • Ted Williams – My Batting Tips for Little Leaguers
  • How to Win the Derby by Eddie Arcaro and W.C. Heinz

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • How Your TV Heroes Look to Weegee’s Magic Camera
  • The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (Movie Review)

HUMOR:

  • The Peanut by Harry Mace
  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • Fashions from Italy

FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • The American Kitchen Takes Off in Two Directions
  • The Ever-Present Olive

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • What They Are Saying
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1956-03-06 Look Magazine Contents, March 6, 1956

1956-03-06 — Cover photograph of Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher by Robert Vose

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • Los Angeles – The World’s Worst Growing Pains by Dan Fowler
  • The Living Faith of Mrs. Peter Marshall
  • Can Big Labor Clean House? by Fletcher Knebel and Clark Mollenhoff
  • The Lady Is a Cop
  • America Dances

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions

SPORTS:

  • Baseball a Game? What a Laugh! by Bob Feller as told to Ken W. Purdy

ART:

  • Walter P. Chrysler , Jr. Exhibits His Personal History of Art

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • The Life Story of Jackie Gleason, Part 3, Nothing Fails Like Success by Jim Bishop
  • Debbie and Eddie Fisher – “No Time Is Their Time”

HUMOR:

  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • Designing Couple about Mike and Jean Bandler of Pappagallo shoes

MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • It’s a Bull Market Ahead in the Double-Breasted Suit by Perkins H. Bailey

FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • How to Cook Off the Cuff
  • Everything’s for Rent

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • What They Are Saying
  • Letters to the Editor
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1956-02-07 Look Magazine Contents, February 7, 1956

1956-02-07 — Cover photograph of Jackie Gleason by Phil Harrington

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • Billy Graham Answers His Critics
  • The Politics of Peace by Chester Bowles
  • Snowbound in Montana

THE WORLD:

  • America at Its Best in India

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions

SPORTS:

  • Carmen Basilio – Nice Guy in a Rough Business

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Golden Girl about the only white chimpanzee in captivity
  • The Life Story of Jackie Gleason by Jim Bishop – 9 pages and to be continued
  • Spanish Jam Session
  • Saint on a Spree (Movie Review) featuring Eva Marie Saint in That Certain Feeling

HUMOR:

  • Hi-Fi Guy by Gergory d’Alessio
  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • The Dress That Needs a Man

FOOD:

  • They Live With Atomic Food

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • Letters to the Editor
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1956-01-24 Look Magazine Contents, January 24, 1956

1956-01-24 — Cover photograph of Susan and Caryl Volkmann by Robert Vose

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • U.S. Teen-agers
  • Generation in a Searchlight by Gereon Zimmermann
  • World’s Biggest Dome
  • The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi by William Bradford Huie – About Emmett Till
  • A Rockefeller Turns Farmer (Winthrop Rockefeller)

THE WORLD:

  • War or Peace by William O. Douglas
  • Europe – Ceiling Unlimited by Harlow Custice with Edward M. Korry
  • How Long Will World Prosperity Last? By Geoffrey Crowther

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions

SPORTS:

  • Casey Stengel Dazes Japan

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Bashful Basset
  • It’s A Picnic (Movie Review)
  • Gobel’s Peggy King

HUMOR:

  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • It’s Going to Be a Snow White Summer

MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • New Fad – Madras Plaid by Perkins H. Bailey

FOOD:

  • Shrimp Is Booming

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • What They Are Saying
  • Letters to the Editor
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1955-11-29 Look Magazine Contents, November 29, 1955

1955-11-29 — Cover photograph of Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis by Gene Kammerman

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • The Position of the Jews in America Today by William Attwood
  • The Case for Nixon by Richard Wilson
  • Pamela Goes to College featuring Pamela Gross
  • The Strike That May Never End

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • In Defense of the Single Woman by Anita Colby
  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions

HEALTH AND SCIENCE:

  • He Lost 125 Pounds in 7 Months featuring Virgil Hockenson

SPORTS:

  • Army vs. Navy – The East’s Last Big-Time Game by Tim Cohane

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Jean Simmons Becomes a Star (Movie Review), Review of Guys and Dolls
  • Parisian Picnic – Cover story featuring Janet Leigh and Tony Curtis
  • Broadway Brings Back the Vamp (Carol Channing)
  • All About Steve by Laura Bergquist (Steve Allen)

HUMOR:

  • The Uncommon Cold by George Fulton
  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • Brown in the Boudoir

MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Coats and Cars by Perkins H. Bailey

FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Who Are America’s Real Santa Clauses?
  • Reliving a Thanksgiving Tradition

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • Letters to the Editor
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1955-05-31 Look Magazine Contents, May 31, 1955

1955-05-31 — Cover photograph of Kim Novak by Milton H. Greene

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • J. Edgar Hoover – The Cop and the Man by Fletcher Knebel
  • Psychiatrist on the Spot by Gereon Zimmermann about Dr. Margaret Morgan
  • Monaghan the Kinkajou
  • Glamour in the Governor’s Manse looks in the home of California Governor Goodwin J. Knight and family

THE WORLD:

  • America – The Hope of Millions Around the World (This Greek family made it)
  • Holiday in the Bahamas

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions
  • How Much Do We Know About Women? by Sidonie M. Gruenberg

SPORTS:

  • Harvey Kuenn – Old-Fashioned Big Leaguer by Tim Cohane

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Lady and the Tramp (and Peggy Lee’s four voices)
  • Kim Novak – On Her Way Up
  • George Gobel – You Can’t Hardly Get Them Kind of Comedians No More by Eleanor Harris
  • Not as a Stranger (Movie Review)

HUMOR:

  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • Whopper Earrings
  • Ever Had the Mad Impulse to Jump in a Pool?

MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • You Think Women’s Hats Are Crazy?

FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • News: Three Sizes in “Spring” Chickens
  • Packaged Closet

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1955-05-17 Look Magazine Contents, May 17, 1955

1955-05-17 — Cover photograph of Marlon Brando by Maurice Terrell

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • Security Risk by Joseph P. Blank about Abraham Chasanow
  • Diary of a College Beauty featuring Carolyn Stroupe
  • The Magnificent American about General George C. Marshall
  • Bootlegging, It’s a Big Problem Again by Jack Wilson
  • Wesley Makes New Friends

THE WORLD:

  • American Family on Formosa, They Live on a Volcano

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions
  • How Much Do We Know About Men? by Lawrence K. Frank

HEALTH AND SCIENCE:

  • Air Force Doctor about Capt. Robert Dermott

SPORTS:

  • Gene Conley , The Milwaukee Whip
  • Going for the Big Ones with Spinning Tackle

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • The Marlon Brando Story “I Am Myself” by Helen Itria
  • Daddy Long Legs (Movie Review)
  • The Dorseys Bring Back the Swing Era

HUMOR:

  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • Eye-Stopper Swimsuits

MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • How to Wear a Blazer by Perkins H. Bailey

FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • A New Guest for Dinner?
  • Fire-Resistant Homes Are a Reality

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1955-03-08 Look Magazine Contents, March 8, 1955

1955-03-08 — Cover photograph of President Eisenhower by Karsh from Pix; Mrs. Eisenhower by Mary Eleanor Browning

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • Country Vet about Tucker Burr of Bellows Falls, VT
  • The Eisenhower I Know by Merriman Smith
  • We’re Getting Bigger Every Day about the baby boom and population explosion
  • What Is a Unitarian? by Karl M. Chwarowsky
  • Washington’s Hostesses With the Mostest

THE WORLD:

  • A Happy 88th to Toscanini
  • Why No American Can Be Elected Pope by Francois Mauriac
  • Inside Red China by William Stevenson

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions
  • The Social Graces

SPORTS:

  • “Vive le Rocket!” about Maurice Richard of the Montreal Canadiens (4 pages, all color photos)
  • Bowling’s Biggest Thrill, Steve Nagy bowls perfect game

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • The Long Gray Line (Movie Review)
  • Nanette Fabray, Caesar’s TV Wife

HUMOR:

  • The Snow Job by Herb Green
  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • Knee-Deep in Color

FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Any Fish Can Be a Gourmet Dish
  • How to Build an Extra Room in Your Own Back Yard

MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Mr. “Brooks Brothers” Entertains by Perkins H. Bailey

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1954-11-30 Look Magazine Contents, November 30, 1954

1954/11/30 — Cover photograph of Gina Lollobrigida by Arthur Rothstein

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:

THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • An Orphan Finds a Home (baby Japanese deer)
  • The Attorney General’s Daughter (Joan Brownell)
  • The Case of the Billionaire Bachelor by Eleanor Harris, about Sid Richardson
  • Who Are the Disciples of Christ? by James E. Craig
  • Stylist on the Spot about Chrysler styling director Virgil Exner

THE WORLD:

  • On Guard Off Formosa by Lt. Brooks Honeycutt, USNR
  • Women: Russia’s Second Class Citizens by Julie Whitney

HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions
  • “If I Should Die Before I Wake …”

SCIENCE:

  • Herman Salmon: The Fish That Flies by Ben Kocivar about pilot Herman Salmon

SPORTS:

  • The Fight of My Life, Part 1 by Rocky Graziano and Rowland Barber
  • The Road Beyond the Rose Bowl
  • Football Thrill
  • Winningest Sire

ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Gina about cover girl Gina Lollobrigida
  • Big Business in Show Business (Movie Review), Review of There’s No Business Like Show Business
  • The Man Behind the “Medic” about Jim Moser and NBC-TV series

HUMOR:

  • Members of the Wedding by the Berenstains
  • LOOK On the Light Side

FASHIONS:

  • Dressed to the Hilt in Glitter

MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Dressed to Ski by Perkins H. Bailey

FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • The Golden Look
  • New Family Hangout – The Old Ice Cream Parlor

OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only

1952-05-20 Look Magazine Contents for May 20, 1952

1952/05/20 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Ingrid Bergman by David Seymour; General Dwight D. Eisenhower by Wide World; Orestes Minnie Minoso by Robert Lerner

Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
THE NATION:

  • John Lardner’s New York
  • Harvard-Trained Dog
  • What Really Corrupts Washington Secrecy by Richard Wilson and Clark Mollenhoff
  • Wall Street … Works for Main Street
  • The Case of Willie Sutton — Part 2 by Erle Stanley Gardner
  • Storm Over Rain Making by William H. White
  • Will Ike Stampede the GOP?
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • The Battle for a Seaway by Robert McKeown
  • A Visit With Ingrid by William Attwood about Ingrid Bergman
  • LOOK Reports

    • SPORTS:

  • A Day and Night at the Races
  • As Minoso Goes, So Go Chicago by Tim Cohane

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Walk East on Beacon — Movie Review

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Fun in the Sun, Flirt Tents and Water Wings

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Silk – New Summer Entry in Menswear by Perkins H. Bailey

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Summer Shelters
  • Maytime, Berries and Cream Time

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features baseball stars Ed Lopat, Early Wynn, Allie Reynolds and Preacher Roe in color

    • 1952-07-01 Look Magazine Contents for July 1, 1952

    1952/07/01 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Janet Leigh by Maurice Terrell; General Douglas MacArthur by Rosamond Peterson and Suzanne Szasz; wedding couple by Michael Vaccaro; flying saucer by Leonard Jossel; Sugar Ray Robinson by Frank Bauman

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • New York, N.Y.
  • The Feud Between Ike and Mac by Robert E. Sherwood
  • A Co-Ed Takes a Working Vacation
  • Hunt for the Flying Saucer by J. Robert Maskin
  • LOOK Reports: Who Will Be Nominated? Who Will Be Elected?
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • Invasion by Invitation
  • Refuge in Jamaica

    • SPORTS:

  • The Curse of the Red Sox refers to the Green Monster and not being able to build a tear around it
  • It Hurts to Grow Old by Sugar Ray Robinson
  • The Snipe Comes of Age

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Spike Jones – There’s Method in His Madness
  • Cut-Throat Canasta
  • Summer at the Movies

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Family Cuts Haircutting Costs
  • The New Marrying Kind

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Dress-Up Denim by Perkins H. Bailey

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Sitting Pretty
  • Will Suckling Pigs Join Family Barbecues

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime

    • 1952-07-15 Look Magazine Contents for July 15, 1952

    1952/07/15 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Arlene Dahl by Earl Theissen; Double Life by Arthur Rothstein; Al Rosen from the New York Daily News

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • New York, N.Y.
  • A High-School Girl’s Summer
  • The Republicans
  • Some of My Best Friends Are Women by Jack Wilson
  • The Nagging Doubts About the Hiss Case by Alistair Cooke
  • Jet Testers
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • Japan’s Little Strangers

  • LOOK Reports

    • SCIENCE AND HEALTH:

  • Is There a Braver Man Alive? by Don C. Fowler
  • Are You Leading a Double Life? by Robert M. Goldenson, Ph.D.

    • SPORTS:

  • Al Rosen – Heap Big Indian War Club by Tim Cohane

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Wish You Were Here
  • When Knights Were Bold – Movie Review

    • ART:

  • Spoondoggling

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • New Beauty Scheme, Dressing to Match Hair

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Air Cooled Cap by Perkins H. Bailey

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Secret Safes
  • New Kitchen Hit, the Blend

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
  • Camel Cigarettes ad on back cover features Linda Darnell in color

    • 1952-07-29 Look Magazine Contents for July 29, 1952

    1952/07/29 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Pier Angeli by John Vachon; Sal Maglie from Keystone; Criss-Cross Sweater by Michael Vaccaro

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • New York, N.Y.
  • The Democrats by Fletcher Knebel
  • Whirly Birds about helicopters
  • The Role of Modern Woman by The Most Reverend Fulton J. Sheen, D.D.
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • There Is Nothing Like a Dane

  • High Tension in South Africa

  • LOOK Reports – Must We Fear a Germ War?

    • SCIENCE AND HEALTH:

  • “Calling Dr. Bradley”

    • SPORTS:

  • Maglie – They Call Him Unfrivolous Sal by Tim Cohane about Sal Maglie
  • Hercules Puts the Shot featuring shot-putter Jim Fuchs

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Pier and Marisa featuring sisters Pier Angeli and Marisa Pavan

    • ART:

  • Czermanski

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Knitting the 5-Way Loop
  • Elegance from Asia

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Will Men Buy These

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • The Changing Tomato

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime

    • 1952-09-23 Look Magazine Contents for September 23, 1952

    1952/09/23 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Ava Gardner and Susan Hayward from 20th Century-Fox; Weymouth local football player by James Hansen; Nurse Irene Blomgren by Maurice Terrell; Senator Richard Nixon by Michael Vaccaro; Billy Williams by Wide World

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • New York, N.Y.
  • Good for a Laugh by Bennett Cerf
  • “I WilL Devote Myself–“
  • Too Much Education? by Colgate W. Darden, Jr. as told to Virginius Dabney
  • Why Nixon Was Nominated by Victor lasky
  • Birdie and God
  • 18 Ways to Stay Alive by William Houseman
  • She’s a Crystal Girl
  • Opinions Unlimited by Hubert Pryor
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • Germany’s Lonely Jews by William Attwood
  • LOOK Reports

    • SPORTS:

  • Dempsey Could Flatten Today’s Heavies All in One Night by Gene Tunney as told to Tim Cohane and illustrated by Willard Mullin
  • Championship High-School Football

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • The Snows of Kilimanjaro starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, and Susan Hayward – Movie Review
  • Ride, Billy, Ride! featuring Billy Williams

    • ART:

  • Donati

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Charles James — Designs Sofas and Redesigns Women

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • This Fall … You Will Be Walking On Air

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • A Chair for Mira
  • A New Kind of Apple Barrel

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
  • Full-page ad from The Watchmakers of Switzerland includes a color illustration by Norman Rockwell with a boy getting his watch inspected (illustration a little larger than half page)

    • 1952-10-21 Look Magazine Contents for October 21, 1952

    1952/10/21 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Roxanne by Frank Bauman; Coach Frank Leahy by Frank Bauman; Donald O’Connor by Ray Jones of UI

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • John Lardner’s New York
  • Going Broke on $10,000 a Year by Jay Taylor
  • Good Old School Haze
  • FEPC: How It Works in Seven States by J.C Furnas
  • Let’s Cook With Ike by Fleur Cowles
  • What Is a Catholic? by John Cogley
  • Alambama’s “Our John” Sparkman by Joyce Jones
  • Will It Ousell the King James Bible?
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • Jumping Sisters
  • Guided Missiles – From Science Fiction to Fearsome Fact by Dr. Louis Ridenour, Jr.
  • LOOK Reports: Stalin’s Assassins

    • SPORTS:

  • Is Notre Dame Football Going to Pot? by Tim Cohane
  • They’re Not Built for Grandma! by Ralph Stein

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Audrey … The New Hepburn featuring Audrey Hepburn – Photos spread over 5 pages (2 full and 3 half-pages)
  • Jackpot O’Connor featuring Donald O’Connor

  • Beatrice Lillie – One Woman Show

    • ART:

  • Edmondson’s Visions in Stone by F.W. Woolsey

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Who Makes the Clothes That Make the American Woman?

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • From Any Angle It’s News by Perkins H. Bailey

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Machine-Made Lawns
  • Cheesetown, U.S.A.

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime

    • 1952-12-16 Look Magazine Contents for December 16, 1952

    1952/12/16 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis by James Hansen; Jack Scarbath of Maryland by Wide World; Jana Jones by Arthur Rothstein

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • John Lardner’s New York
  • My Life With George Burns by Gracie Allen
  • “Let’s Keep Christmas” by Peter Marshall
  • Lunatics at Large by William H. White
  • “All We’ve Got Down Here Is Money”
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • Indo-China Near Disaster — Asia 1952 — Part 4 by William O. Douglas
  • Princess Margaret Rose – Whom Will She Marry? — Part 2 by Marion Crawford
  • LOOK Reports: Is Korea With a War With Russia? by Geoffrey Crowther

    • SPORTS:

  • What Is the All America by Tim Cohane
  • 1952 LOOK All America Football Team by Grantland Rice

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Fresh Faces on TV
  • A Quiet Man’s Movies about Hal Wallis
  • Martin and Lewis Go Texan

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • The Shell Game

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Italian Clothes Get the American Treatment

    • CHRISTMAS FEATURES:

  • Gift Foods in Ten Minutes
  • How Children Would Run Christmas by Charlotte Willard
  • The Experts Talk About Christmas Toys

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime

    • 1952-01-29 Look Magazine Contents for January 29, 1952

    1952/01/29 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Ingrid Bergman by Graybill-Wellbourne; Farley Welch by Art Rothstein; Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis by Earl Theisen

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE WORLD:

  • “I Saw Them Die in Korea” by Major William D. Clark
  • Is Stalin In Trouble? by Edward Crankshaw
  • Ingrid Bergman – Roberto Rossellini – A Love Story — Part 1 by Howard Taubman
  • LOOK Reports
  • What’s Wrong With U.S. Air Power — An Interview With the Air Force Secretary

    • THE NATION:

  • John Lardner’s New York
  • What Are Little Boys Made Of?
  • The Santa Fe – Big Chief of the Southwest
  • How to Damage a University
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • SPORTS:

  • How Basketball Players Are Bought by Tim Cohane

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • The Fourposter starring Lilli Palmer and Rex Harrison on screen and Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy on stage, with photos of all – Movie and Drama Review
  • Jerry Lewis Directs a Homemade Movie

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Hepitude

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Don’t Be Too Squared Away by Perkins H. Bailey

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Don’t Be Afraid of Your Taste
  • Food Without Inhibitions

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis in color

    • 1952-03-11 Look Magazine Contents for March 11, 1952

    1952/03/11 — Cover photographs are credited as follows: Vivien Leigh and Fredric March by Arthur Rothstein; General Omar Bradley by Acme; Michelle Farmer by James Hansen; Bob Feller by Frank Bauman

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATION:

  • John Lardner’s New York
  • Prune Face
  • Why Motorists Blow Their Tops by Jack Wilson
  • A Farmer Takes a Husband – Gloria Swanson ‘s daughter Michelle Farmer weds
  • This … Is Murrow by Leonore Silvian about Edward R. Murrow
  • 24 Ways to Save Tax Dollars
  • The Big Business of Little Books by William H. White about pocket-sized paperbacks
  • Jack Wilson’s Washington

    • THE WORLD:

  • Should We Fear the Military? by Associate Justice William O. Douglas and General Omar Bradley
  • Living in Space En Route to the Moon
  • The Wounded Fly Home
  • LOOK Reports
  • Bonnie Charlie – Prince of Wales

    • SPORTS:

  • Bob Feller Throws the Slider – 4 pages of Feller in action

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • What Happens When Hope Hits Bellaire featuring Bob Hope
  • LOOK Annual Movie Awards featuring Actress of the Year, Vivien Leigh and Actor of the Year, Fredric March, pluss George Stevens, Frank Planer, Robert Buckner, Arthur Freed, Robert J. O’Donnell, Danny Thomas, Mitzi Gaynor, Kim Hunter, Eddie Mayehoff, Gene Kelly, Samuel Goldwyn

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Are Shoes Disappearing?

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • How to Avoid a Hot Foot by Perkins H. Bailey

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Tomorrow’s Wallpaper
  • Food Became Their Business

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • LOOK Behind the Scenes

  • Letters and Pictures to the Editors
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Photoquiz
  • Photocrime
  • Chesterfield Cigarettes ad on back cover features Dale Robertson in color

    • 1954-11-17 Look Magazine Contents

    1954/11/17 — Cover photograph of fashion model Jeryl Johnson is credited to Milton H. Greene

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • Must We Have War? by Adlai Stevenson
  • Little Squirrel Lost
  • Bill Ford Builds the Continental by George Koether

    • THE WORLD:

  • The Eighty Years of Churchill by Robert E. Sherwood
  • “For All the World’s Children” by Danny Kaye

    • HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Dressing Up
  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions

    • SCIENCE:

  • Dog Caesarean
  • The Pigmy and the Giant is about Douglas attack planes the A3D Skywarrior and the A4D Skyhawk – 2 pages, color photos

    • SPORTS:

  • Football Thrill
  • Canadian Football — Will It Change Our Game?

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Pinza Is Back on Broadway
  • Steve Allen – Clown With a Conscience
  • The Old Hollywood Try features Stephanie Griffin

    • HUMOR:

  • Snack by Martin Giuffre
  • LOOK On the Light Side

    • FASHIONS:

  • Covered Up for Night

    • MEN’S FASHIONS:

  • Bright Red Shirts by Perkins H. Bailey

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • World of Dolls
  • Secret Diet-French Style

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Photoquiz
  • For Women Only
  • Beautiful 2-page color ad for Walt Disney Presents: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

    • 1956-03-20 Look Magazine Contents

    1956/03/20 — Cover photograph of James Cagney and Susan Hayward is credited to Robert Vose

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • What Is Florida?
  • Paradise Gained or Paradise Lost? by Philip Wylie
  • What They Do in Florida
  • How to Retire in Florida on $2,000 a Year
  • Florida’s Prophets of Boom
  • Let’s Give the Public a Chance at Paid TV by Robert E. Lee

    • THE WORLD:

  • A New Crisis in France – Lost Childhood
  • What’s the Matter With France? by Edward M. Korry

    • HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Hands
  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions
  • The Children Who Wait

    • SPORTS:

  • I’ll Never Quit Baseball — Part 2 by Bob Feller as told to Ken W. Purdy
  • All America Basketball by Tim Cohane and I.R. McVay

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • LOOK Annual Movie Awards – features photos of winners James Cagney – Susan Hayward – Jack Lemmon (color) – Jo Van Fleet (color) – James Wong Howe (color) – Milton R. Rackmil (color) – Daniel Mann – Leonard H. Goldenson – Harold Hecht and Paddy Chayefsky – Fess Parker – Kim Novak – Anna Magnani
  • The New Caesar features Sid Caesar

    • HUMOR:

  • Emergency by Stan Hunt
  • LOOK On the Light Side

    • FASHIONS:

  • Spring Girdles Go Gay
  • Hats Pretty Enough to Pick

    • FOOD AND HOME LIVING:

  • Exotic Vegetables for the Everyday Diet

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Letters to the Editor
  • For Women Only
  • Photoquiz
  • Beautiful full-page color ad featuring John Wayne and Susan Hayward in The Conquerer

    • 1954-12-14 Look Magazine Contents

    1954/12/14 — Cover photograph of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale and Bishop Fulton J. Sheen is credited to Arthur Rothstein

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • Religion Reaches Out by Chester Morrison
  • F.D.R. and the Decision for War by Harold L. Ickes
  • “As Is” – Post Office Auctions
  • 13 New Americans

    • THE WORLD:

  • Operation Mercy
  • The Iron Curtain Is Out of Bounds

    • HUMAN RELATIONS:

  • Norman Vincent Peale Answers Your Questions
  • It’s Still Sweet Sixteen
  • Husbands: The New Servant Class by Russell Lynes

    • HEALTH:

  • Exercise Can Help Your Heart by Roland H. Berg

    • SPORTS:

  • The Football Writers Association of America Selects the 1954 LOOK All America
  • The Fight of My Life — Part 2 — by Rocky Graziano with Rowland Barber

    • ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Mary Martin Sings Peter Pan
  • June Taylor – The Girl Behind the Gleason Girls
  • Bing Crosby and Grace Kelly Try for Academy Awards

    • HUMOR:

  • Shine by Shirvanian
  • LOOK On the Light Side

    • CHRISTMAS GIFTS:

  • LOOK Hands the Prize to These Christmas Gifts

    • FASHIONS:

  • Mostly Legs

    • FOOD:

  • Punch–Beer to Champagne

    • OTHER DEPARTMENTS:

  • Behind the Scenes
  • What They Are Saying
  • LOOK Applauds
  • Letters to the Editor
  • For Women Only
  • Photoquiz
  • 12 consecutive pages of color advertising “The Forward Look” showing off contemporary motor cars by Chrysler Corporation — 2 page spreads each for: Plymouth ’55 – ’55 Dodge – 1955 De Soto – 1955 Chrysler – 1955 Imperial

    • 1947-07-08 Look Magazine Contents

    1947/07/08 — Cover photograph is of Mary Hartline

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    AMERICAN SPOTLIGHT:

  • LOOK Cartoons
  • Stassen Talks World Politics in Iowa
  • Fun on the Beach
  • Toys Help Big Business
  • Washington Party for France
  • Maine Coast Schooner Cruise
  • COllege Election
  • It Happened Here
  • The Evolution of the Motor Bus

    • WORLD SPOTLIGHT:

  • We Can Lose the Next War in Seven Days by Nat S. Finney
  • Russia’s New Serfdom by William Henry Chamberlin

    • STRICTLY PERSONAL:

  • Screwball Realtor
  • Meet the People
  • This Man Is Dying
  • A Porpoise Gets the Bird
  • Bob Taft — Socialist? by William Mylander

    • SPORTS:

  • Artists Capture Sports Action
  • LOOK’s Sports Quiz – Conducted by Tim Cohane

    • MOVIES, MUSIC AND ENTERTAINMENT:

  • Middle-Brow Music Master about Sigmund Romberg
  • Clark Gable – Big Money Man Gets Lucky Again by Dan C. Fowler – Takes up all or part of 6 pages including a 2-page spread at the end of the article with small still reproductions from all 46 of the movies Gable had appeared in up to that time, from the 1928 play “Machinal”, followed by 1930’s “The Finger Points” to 1947’s “The Hucksters” – Each photo is appx. 1-3/4″ X 1-5/8″
  • JIggs Makes a Movie
  • LOOK’s New Movie Review: Great Expectations
  • Dickens — Movie Writer
  • LOOK’s Movie Guide
  • New Radio Comic — Jack Paar
  • LOOK’s Record Guide

    • FASHIONS AND BEAUTY:

  • Paris and London Fashions Come to Chicago
  • What’s Going on in Fashion

    • FOOD AND HOMEMAKING:

  • Summer Coolers

    • SCIENCE AND MEDICINE:

  • Caesarian Triplets
  • Your Child Needs a Father

    • TEST YOURSELF:

  • Photoquiz
  • Personality Clinic
  • Photocrime
  • Letters and Pictures to the Editor
  • Back cover features a color ad for Chesterfields featuring a large imag eof Bob Hope

    • 1970-01-27 Look Magazine Contents

    1970/01/27 — Cover photograph of Steve McQueen

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • Mr. President, Bring Us Together Again by David R. Maxey
  • The Look 20-Day Course in Quick Reading, Part 2 — by Prof. James I. Brown
  • Special Report: The Secret Link Between Nixon and the New Mobe Kids by Warren Rogers

    • THE WORLD:

  • France’s Madame Pompidou – First Lady with Pizzaz by Laura Bergquist

    • HEALTH & SCIENCE:

  • The Transsexuals – Male or Female? by Roland H. Berg

    • HUMOR:

  • Look on the Light Side – C. Day, Reilly, Hilton S. Harris, Nitka

    • ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS:

  • “Sir Says”–A Visit With Sir Laurence Olivier
  • Joni Mitchell
  • Steve McQueen – Mr. Mansmanship by Betty Rollin – 5 pages with photos
  • How to Win at Basketball, Cheat by Bill Cosby

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Pink Grapefruit
  • O Boutique

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editor
  • Looking at Books … Is Graham Greene a Burnt-Out Case?
  • Look at the Movies … Good Grief! It’s “A Boy Named Charlie Brown”

    • 1969-03-18 Look Magazine Contents

    1969/03/18 — Cover photograph of John Lennon and Yoko Ono

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • Arnold Toynbee Talks of Peace, Power, Race in America, With J. Robert Moskin
  • A New Era for Puerto Rico by Andrew T. Viglucci
  • Mission Unaccomplished by Senator Fred R. Harris
  • The Remarkable Mr. Harris by Charles Mangel

    • THE WORLD:

  • Windswept Irish Edge of Europe – The Aran Islands
  • The Battle Inside the Kremlin by Victor Zorza

    • HUMOR:

  • Look on the Light Side – C.E. Martin, Tippit, Rodrigues, Shirvanian

    • ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS:

  • Mickey Mantle ‘s Decision by Mickey Mantle with Gerald Astor – 6 pages
  • Top Pop Merger – Lennon/Ono Inc. by Betty Rollin – 7 pages
  • Long John Nebel by Isabella Taves
  • Jazzman’s Last Ramble

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Great Greek Appetizers

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editor
  • Looking at Books … Our Kind of People: Mafiosi, Racists and the Stinking Rich
  • Look at the Movies … Go!–for the Fury, Force and Fun of “If”

    • 1970-06-16 Look Magazine Contents

    1970/06/16 — Cover photograph of Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton

    Contents as taken from this issue’s index are as follows:
    THE NATIONAL SCENE:

  • A New Choice for Students: The Princeton Commitment by Jack Shepherd
  • The Volunteers by David R. Maxey
  • She Fights Poverty
  • “A Little Help From My Friends”
  • Want to Help? Here’s How
  • How to Wreck a National Park by Christpher S. Wren

    • THE WORLD:

  • Who Is A Jew? by Gerald Astor
  • The Germany We Don’t Know by J. Robert Moskin

    • HEALTH & SCIENCE:

  • Does Our Army Fight on Drugs? by Joel H. Kaplan, M.D. as told to Christopher S. Wren

    • HUMOR:

  • Look on the Light Side – Tippit, C. Day,. Rodrigues, Barsotti, Cochran

    • ENTERTAINMENT, SPORTS:

  • How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways – Cover Story featuring Liz Taylor and Richard Burton, 3 pages including 1 full-page color photo of the two
  • My Love/Hate Affair With Baseball — Part 2 — Comeback by Jim Bouton, Edited by Leonard Shecter

    • MODERN LIVING:

  • Yesterday, Tomorrow in Spanish San Juan

    • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Letters to the Editor
  • Look at the Movies … Neither Acting … Nor Story … Nor Script … “Norwood”