Life Magazine May 14, 1956 – Gainsborough Look

Life Magazine Cover : Gainsborough look in new fashions.

• Guy Miller makes a New York city in miniature.
• Full page color Orangeburg ad.
• Kentucky Derby and John Landy, photos of feet.
• Russian air power vs US air power by Curtis LeMay – great photo gallery of current and future jet planes.
• Grace Kelly and Prince Rainier III marriage photo.
• What to do about the draft?
• First US running mile under 4 minutes, Jim Bailey.
• Lovers and Lollipops movie with Cathy Dunn.
• Genteel Queen of Crime – Agatha Christie puts her zest for life into murder – profile by Nigel Dennis.
• Full page color Band-Aid ad.
• Grand Canyon’s hidden wonders, photos by A. Y. Owen.
• Leonard F. Stevens – chief nurse at Fort Douglas Station veterans hospital.
• Nightclub singer Constance Bennett profile.
• Student Scholarships – Otis Jones, Barbara L. Bader, Carole K. Masutani, John Brink, Claiborne H. Johnson, Margot Hatcher, Donald Davis.
• Richard King Mellon, profile – photos by Margaret Bourke-White.
• Norman Flayderman and his collection of 1000 swords.
• Henry Wallace tells of his political Odyssey.
• Back page – Camel ad with famous smoking ballplayers.
• Antique magazines are packed with entertainment from cover to cover!
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