Life Magazine, April 14, 1952 - Italian fashions

Full page Buick Roadmaster ad with car parallel parking, power steering. I'm charmed by this ad - full page color Autoyre Fairfield ad for inexpensive bathroom fixtures that we still see around today. Chinese use fake photos to prove germ-warfare story. Another charming full page Texaco ad with five rolly, polly Dalmatian pups. First atomic artillery - Army Chief Collins, this is probably first nuclear warheads. Epic escape across the Gobi Desert - ends in the US. Very low unemployment in Luxembourg. The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson - drawings by Rudolph Freund. Christendom's rare relics are preserved in Vatican - cool jewelry and books. Color photo - ice piled high on shore of Lake Superior near Duluth. Scary Satan book cover by Cornelius van Roemberg. Horrible baseball accident - Monte Irvin of the New York Giants breaks his ankle. Feature article on the unemployed in Luxembourg. British faith healer Harry Edwards - profile. 1952 - MGM musicals - Show boat, An American in Paris, The Merry Widow. The TV panel show named "The Author Meets the Critics." Helicopter aerial views of the US by Margaret Bourke-White, includes some railroad yards, Coney Island beach and much more, for at least some of them she hung outside below the helicopter!. Missing West Point cadet - Richard C. Cox. Full page color US Brewers Foundation ad with art by Douglass Crockwell. Full page color Champion spark plugs ad with extremely cute art of little boy playing baseball. Farrowing with Bob Stoops, Garry Smith, W. L. Hughes near Tipton, Indiana - pig birthing time.