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Life Magazine, August 29, 1955 - Grandson's fun

Life Magazine, August 29, 1955 - Grandson's fun

Life Magazine, August 15, 1955 - Memoir of MacArthur

Life Magazine, August 15, 1955 - Memoir of MacArthur

Life Magazine, August 22, 1955 - Sophia Loren

Original Life Magazine from August 22, 1955 - Sophia Loren
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These issues are extremely nice. These are in amazing condition and are great for framing or giving as a cherished gift. Some may have very minor defects and address labels.
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These issues are in pretty good shape. These are great for those who want a complete, original, average condition issue to read and enjoy. They may have some light to moderate flaws like small tears, spots, library stamps etc. but would make a great piece of history for the budget minded to mark any occasion.
Some of the contents in this issue
Europe's No. 1 cover girl (reproductions of covers inside). Full page color Carnation evaporated milk ad with lots of raw hamburger and recipes. Follow-up letter about embezzler John C. Siemer (LIFE August 1, 1955). Another amazing series of photos, these showing Harry Wyman, Vic Olivier and a lion hunting mishap in South Africa, with brave photographer C.J. du Preez. What a lovely car! - full page ad for Packard Clipper in red and blue with white. Full page color Post Toasties cereal ad with art by Whitney Darrow Jr. Conqueror rebuilds a nation - Part 2 of MacArthur story. Gavins Point Dam on Missouri River, construction photos and text. You are glad these aren't your boys, hanging from the eaves of a restaurant in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina letting the hurricane driven waves hit them. Hurricane Connie, photos include the Eaves photo, Dance Hall floating at Sea Breeze, New York's Cross Island parkway. Full page color United States Brewers Foundation beer ad with art by Douglass Crockwell, number 111. Photo of Connie Ryan hitting baseball pitcher Billy Bagwell. Geneva Convention for atom experts. Huge sphere of colored lights forecasts Houston's weather. Art conquers Attica Kansas. Mary Waitman - Kemp, Oklahoma baseball player. Rusty the elephant at London Zoo, with Buck Jones. Cripple Creek, Colorado audiences and theater melodrama "Flying Scud." The homegrown painters of Attica, Kansas, great photos include Peg Charles, Patric Rowley, Myrta Giggy and many others. Another full page color Kellogg's Corn Flakes ad by Norman Rockwell, in the string around the finger series.
Wounded lion downs a hunter
14
Lion hunting
U.S. masters the Big Muddy
21
Dams, Missouri River (Regulation)
Squaring off for '56
28
Averell Harriman; 1891-1986, Adlai Ewing Stevenson; 1900-1965, PRESIDENTIAL candidates (1956)
Hesitant hurricane
30
Hurricanes
Fair exchange abroad
32
International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
Oklahoma team turns up an unlikely star
51
Baseball, Women athletes
Primping a public carrier
57
London Zoological Gardens, Elephants
Stylish start for kindergarten
60
Clothing and dress (Children)
Mustached mugs at an old melodrama
66
Hotels, motels, etc, Melodrama, Cripple Creek (Colo.)
Adopted mother goose
73
Konrad Lorenz, Animals (Habits and behavior), Geese
Fair climate at home
32
United States Immigration and Naturalization Service, United States Passport Services
Atom experts' shopping spree
39
International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy
Colorful forecasts for Houston's weather
41
Weather forecasting
Saga of Sophia
42
Sophia Loren; 1934-.
Deep-water scrub-up
48
Jesus Christ (Art)
Art conquers Attica
81
Art (Exhibitions), Art, Amateur, Attica (Kan.)
MacArthur's rendezvous with history
90
Japan (History, Allied occupation, 1945-1952)
Portrait
96
Jean Faircloth MacArthur; 1898-2000
Picnic of the year
109
Nikolai Aleksandrovich Bulganin; 1895-1975, Government entertaining, Soviet Union (Social life and customs)