Life Magazine, December 6, 1954 - Jet-age man

Full page color Western Electric ad with telephones (all the same model) in different colors. Promising new cancer weapons depicted in cartoons, "Horizons of Hope" film. Really pretty and unusual full page color Buick ad with orange car against sunset waterway scene, Special Riviera. Two page Hilton ad pertaining to new Statler hotels. Life visits families who have a man in Red China prison camp, prisoners of war, on Thanksgiving, photos include Jean Ann Vaadi and family, family of airman Kiba, family of Major Baumer, Mrs. Harry Benjamin, family of Elmer Llewellyn, family of John Buck and others. Stock market goes higher than the historic 1929 peak before the Great Depression. Photo of the broken ship "World Concord." How Reds use old-style blackmail. Big game's big look - Football. Catholic refugees flee red-held Vietnam. Alger Hiss emerges and protests his innocence. French government takes steps to cut alcohol consumption in their country, illustrated with great photo of Alphonse Bebin, much more including school children drinking in school. Story about Mrs. Virgil Johnson and her burning house in Honolulu, she thought her son Rueben was inside (he wasn't). Mitsuko Kimura (LIFE cover December 31, 1951) marries. Ford Flock follows Thunderbird. Toupees. Red Fraud and intrigue in far east Part 2. Freewheeling skiers practice on roller skates - Norm Bachelor and Ed Hoel on roller skis. Figure skating. Movies - Bing on binge. Kathy Schaberg's dancing school recital.