Life Magazine, July 23, 1956 - Mexican War diary

Original Life Magazine from July 23, 1956 - Mexican War diary

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Some of the contents in this issue

Headlong charge: a sketch from the memoirs of an American soldier, Samuel Chamberlain, who fought in the Mexican War, 15-plus pages. Photos of sand castles and sand sculptures on the beach at Rimini, Italy. G.O.P. smiles widen with Ike's decision. Anguish of Morris and Beatrice Weinberger whose one month old baby was kidnapped. Earthquake in the Aegean. Whooping crane chick hatched in New Orleans dies (see also June 11). Reporter James Shepley is not impressed on his first visit to Moscow. Professor H. W. Baker of England devises way to cut one of the copper Dead Sea Scrolls to reveal its contents. New deal for comeback of California fur seals. 5,000 Girl Scouts rough it on the first national Roundup at a " primitive encampment" at Michigan's Highland State Recreation Area, near Detroit. Photo essay- Everybody gets in the acting: five amateur productions of the same play in five cities. Full page color Friskies dog food ad with kids putting St. Bernard in a pool illustration by Douglas Crockwell. Fight over William Zorach's sculpture intended for a Texas bank and then rejected. Fraternity of Valor: Britain honors holders of 100-year-old Victoria Cross. Black and white photos- castles in the sand. Cute two page color Hamm's Beer ad with Bear on skis, images of beer can and glass in snowy scene by Carl Paulson. Full page Sealtest ice cream ad.

Table of Contents

Castles in the sand of Italy	12
Beaches, Sand sculpture, Rimini (Italy)
Wide G.O.P. smiles, no wonder	17
Dwight David Eisenhower; 1890-1969, Republican Party (U.S.), PRESIDENTIAL campaigns (1956)
U.S. spirit: a moral creed	29
Peter Ferdinand Drucker; 1909-., Church and state, Secularism, United States (Civilization)
U.S. spirit: a will to risk	29
Richard BOKUM, Steven Knowlton FOX (jr), Uranium mines and mining
Anguish cruelly compounded	30
Kidnapping
Suns for surgery in St L o	57
Hospitals (Lighting, Operating rooms, France), Saint-Lo (France)
New deal for a rare seal	61
Seals (Animals)
'copter ride in motorless boat	67
Gliders (Aviation)
My confession	68
Mexican War, 1846-1848
Cast lady cast off	93
William Zorach (American sculptor and painter.); 1887-1966, Houston (Tex.)Banks
Sights and smells of Moscow	31
Foreign visitors (Soviet Union), Russians, Moscow (Russia) (Description and travel)
Big quake's toll of grief	32
Earthquakes (Greece)
Black Friday for whoopers	35
Whooping cranes
Cutting into cryptic copper	41
Henry Wright BAKER, Dead Sea scrolls
Mad hats for new fall outfits	51
Hats
Some art that gets by	94
Art, Modern
Outdoor lark for 5,000 girls	97
Girl Scouts of the United States of America
Everybody gets in the acting	105
Theater, Amateur
Fraternity of valor	115
Victoria cross
Fifteen-year-olds on their own	121
Adolescence, Children's parties

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