Life Magazine, May 2, 1955 - Hollywood's Oklahoma

How Red terror wrecked my university, by Lin Yutang. Comparison for world's highest waterfall. Neat full page color Rambler ad with yellow stationwagon, showing how reclining seats can be used to make travel bed. Fiesta fun and fire in Valencia. Nice photo of runner Hideo Hamamura. Wow, underwater surgery on Bat ray - they took a cornea from a wild bat ray for this - did they ask permission to blind the wild one in one eye? Death of a genius, Einstein. Oklahoma Baptists read through the entire scriptures in a 79 hour marathon. Pastels show up strong in male wardrobes and around the house. Camp Fire Girls of Wichita, Kansas, replace their city's dying trees, including photo of Sue McCorkle and Marilyn Pendergraft, Donna Eubanks, more. Old Madonna grows older : restorer uncovers a fifth century painting, one glued on top of another. Mass polio inoculations begin as the nation pays thanks to Dr. Salk. The brewery family Busches of St. Louis, photo essay (Anheuser-Busch). Beheading of Ahmed Thalaya in Yemen. Colorful two page Hamm's beer ad that actually makes the midwest look gorgeous. Kentucky Derby contenders in horse race (photo) Nashua and Summer Tan. Hideo Hamamura wins Boston A.A. marathon. Colorful full page PYrex ware ad for mixing bowl set. Odd two page Max Factor High Fidelity (Hi-Fi) makeup ad with television connection. Full page color Blue Bell clothing ad with the handsome Buck Rutherford, rodeo cowboy.