Life Magazine, October 29, 1956 - Pacific plane crash

Sir Winston Churchill writes of King Henry VIII and his romantic misadventures - Volume 2 of "History of the English-speaking peoples.". Pacific plane crash of Pan American flight 943 of "Sovereign of the Skies", the last five hours and an unbelievable rescue at sea, including photos of Hiroshi Shiga, Jane and Richard Gordon and twins, with text about pilot Richard W. Ogg, stewardesses Mary Ellen Daniel, purser Patricia Reynolds, and Katherine Araki. . Texas and football, with photos of Martin Adams and wife, Robert E. Lee High School of Baytown, drill team, Jim Swink. Mask makers show how to be very very scary at Halloween, with Sandra Person. MIT uses a masticating machine for testing tenderness. Progress on a better polio vaccine with Dr. Hilary Koprowski, Dr. Andrew Hunt Jr., nurse Ruth Lorenzo. Swaps, a real thoroughbred, tries to pull through as his fractured leg is given elaborate medical care. Close-up : William J. Brennan Jr, Supreme Court judge. Big day for the Camargo Hunt, Cincinnati socialites. Neat 3 page ad about setting automobile performance records at Salt Flat with 1957 Fords, John Bodine, Danny O'Brien, Danny Eames, Chuck Stevenson. Neat story about Lorraine Rogers, actress. Awesome two page full color Pan American airline ad with Hawaiian outrigger boat by Norman Rockwell! Audition process for movie "Saint Joan." Nice photo of Garry Washington and William Rainey plastering a ceiling while standing on stilts.