Life Magazine, September 12, 1955 - Joan Collins

Full page Champion spark plugs ad with Dick Pope of Cypress Gardens, water skier Nancy Cooper, Cypress gardens fleet of boats. Cute full page Hanes stocking ad with nice view of good legs. Full page color Texcel cellophane tape ad with child-like art by Herbert Leupin. New surge of interest in the civil war. Preview of "This hallowed Ground" by Pulitzer prizewinner Bruce Catton. Dictator Peron in Argentina. Acadian descendants visit Nova Scotia on anniversary of historic expulsion. Nice feature on the horse race between Nashua and Swap, jockey Eddie Arcaro, Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons. The movie "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing" is about Evelyn Nesbitt and the 1906 murder of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw. David Eisenhower (7) lands a Colorado trout. Curious full page 7up ad with mother feeding 7up to her 11 month old baby AND ad includes blip for "Soldiers of Fortune" TV show. South African Negroes fight white supremacy training with "cultural clubs." Pasadena return a captured Japanese temple bell to owners. Top painting awards for Corrado Marca-Relli, Furman Finck, Ted RAnd, John Hultberg, Cecil Casebier, George Cress, Will Freund, Seymour Drumlevitch, Albert Nalpas. Full page color Shell motor oil ad with boating art by M. Ramus, boat name is Dinah Mo-II (of Riverside, Connecticut). Psychologist H.G. Gough. Another cartoon-like Post Toasties ad with art by Whitney Darrow Jr. Swaps - Nashua race. Fantastic series of candid photos of kitten Blazer and boy Craig Anderson. Marciano and Moore allay boxing training camp tedium. Full page color United States Brewers Foundation beer ad with art by Prett Carter, the first I remember by this artist, number 112. Very thick window for atom workers. Hell week for Navy Frogmen at the Underwater Demolition School in Coronado, California. Party for dolls given by the Thomas McCready family of Webster, New Hampshire. Fall styles in red. Very cute full-page Coca-cola ad in color.