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Magazine January 4, 1954 : Cover - Power - US
will double supply in 25 years. Billions for defense
build wondrous weapons. Full page color Utica-Mohawk
sheets ad with different packages of sheets, Viking
boat logo. State of US economy and defense. US spends
record $ 34.7 billion on new construction - Armour Pharmaceutical
building, Pittsburgh's Gateway Center, Ideal Cement
Company building in Boettcher, Colorado; Parker Pen's
new plant in Janesville, Wisconsin, and others. The
new domesticated male - men now do housework - cartoons
by Tom Funk. A daring plan to unshackle trade and enrich
the free world by John Know Jessup and Michael A. Heilperin.
Full page Debeers ad featuring Venice art by Charles
Rain. Tough Taconite yields to new technology - Mesabi
iron ore. Corvette shows the way for plastic cars. Predictions
for the 200th birthday of the US by George R. Harrison.
New energy sources for the US - Coal, Oil and Gas, Water,
the Atom, The Sun. Full page color Ballantine Beer ad
featuring art by Ray Prohaska. Back Page ad for Coca
Cola - Featuring a Nurse from Eddie Fisher. Very interesting
article comparing incomes and spending between 1952
and 1953, with snapshots of the following families :
George and Tina Perryman of Marietta Georgia, Ray and
Irene Brown of Aldeo Illinois, Henry and Tommy Waidmann
of Denver Colorado, Frank and Betty Waterman of Bakersfield
California.
EXC - $40 
G - $18
F (Generally G, but
has taped spine and extra tanning) - $8
Life Magazine
January 11, 1954 : Cover - Pat and Evy Bates
twins, debutante Wardrobe. Curious "photos"
produced by baby crawling across photographic paper
- baby Michael Lyon. Series of interesting letters to
the editor pertaining to the "Smoking and Cancer"
article in LIFE December 21, 1953. Full page color John
Hancock Life Insurance ad with great art by Ben Stahl
showing whale hunting. Queens Elizabeth and Salote visit
the South Seas. Big kick in football Bowl games - French
smoke out Reds in Indochina battle. Fusses over ladies
- Terry Moore, Jane Russell, Marlene Dietrich, Barbara
Hutton, Zsa Zsa Gabor. Paul Rickey and Bert Clark -
airplane pilot rescue. Alan Coles stars in "Oh
Men, Oh Women" by Edward Chodorov. Two page color
Goodyear ad featuring famous cars from 1915 to 1953.
Full page color Seven-Up ad with boy and girl playing
house. Teaching rats to count - Dr. Loh Seng Tsai. Hockey
players Murphy and Geoffrion battle - great photos.
West Indies Escapes - photos by Bradley Smith - Tobago,
Grenda, St. Lucia, Dominica, Guadeloupe, Saba. The Thirteen
Clocks by James Thurber. A case for ESP, PK and PSI
by Aldous Huxley. Seagoing ministers carry gospel to
Canada's lonely places - Shantymen. Back page Camel
cigarettes ad with William Holden.
VG - $36
G - $26
Life Magazine January
18, 1954 : Color cover - Saltonstall, Knowland
and Nixon in strategy talk with President. Crucial session
of Congress - six pages in color. Great series of photos
of ladies being served breakfast in bed : includes Mrs.
John Vuolle of Calumet, Michigan; Mrs. Hugh Estell of
Jackson, Mississippi; Mrs. Claude Jones of Panama City,
Florida, Mrs. Elmer Houser of Knoxville, Tennessee;
Jamie Chisam, Virginia Maxwell (Gazelle, California),
Mrs. Claude Jone (Panama City, Florida). Follow-up letter
and photo of Plymouth whale and burning it (see LIFE
December 28, 1953). James Landis steals money directly
from the US treasury. Great full page color Jell-o (jello)
ad with a happy stork. Heiress Maria Isabella Patino
y Borbon elopes with James Goldsmith. Nice two page
color Mercury ad with red car. Cutest photos of Julie
Shledon swimming at 9 weeks old. Death of Death Valley
Scotty, Walter Perry Scott. Great Falls, Montana Catholic
high school, many pages and lots of photos. Uses for
rubber in the home. Full page color Western Electric
ad with night watchman, art by Paul Rabut. Round Table
club of Beaumont, Texas. Ester Williams water skis in
movie "Easy to Love." Feature on the 1954
car. Amazing plane crash photo - Aeronca stuck in roof
in Muncy, Pennsylvania - pilot Ronald Neece was fine.
World's tallest basketball player is Wade Halbrook,
7 feet 3 inches. Paragraph and photo show how smart
Forest rangers from Tacoma caught log poachers.
G - $18
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has water marked upper edge, mostly in blank margin)
- $8
Life Magazine January
25, 1954 : Cover - Diane Sinclaire - she dances
out movies on TV. Full page color Texaco Sky Chief ad
with boxing glove. Diane Sinclair and Ken Spaulding
- silhouette dancing. Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio
get married, nice photos. British Comet crashes and
grounds the fleet, written by William D. Perreault and
Anthony Vandyk. Avalanche in Blons, Switzerland, many
photos including rescue helicopter, rescue dog, Maria
Meier, Anton Juen, coffin on chair lift, more. Photo
of Heinz Mannstedt coming off ski jump as his skis come
completely off! Queen Elizabeth visits Tonga. William
Randolf Hearst ships disassembled Monastery to New York,
then North Miami. US airbase in Thule is now operational
- photos by George Silk. Full page color Ballantine
Ale ad featuring winter skating, Curling, Skiing. Full
page color Pep-o-mint Lifesavers with Goat. Hasim Khan
from Pakistan plays great squash. massive mud slides
(earth movement) in Astoria, Oregon moves houses and
more. Color photos - Prince Valiant and Knights of the
Round Table movies. Full page color ad US Brewers Foundation
ad featuring party art by Haddon Sundblom, # 90 in "Home
Life in America" series. Hardy Soviet girls win
International Ski Meet. Anna and Erna Kalthoff twins
ride electric wheelchairs.
G - $24
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has a few water marked margins) - $10
Life Magazine February
1, 1954 : Color Cover - Lois Gunas, Canvas pants
in tropical wardrobe. Charming photos of little Pamela
Koner wearing her father's and mother's huge clothes,
father is photographer Marvin Koner of Brooklyn. Letter
to editor yields another photo of the Double Debs Pat
and Evy Bates (LIFE January 11, 1954). Correction to
Tongan language used in South Seas article, January
11, 1954. Full page Sunkist Lemons article with uses
for lemons that negate the need for salt. For real -
small piece and photo of Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hartley
of Petersburg, Indiana and their two-headed siamese
twin baby. Foe of segregation, brave David Lansden of
Cairo, Illinois. Photo of the suicide jump of William
Failey, State Hotel, Phoenix, Arizona. Korea prisoners
released from prison by Joe Scherschel and Jun Miki.
Full page color Old Forester ad - art by Nulsen. Funny
new film "It Should Happen to You" about fame,
Judy Holliday, Gladys Glover. French teach Vietnamese
soldiers to fight. Nuclear Powered Nautilus submarine
is launched. Full page color Jell-o ad with happy hippo.
Puerto Rico resort fashion photos, includes most amazing
(astounding!) female shapes in swimming suits - tiny
waists like Scarlet O'Hara, and many other photos such
as woman sliding into Piff Paff Pouf nightclub. T.S.
Eliot turns to comedy profile by T.S. Matthews. Dickie
Browning tries new high jumping technique using gymnastics
tumbling. Photos of lighted ice skaters spinning, Jubilee
of Light. LIFE commissions two new low cost school designs
- cool plans with great ideas. Portable ice skating
rink. The Last Man Club of Phoenix, Arizona. Back page
Coca Cola ad featuring the Prom.
EXC - $40
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mildly discolored) - $8
Life Magazine February
8, 1954 : Color Cover - Turtle returns to the
sea after laying her eggs. Peter Dorp makes art from
thread and knitting wool. Full page color Libby’s
Pineapple ad with hula dancer. Two page full color Kellogg’s
Sugar Frosted Flakes ad featuring a hep cat Tony the
Tiger. Great article on the growth of railroads in the
US. Ernest Hemingway survives another plane crash. Rene
Coty takes French presidential office. TV takes on Shakespeare
productions - reviews. Full page color Ballentine Beer
ad with ski lodge theme, art by Frederick Siebel. Japanese
crows steal golf balls at Unzen National Park. The World
We Live in part VIII - The Coral Reef by Lincoln Barnett
- 20 pages of great color photos. Ski racer - Chiharu
Igaya profile. Daniel Kay and Donald Ray Siamese twins
from Mrs. Cecil Hartley. A perceptive reporter in Russia
by Emmet John Hughes. Full page color Camel cigarettes
ad with ice skater Donna Atwood. Unusual full page color
Milky Way chocolate bar ad with Valentine's day theme,
art by Ludwig Bemelmans.
G - $18
Life Magazine February
15, 1954 : Cover - Should she change her Italian
hairdo - Zita Gahan? The Glenn Miller Story - movie
ad starring James Stewart and June Allyson. Divorce
proceedings of James Roosevelt and Romelle Roosevelt.
Gum chewing record holders - Sue Jordan, Clyde Stewart
McGehee, Richard Walker. Tawdry photos of Times Square,
new zoning laws on New York City's 42nd street. Full
page color Buick ad for 1954 Century. Julie Harris on
Broadway - profile. Picnic by Dog Sled in Castle Valley
Colorado. As Lincoln knew New Salem - new paintings
by Aaron Francis Phillips. Lincoln’s dog - Tad
by Dorothy Meserve Kunhardt. Full page color Morton
Salt ad featuring lemons by Pertchik. Joanne Gilbert
is still a fashion plate. Kremlin takes a big gamble
with Collective Rule by Emmet John Hughes. Full page
color Havoline motor oil ad featuring Jack Kramer tennis
player. Profile of Columbia College in New York. Full
page color Blatz Beer ad featuring skiers. Terry Brennan
replaces Frank Leahy as football coach at Notre Dame.
Back page color Lucky Strike ad featuring the Etiquette
of Smoking by Amy Vanderbilt.
EXC - $40
VG - $28
G - $18
Life Magazine February
22, 1954 : Cover - How Disney makes an undersea
movie - Jules Verne characters. Hawaiian citizens petition
for statehood. Two page color Oldsmobile ninety-eight
ad. Conservationists argue over proposed Echo Park dam
in Dinosaur National Park. Full page color Herbert Tareyton
cigarette ad featuring J. Bond Rogers and ice boating.
Inside look of Russian Embassy in East Berlin. New movie
production of Rose Marie by Busby Berkeley and Mervyn
LeRoy. Basketball record holder - Franklin D. Selvy.
Wallace Neff invents concrete dome house construction
- cool photos. The Dalai Lama I Knew by Heinrich Harrer.
Full page color Aunt Jemima pancake ad featuring the
Aunt Jemima Legend and steamboat. Full page color Smirnoff
Vodka ad featuring Sir Cedric Hardwicke “Vodka
is like a woman”. Artist from the east - Zao Wou-ki.
Jules Verne movie produces 20,000 headaches under the
sea - great photos by Peter Stackpole. Production of
the new polio vaccine by Robert Coughlan. Full page
Kleenex ad featuring a skiing Little Lulu. Two page
full color US Brewers Foundation ad - featuring art
by Douglass Crockwell. Back Page color Chesterfield
cigarettes ad with Deborah Kerr.
VG - $28
G - $18
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Magazine March 1, 1954 : Cover - Rita Moreno,
an Actress’s catalog of sex and innocence - satirist
of sex (she is sexier than Marilyn Monroe!). Polish
diplomat tells how he got away from Reds. Marine Corps’
pride on trial - Colonel Schwable. Charles City, Iowa
and the US debate jobs, includes photos of Bill Brandt
and children David, Ronald, Joyce, wife, Cliff Knowlton,
Dean Schlick, Horace Olds, Jack Winterink, E.G. Guthart.
Photo essay - Secondary education, Part 3 : Boy’s
Prep School, Hotchkiss School at Lakeville, Connecticut,
including photos of George Hixon, Boris Troyan, Lanse
Brown and others. A champion helps beat his own record,
Horace Ashenfelter and Fred Wilt. Never too old to Ski
- Fred Nash of Santa Monica, California at Sun Valley.
Fashion - what the Chanel storm is about. A predecessor
of the Gutenberg bible, Constance Missal. Life goes
to a Foresters’ ball in Montana - forestry students
cut down 3,500 fir trees to decorate gym, includes photos
of Shirley Pahrman, Frank Kirschten, John Lowell. The
making of a Pin-up : neat photos of Marilyn Monroe singing
for GI’s in Korea. Nice two page full color 1954
Lincoln ad with yellow Capri Coupe and two others. Great
full page color Schlitz beer ad with western dance theme.
Good photo of basketball between High Point College
and Elon, with Harold Sykes.
G - $22
Life Magazine March
8, 1954 : Cover - Churchill’s granddaughter
Arabella. McCarthy and the US army. Myths and facts
about being overweight, fat. Neat bunch of photos with
models in black so accessories are highlighted, model
Patricia Prunonosa. US Jet transport is unwrapped :
Boeing 707 prepares for race with British Comet. First
oil in Nevada, Shell Oil 67 miles south of Ely. Pictorial
essay - saving a vanishing frontier, Thomas Gilerease
helps save American Indian art and literature. “If
I were a diplomat for the West …” by Dr.
Marek S. Korowicz. Close-up : Egypt’s real boss.
Sports - a catch for Ted Williams fishing with Jimmie
Albright. School in a Rail car in Ontario with Fred
Sloman family. The amazing Master Dick Miller, magician
at age 16. Diving Clown Bob Smith and Aquamaid Mary
Beth Sanger get married under water. Amazing crash photos
of upside down bobsled in Oberhof, East Germany and
upside down race car with Johnny Parson in Gardena,
California. Neat photo of Audrey Hepburn in color, wearing
a fishing net and sea weed.
G - $18
Life Magazine March
15, 1954 : Cover - Mrs. Rockefeller. Puerto Rico
separatists shoot up the House of Representatives. Barefoot
Judge Parker Fulton (his shoes were wet from puddle
mishap) - photo. News photos, including 75 year-old
Fred Carr rescuing Fred Carr Jr. and William Elkington
and William Statham in Lake Superior in a row boat,
man named Hof jumping off building next to fireman and
ladder, Jean Reiser's car lifted by water spraying from
fire hydrant, more.. Billy Graham in London. More on
the New York harness racing scandal (LIFE November 16,
1953). Wow - bright two page color Del Monte ad showing
lots of their food products. How a new tax bill can
promote prosperity by George M. Humphrey. Full page
color Early Times Whisky ad with cattle sale art by
Earl GrossSyrian mobs take out General Adib Shishekley
and put in Hashem al Attassi. Via Flaminia off Broadway.
Geraldine Crean plays basketball with the boys. Red
Garters - A stylized horse opera with Rosemary Clooney.
Brain surgery of circus star Gorilla by Dr. Mason Trupp.
Color ad for Santa Fe railroad featuring Indian chief.
Weekend gardeners greenhouses. Ethel Merman in "Anything
Goes". New Jersey juvenile facility uses new treatment
techniques. Baile de Carnaval in Cuba with Maria Dolores
Carrillo and Teresita Mendoza. Back cover ad for Lucky
Strike with H. Allen Smith. Cute photo of elephant soaking
all four feet, Dumbo at the London Zoo.
G - $20
Life Magazine March
22, 1954 : Cover - Emperor Penguin. President
Eisenhower’s religion. Full page color Community
silverplate ad with art by Jon Whitcomb, completely
different from his usual. Pilot John Foster Dulles outsails
Reds in Latin America. Italy’s scandal of dope
and death, Wilma Montesi. Champion miser’s dollars
pour like wedding champagne, Jack Benny throws party
for his daughter Joan. The McCarthy issue stands. Photo
essay - sporting goods in color. Full page Ipana tooth
paste ad with Garry Moore. Livernois Avenue fights back,
in Detroit, used car dealers. . Experts choose the toys
of the Year, includes photos of Thomas Fansler, Alan
Roast, Emma D. Sheehy, Mrs. Lyonel Robinson, Mary Moffitt
(most are adults playing with toys). Mindy Carlson as
Bert Williams - Nightclub. Aviation - new US aim in
the air, Lockheed Pogo, F-102. Shortest yet in night
clothes. Dancer and comedian, Danny Kaye. Sports - Milwaukee
moves to Florida, baseball, the Braves. Rescue of dog
Jerry from culvert in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin - they had
to dig up the road and cut through the culvert, Howard
Schroeder. Neat full page ad with Austin-Healey 100
car next to Republic F-84F Thunderstreak airplane. Little
genius, Brian Van Dale of Lincoln, Rhode Island. Full
page color Atlas Tires ad with Richard L. Carlton fishing
in a stream, art by Robert Moore. Coolest photo from
Rawalpindi, Pakistan - huge sets of teeth outside dental
store.
VG - $32
G - $22
F (All G, but has extra
tanning) - $8
Life Magazine March
29, 1954 : Cover - Wonderfully cute photo of
actress Pat Crowley. Photo essay - Contrast between
Kansas City and St. Louis. One man clean-up drive in
Chicago, Robert Merriam. California’s new governor,
Goodie Knight. Photos of young people singing in a record
store : Jeanie Gibson, Marsha Harmon, Don Reed, Marjorie
Kish, Laurence Scott, Harland Thompson, Steve Katcher,
Dick Conana, Jose Garcia in Hollywood. First casualties
of the H-bomb, Sanjiro Masuda - one of sailors aboard
“Fortunate Dragon" and more. Bank scandal
in Clio, Alabama, Royall Reynolds - he left behind his
15 year-old son when he skipped town. Alderman Robert
Merriam works single handedly on crime in Chicago. Paragraph
and photo from Ionia, Michigan basketball game where
violence erupted. Tough time for Everest climbers, Tenzing
Norgay and Edmund Hillary. Medicine - determining deafness
in babies, with photos of Donna Marie Crescenzi, Suzanne
Phillips, Sidney Shapiro. Sports - teasing Willie Mays
and Whitey Lockman in a pepper baseball game. New Orleans
negro students get a new school, "Thomy Lafon school."
French dancer Jeanmaire. Sequel - a car the public helped
design, Nash N.X.I. Cute photo of Johnny Medro (one
year old) standing high in his father’s hand in
New York. Royall Reynolds of Clio, Alabama embezzled
from his bank Merchants Exchange. Neat two page color
Chevrolet ad with 14 different cars. New Thomy Lafon
school in New Orleans
VG - $28
G - $18
F (Generally VG, but
has water mark at spine) - $8
Life Magazine April
5, 1954 : Color cover - saguaro cactus at sunset.
Desert special issue. More on the ancient preserved
corpse of a child found in the mountains near Santiago,
Chile, Mount El Plomo. Photo of a bull jumping over
the fence at a bull fight in Caracas, Venezuela. Excellent
and charming full page color Texaco fire chief ad with
five Dalmatian pups playing with an umbrella. Full page
color Blue Bell Wrangler blue jeans ad with branding
theme. Two page Blue Cross insurance ad. Full page Bell
Telephone ad giving actual prices for various long distance
telephone calls. Banshee jet crash landing on aircraft
carrier, "U.S.S. Oriskany", pilot F.J. Repp
amazingly survives. George Parr and his Texas dukedom,
crime and more. Tomb discovered at 17,700 feet on Mount
El Plomo - Inca. Verdun stand in Vietnam, Dienbienphu
(see also LIFE March 29, 1954). Seagoing picket line,
related to discredited International Longshoremen's
Association, Photos of ship "Empress." New
suit for working safely around radioactive dust, Homer
Moulthrop. Full page color Westmore make-up ad with
Marilyn Monroe. Designer Freda Diamond. Historic photo
shows pandemonium in House. **
56 pound aquamarine from Brazil! Ben Hogan's
secret - golf. German cartoons lampoon Soviet version
of history. A fun story about the Eva Diley family of
Waukau, Wisconsin, cleaning their attic. Nice full page
Shopsmith ad in color, this is a combination shop tool
for home improvement.
G - $24
Life Magazine April
12, 1954 : Color Cover - Lively fashions for
sub-teens - These dresses look like square dance dresses
(big color feature on fashions inside). The Hydrogen
age is upon us - photos of the hydrogen bomb blasts,
city evacuation plans. Cute full page color Shinola
Dress Parade ad, color make-up for your shoes. New look
for windshields. Photos of British troopship "Empire
Windrush" on fire and the evacuations from her.
Photo essay - Art riches of the Andes. The C.I.O. loses
a fight with locals, Montana Mine-Mill, includes photos
of Fred Aur, Cliff Gerhardt, Bill Mason, Gregg Lowney,
Maurice Travis and others. Attractive full page color
Schlitz beer ad with fly fishing theme. Photo essay
- Ava Gardner. A romance that rocked Yugoslavia - Milena
Vrajak. Basset hound does bit for art, Jerry models
in sixth grade class in Seattle's Maple Leaf-Matthews
school, includes photo of John Couch and others. Graduate
course in baby-sitting. New and mightier atom smasher,
University of California Bevatron. Phyllis Smith, Phyllis
Curtin as Salome. Cute full page color Jello-o ad with
Kangaroo. A full HALF of the US watches Rodgers-Hammerstein
show on TV. Full page coro United States Brewer's Foundation
beer ad with art by Douglas Crockwell, # 93. One-handed
kid doesn't make it, boxer Kid Gavilon. Cute full page
color Texaco ad with frog. Nice full page color Sinclair
motor oil ad. Very nice full page color Studebaker ad
inside front cover. Marvin Hewitt - a phony with eight
different fake jobs.
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Life Magazine April
19, 1954 : Color Cover - the awesome fireball.
Color pictures of the Hydrogen test. Dave Beck, former
boss of goons, emerges as labor’s new strong man.
Neat full page Champions spark plug ad with Sam Hanks
and his car. Full page Sacony clothing as with Eileen
Carlson. From cheers to “phooey” for McCarthy.
Striking two page color Buick car ad with one color
page - yellow car on red background. Humorous land sale
in Texas, Lazy C ranch, BenJack Cage, 2 square inches
for 75 cents. Buffalo’s Cleveland Hill school
fire traps pupils at music lesson, with photos of whole
class plus Dennis Cervi, Michael Cody, Mr. and Mrs.
Elmer Frank, Joseph O. DuPont, many died. Pictorial
essay - a vision of Easter painted by William Blake.
Feature on the spice Curry. Pictorial essay - World’s
most exclusive clubmen. Oxford has 100th crewing boat
race, includes many photos historic and current including
J.J.H. Harrison, W. R. Marsh. Aviation - a new sight
in soaring, new glider has engine and propeller - the
Hummingbird, with Harry Perl and Ted Nelson. Life visits
the best dressed woman in Brazil, Thereza Leite de Souza
Campos. Dave Beck, boss of the Teamsters. Full page
color Herbert Tareyton cigarette ad with Barbara and
James Punderford.
VG - $38
G - $28
Life Magazine April
26, 1954 : Cover - Grace Kelly (feature inside)
. Amazing George Eastman, Photography's greatest early
days. Big-time baseball returns Baltimore, the Orioles.
Full page Sacony dress ad with Peggy Ann Garner. Letters
and a couple small photos in follow-up to the attic
cleaning story (LIFE April 5, 1954). More on the suspension
of atomic scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, plus profile
on his life. Ceylonese greet the Queen. Poker clubs
in Gardena, California. Dienbienphu on the phone - Jacqueline
de Castries talks to her husband Christian in his besieged
garrison. One of those vintage ads that makes you shiver
- full page color Spry shortening ad (like lard) with
greasy fried chicken. Peter and Constantin Georgescu,
hostages, are released. Modern art class decorated the
helmets of Jet pilots, Scott Air Force Base, 85th Fighter
Interceptor Squadron. Russia in winter - photo essay.
China's forbidden Green Island. Billy Joe Patton - Amateur
golfer does great! - story includes Ben Hogan and Snead.
Mechanical jaw fits false teeth, designed by Drs. Hary
and Albert Kazis. Whale's tour - a real preserved (dead)
finback whale tours the world, owned by Lief Soegaard.
New design for crop dusting, plane that can go really
slow, Bob Lamson, called the Air Tractor. A teacher's
tortured timetable, Ethyl Howard at the Linsday School
in Bay city, Michigan. Silly smoking, Robert L. Stern
and strange cigaret holders. . Full page color Pepsi-Cola
art with art by Robert Levering. Sleepless slumber party
at Martha Raubinger's house in Princeton, New Jersey,
includes photos of Frances Urken, Clodius Willis Jr.,
Connie MacNamee, Erna Gale Arnold, others.
VG - $40
G - $30
Life Magazine May 3,
1954 : Color cover - Stamps. First time in color,
eight pages of world’s rarest stamps. Photos of
child labor from 50 years ago : 1911 boys in coal mine,
1909 boys in cotton mill, 1911 girl in cannery. Spy
thriller outdoes fiction, Mrs. Evdokia Petrov in Sydney.
Runaway motorcycle slams into a Carolina crowd, Shriner
motorcycle without rider. Pictorial essay - Baltimore’s
Mergenthaler Vocational High School, with photos of
Joe Berner and others. My five-year exile in my own
country by Victor Raul Haya de la Torre. More SouthWest
dust storm photos, including Art Blooding and his family
from Colorado, lovely aerial photo of contour-plowed
fields near Walsh, Colorado. Kermit Terry goes home
for the first time at age 2 and a half, Jamesport, Missouri.
Cool two page color Spread paint ad with room in purple
and green. Feature on Secondary Education, part 4 -
Vocational high school, Baltimore's Mergenthaler Vocational-Technical
high school, not much safety gear in evidence. Actress
Dolores Rosedale, Roxanne. Willie Shoemaker, jockey.
Tupperware event in Kissimmee, Florida with photos of
Edith Berkenbile, Collette Maniaci of Dearborn, Michigan,
Betty Long of Rushville, Ohio, Fay Maccapulo, Annie
Quirk and others. Full page color Canadian Club whisky
ad with Sand yacht sailing, Clarence Hewitt.
VG - $28
G - $18
F (All G, but cover
and outer page are loose from the staples) - $5
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Magazine May 10, 1954 : Cover color - Beautiful
Bavaria, Neuschwanstein castle. Special
issue - Germany, a giant awakened. Germany’s
struggle to become a nation. German national character.
On the edge of the iron curtain. A tragic Bergausflug,
nine young hikers from Heilbronn die during mountain
hike. Charming photo of car with special port in truck
for big dog to stick his head out, a dogport, Germany.
The federal border guard, Bundesgrenzschutz, BGS, includes
mountain climbing and ski troops, ski patrol. A visit
to East Germany, photos. Explosion of art in West Germany.
Full page color United States Brewer Foundation beer
ad with art by John Gannam, # 94. Astoundingly beautiful
full page color Modess ad. Mania for Motorcycling. New
look at old Gottingen University. Historic Rhine in
Color. Dusseldorf, boom city of the Ruhr. New fashioned
girl, Edda Liss. Gemutlichkeit in Beer Hall. Life goes
to a big Bavarian blowout, Fasching in Munich. Cute
full page color Cutex nail polish ad, red. Full page
color Lucky strike cigarettes ad with cartoonist Rube
Goldberg.
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- $26
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page partly missing) - $5
Life Magazine
May 17, 1954 : Color Cover - Dawn Adams - starlet
and bride. Full page color Champion Spark Plug with
art by James Crabb. Al Hirschfeld does caricatures of
movie stars. Oh my gosh - WONDERFUL full page color
Jantzen swim suit ad with sparkly purple suit, art by
Pete Hawley. Warren and Jo Ann Kemmerling, actors, head
for Chicago. Nice feature article on Gibraltar. Roger
Bannister runs a sub four minute mile - great photos.
Congress authorizes the St. Lawrence Seaway. Joseph
Welch and Ray Jenkins - trail lawyers for Senator McCarthy.
Nice full page color Chip'n Shore blouses ad. New saliva
test tells the sex of babies. Full page color Canada
Dry with Annie Oakley illustration. Full page color
Ballantine Ale ad with party art by Monel. Renowned
artists come to the US - James McNeill Whistler, Sargent,
Mary Cassat - nice photos of their work. The happy state
of Shirley Booth - By the Beautiful Sea - musical on
Coney Island. Britain defends the Rock of Gibraltar.
The deliverance of Sister Cecilia by Sister Cecilia
and William Brinkley.Boys from Orelans, Massachusetts
go to sea on the ship "Nauset" to Monomoy
Point. Life goes to Nancy Dombkowski's first formal,
Michigan City, Indiana. Full page color Herbert Taryton
cigarettes ad featuring Anne Citron. Charming photo
of elephant helping baby elephant up muddy slope.
VG - $26
G - $14
F (All G, but spine
cocked) - $8
Life Magazine May 24,
1954 : Cover - Kaye Ballard in Golden Apple.
Painful looking full page Goodrich tires ad with lots
of nails. Delphine Binger collects over 5000 wishbones.
Half page Cole swim suits ad with the Female Animal
collection. The death of pilot "Earthquake McGoon."
Goose chases Canadian Trouper Cliff Cooper on his horse.
C.A. Anderson raises Monarch Butterflies. Hudson Bay
Eskimos carve traditional art. The last of the Samaritans,
a Jewish sect living in Nablus in Jordan. Water polo
is a rough game under the water. Full page color Niblets
Corn ad with the Jolly Green Giant. Successful hostess
table setting ideas. Broadway goes fancy free - photos
by Richard Avedon. New electronic computer analyzes
atomic structure. New crawling tractor tops them all
- from Benjamin Holt tractor to Caterpillar D-9. Hitchcock’s
Dial M for Murder - movie review. Brooklyn Bridge -
71 years young - great construction art. National reading
education problem by John Hersey. Two page ad for 3rd
Annual National Gold Day, beat Ben Hogan. Full page
color Falstaff ad featuring Dizzy Dean’s trophy
room. Back Page Coca-Cola ad with boy on roadster. Cool
full page trick photo of Margaret Hartig.
EXC - $36
G - $14
Life Magazine May 31,
1954 : Cover - William Holden. Civil Rights -
Herman Talmadge and Harry Briggs Jr, Ethel Belton, Dorothy
Davis, Linda Brown and Spottswood Bolling. Great baseball
photo - Granny Hamner and Ellis Deal race for first
base. Flying Saucer designs Bedell Smith at the Geneva
Conference. Full page color Blue Bell clothing ad with
hammocks, art by Tom Hall. Boeing tests new tanker-transport
airplane near Renton, Washington, photos of landing
gear failure. French retreat in Laos. Two page color
ad for Lockheed with Constellation. Eisenhower breaks
with McCarthy. Full page color ad for Jantzen swim suits,
really cute art by Pete Hawley. Rodney Brodie gets to
leave the hospital, Ferris, Illinois, he is a surviving
siamese twin. Linear accelerator at Stanford. Two page
color ad for Demetrius and the Gladiator. Annie Wright
Seminary prepares girls for college and life. Latin
American Panorama with Rufina Tamayo, Hector Poleo,
Sarah Grilo, Mario Carren, Lily Garafulic and more.
Ted Williams plays with an injured shoulder, baseball.
Sexy leading men: William Holden, Burt Lancaster, Frank
Sinatra, Robert Francis, Tab Hunter, Cameron Mitchell,
John Ericson, Steve Forrest and Richard Widmark. Pius
X becomes a saint. Extremely cute photo of little Jan
Schlueter and Ricky Lofy, Mrs. August Kachigian - on
the steps of the church for a wedding.
VG - $35
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Life Magazine June
7, 1954 : Color Cover - Icebound barrens of the
Arctic Tundra. Reporter Robert Capa killed in Indochina.
Aircraft carrier Bennington has explosion below deck.
Full page color State Farm Mutual insurance ad with
art by Franklin. Full page color Early Times bourbon
ad with art by Aaron Bohrod. Queen returns to Westminster.
Full page US Brewers Foundation ad with art by John
Falter with beach scene. New m-59 lifesaver fits jeeps
and floats. John Wesley founds the Methodist Church
- new movie review. The World We Live in Part X - The
Arctic Barrens. Full page color Bakelite Krene ad with
art by James Bama. The Pajama Game - new Broadway play
with John Raitt and Janis Paige. Robert Lee Turley -
pitcher for Baltimore Orioles profile. Staunton Military
Academy by Leonard McCombe. Full page color Waxed Paper
ad featuring woman art by Cashwan Noth. Two page ad
for Sante Fe railroad with New Mexico illustration.
Evangelist Billy Graham in Wembly stadium. High wire
marriage, Berty Omankowski and Roger Decugis, photographer
Jean Dieuzaide - 16 members of the bride's family had
died in previous falls! Fashion designer Horrockses
brings cotton to the US. University of Michigan - Michigamua
honor society hazing.
G - $20
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Life Magazine June
14, 1954 : Cover - Katie Richmond. Full page
color movie poster ad for "Hell Below Zero"
with Alan Ladd and Joan Tetzel. Mt. McKinley climbing
rescue - Marton Wood, Elton Thayer, Leslie Vierck and
George Argus, great climbing photos. Archaeological
triumph - wooden ship, Pharaoh Khufu (Cheops), is recovered,
discovered by Kamal el Mallakh. Pius XII proclaims Pius
X a saint. Honduras and Nicaragua worry about weapons
in Communist Guatemala. Ethiopian leader Haile Selassie
visits the United States. Chicago Whitesox baseball
stars - Rocky Krsnich, Minnie Minoso, Freddy Marsh.
The "Super Skyhook" helium balloon to study
cosmic rays. Two page Firestone tires ad with many Indianapolis
500 race cars of the past, drivers and speeds listed.
Okinawa play - The Teahouse of the August Moon. Giovannino
Guareschi, the creator of Don Camillo cartoon, is jailed.
Another awesome full page color Jantzen swim suit ad
with art by Pete Hawley. California's bold new fashion
look. Vampira - star of horror films, Maila Syrjaniemi.
Land speed record - 421 mph - Colonel John P Stapp on
a rocket propelled sled, to study effects on pilots
at bail-out. Teenagers going steady - photos by Carl
Iwasake, including Barbara King and Morrie Mawson (Greeley,
Colorado). Curtis LeMay - US Strategic Air Command by
Ernest Havemann. Perle Mesta's homecoming party.
G - $20
Life Magazine June
21, 1954 : Cover - Kim Smith, Chorus Girl. Neat
full page color Cycla-matic frigidaire ad with pastel
green and pastel yellow kitchens. Humorous photography
parody of stretchable T-shirt dress (LIFE April 26,
1954). Boom in Egyptian archaeology - new tombs found.
Kids working, includes photo of John Payne with his
lawn mower, Paul Payton and the cards he sells, Lois
Hennessy who sews doll clothes, Lorrie Barstow who
babysits, Glenn Bailey and his band, and others. Photo
of bride Eleanor Pompeo (Jersey City, New Jersey) and
her 48 foot bridal train. Kidnapping mystery, Mrs. Evelyn
Smith of Phoenix, Robert Pulcinski, Daniel Marsin. Dean
Shaw uses his home as a church in Denver, Colorado.
Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca perform together for the
last time. Feature on showgirl Kim Smith of Las Vegas.
Full page color Kellogg’s Corn Flakes ad with
art by Norman Rockwell. Atlantic Salmon a fisherman’s
delight. Lyle Borst designs the X-12 an atomic powered
train. Neat full page color Douglas Aircraft Corporation
ad with logos of all the airlines using Douglas planes.
Helen Keller story in "The Unconquered" movie.
I beat golfer Ben Hogan, National Golf Day, includes
Texaco Country Club in Houston, Butte Montana country
club. Eleanor Dodge young nurse in training - photos
by David Linton. While Eisenhower proposes the old guard
disposes by James L. McConaughy Jr. - illustrations
by Walt “Pogo” Kelly. Full page color Coca-Cola
ad featuring nice shopping lady.
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G - $18
Life Magazine June
28, 1954 : Cover - Sweater Girl bathing suits.
Guatemalan Revolution finally happens. Feature on Little
League Baseball. Boxers Ezzard Charles and Marciano
duke it out. Volcano Mt. Ngauruhoe in New Zealand. Harold
Hoffman dies with stolen art in his office. Full page
color Ansco Color Film ad with Helena Rubinstein. Ed
Furgol plays at the Westwood Country Club, his triumph
at the U.S. Open golf tournament despite crippled arm.
Full page color Pepsi ad with bride and sister. Neat
full page AC spark plugs ad with Firebird jet race car,
looks like an airplane. Kim Novak answers a questionnaire.
Joseph Haydn's skull is returned to his grave. Full
page color "Knock on Wood" movie ad with Danny
Kaye. Roy Arnold of West Springfield Mass - shows of
his collections of miniature circus parade models. Michael
Rougier wins photography awards and marries Marilyn
Stannard. Indian medicine man shows how Reserpine root
calms mentally ill. Little League baseball photos by
Yale Joel. The two faces of Chou En-Lai by Godfrey Blunden.
Full page color Lustre-Creme shampoo ad with Eleanor
Parker. A dig for giant clams, Puget Sount geoducks,
Clarence Easton, Betsy McCurdy, Duke Martin, Jack Freeman,
Kay Sooy, Jan Lewis. Amazing photo of horse fall at
jumping competition, Jean Knapkin on Patch VIII.
G - $18
F (All G, but two pages
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Life Magazine July
5, 1954 : Color Cover - Fourth of July fireworks
over busy highway, art by Rowland Emett. 12 more color
pages of Rowland Emett art inside - a friendly view of
the United States. Photos of bicycle safety school,
looks like a motorcycle safety class, White Plains,
New York. Full page color Havoline motor oil ad with
nice art of golfer Sam Snead. A photo of Vampira minus
her dramatic make-up and black wig. Interesting full
page color Bell Telephone with group of marines at Independence
Hall in Philadelphia, ad states "Color TV is transmitted
over telephone networks." More unrest in Honduras
and Mexico pertaining to Guatemala, supported by communists
against the USA. Wow! - Photos of 21 story tall building
(under construction) in New York City getting all 21
stories of facade in a single day! - 460 park Avenue.
The Air Force Academy gets a new campus in Colorado
Springs, Colorado. Robert Osborn and Herbert Brean illustrate
story with cartoons about Quitting Smoking - a cancer
society report has just linked cigarettes to a shortened
life. The story of Montgomery Ward Thorne and Maureen
Ragen, Monty died young, his will was contested, Chicago.
"Mr. Hulot’s Hubbub" is a comedy about
summer vacation craziness starring Jacques Tati. Full
page color Kellogg’s Corn Flakes ad with boy art
by Norman Rockwell (the boy was one of four kids who
appeared on the cereal box). Jayne and Audrey Meadows
- Tvs happy twins. John Landy beats Roger Bannister’s
1 mile running record. Soviet Secret Police colonel
writes about his experiences by Charles W. Thayer. Islands
for sale - if only they still cost this much now! -
includes Ben Landmark family, John and Barbara Cloud,
Stephen Sullivan family, Elizabeth and Lew Dodd. Restaging
the Pony Express, Marvin Scott, Ogden (Utah) to Kansas
City (Kansas), Vern Thompson, Gene Robinson, Amos Cook,
Charles Storey - two teams met in Colorado Springs in
the middle. Full page US Brewers Foundation ad with
croquet art by Douglass Crockwell. Cool photo of Vern
Crary water skiing and hanging from a kite.
G - $18
Life Magazine July
12, 1954 : Cover - Pier Angeli escapes to the
country. D. Moreau Barringer's doodles are turned into
Japanese netsukes. Cute photo of little Laura Lee Gilligan
penned up in her house waiting for the Rio Grande to
quit flooding, Laredo, Texas. Eight policeman are wounded
by Howard Ellis in Indianapolis, Indiana. New York Giants
baseball with Willie Mays. The war in Guatemala ends
after 12 days. Archaeology - Dr. T. D. Stewart, Dr.
Fred Wendorf, Keith Glasscock and the Midland man (Texas),
20,000 year old human remains. Chess tournament between
mark Taimanov and Larry Evans. Photos - Mexicans pit
a bull against a lion, the bull won. Birth of a baby
in Canada to Mrs. Mohammed Imdadullah, wife of Pakistani
- photo shows men whispering the call to prayer in baby's
ears, more. Theratron treats cancer tumors. Summer fun
by Ogden Nash - Bunch of Bananas and Rum and Coca-Cola.
Full page ad for Playtex Dryper - a flushable diaper.
Teacher Waurine Walker of Texas is new president of
the National Education Association. Lucille Corcos does
great illustrations of he life around the US. Farming
miracle - high nitrogen fertilizer. Hilarious auto tour
50 years ago by Robert Wallace. Back page color Camel
cigarettes ad with John Wayne. A Colossal Cake party
in Pryor, Oklahoma - photos include Charley Jackson,
eight foot high cake, ambulance that transported the
cake (in pieces) to party, and others. Cute photo of
Ralph McLean of St. Mary's, Ontario dancing with his
goat.
VG - $28
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Life Magazine July
19, 1954 : Color cover - Eva Marie Saint. Feature
on salads. Cool full page color ad for the Anscoflex
camera and flash. Uranium in west, a story about mining,
stocks (Salt Lake Stock Exchange), stock certificates,
more - photos include Don Hancock on Calamity Mesa in
Colorado, Monticello Utah, and more. Photo - Death of
jockey Vernon Smith at horse race at Rockingham Park,
in Salem, New Hampshire. Vietminh in cease-fire talk
with the French. Radar picket plane the "Pregnant
Goose.". Fossil skeleton of a 6 foot fish within
a 14 foot fish, Portheus, Quinter, Kansas, Walter Sorenson,
George Sternberg. More on the mysterious death of Montgomery
Ward Thorne (see LIFE July 5, 1954). Drought story includes
cute photo of Tommy and Jon Gull of Dorado, Kansas.
Cute full page color Jell-o ad with pink flamingo. The
Moulin Rouge club in Hollywood. The movie "On the
Waterfront" with Marlong Brando. Full page color
Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereal ad with a girl in pink
by Norman Rockwell (she appeared on cereal boxes). Flying
cars (a carnival ride) at Riverview Park in Chicago.
Wedding of a diplomat's three daughters. Full page color
Atlas Tires ad with T.Y. Arseneau on the Alaska highway,
art by Robert Moore. Dune buggies, called Dune bugs,
Imperial Valley near Yuma, Arizona. Ivory soap jubilee
celebration. A new haircut for women called the Feminine
Butch. New York's Thruway, latest of the superhighways.
Premier Mendes-France. Three daughters of a diplomat
wed on same day, Amparo, Victoria and Luzmila Fernandex-Concha.
Unusual photo of tennis player Kurt Nielsen.
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F (Generally G, framable
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Life Magazine
July 26, 1954 : Cover - Joseph
Welch, Army's counsel. Another awesome full page color
Texaco fire chief gasoline ad with five Dalmatian pups
on water ski board. Great color reproductions of 1880's
cigaret cards with sexy ladies. Short letter and photo
pertaining to runners Chataway and Freddie Green. Kinderlift
- 1,500 children, U.S. Air Force moved them out of West
Berlin for a vacation from the tension. Army Signal
Corps develops a huge camera that can see for 25 miles,
even through mist and haze. The flood of the Danube
river in Europe. Reginald Marsh's last sketches for
LIFE before his death. Handsome two page color Lincoln
ad with mint green convertible car, Lincoln Capri. The
movie "Seven Brides for Seven Brothers." Full
page color United States Brewers Foundation beer ad
with art by Douglass Crockwell, # 97. Class of new conductors,
Houston Youth Symphony, with Howard Webb, Forest J.
Peterson, Sandra Trevilion, Vonnabeth Redmon, Lester
Pogue, others. Flight from an exploding fireworks factory,
Chestertown, Maryland. Forced draft diplomacy. Sean
O-Casey - photo essay. Full page color Pepsi-Cola ad
with art by Buckham. Things you can buy at the "Five
and Dime" with prices. Boxer Thomas Jackson of
Rockaway Beach, New York. Lawyer Joseph N. Welch, Army's
counsel, tells his impression of the lessons and more
of the McCarthy hearings. Wire wear - fashion. Charming
and funny photo of three daughters of Martin Nudelman,
Ozone Park, Long Island.
G - $18
 Life
Magazine August 2, 1954 : Color Cover - Whale
steals summer show. Some prisoners of war return from
Dienbienphu, Indochina. Neat story about a helicopter
rescuing another helicopter (S-55 Sikorsky), Sandspit
Lake north of Marathon, Ontario. Scuba diver Ed Fisher
lives under water for 24 hours. One of those gruesome
race car crash photos, Silvertone, Great Britain, the
driver lived. Sarcophagus in Sakkara, Egypt - alabaster
beauty. Full page color Kellogg’s Corn Flakes
ad with colorful boy art by Norman Rockwell (this was
one of four kids that appeared on cereal box). Supermarket
experiment shows small fry to be sober shoppers in Cincinnati,
includes photos of Mike Buschbacher, Dale Schneider,
Deedee Everitt, Jane Cox, Christine Howald, David Thompson.
Glass revival - Venice regains bygone glory, great fancy
glass stuff. Farmer Wilbert Lanmeier and his family
and their pigs are on television, Cloverdale, Illinois.
Humorous "Parade of the Wooden Legs" in Brussels.
Full page color Borden Chocolate Milk ad with the Borden
train. Summer theater flourishes - photos by Gordon
Parks. Fashion - kilts for freshman girls. Branch Rickey
shows what wins baseball games. American summer theatre,
many are outdoors. Neat half page Bayer Aspirin ad with
racing motorcycle. Full page color Borg-Warner ad featuring
the Lockheed Super Constellation. Summer skiers schuss
into slush at Washington’s Mt. Baker (this is
like the scenes in Warren Miller's film - skiing into
a big puddle), photos include Tom Currie, Anne Ryan,
Ronald Limbacher, June Svedin.
VG - $28
G - $18
Life Magazine August
9, 1954 : Cover - Button Shugart, a boy cowpuncher
and his father, Jim Shugart (two page of photos inside,
San Pedro valley, Arizona). Full page Ipana tooth paste
ad with Anne Helm. Great photos of pogo sticks mounted
on stilts, Bill Gaffney and Tom Weaver. Hot wet work,
digging the Tecolote Tunnel in Santa Barbara California
- a very interesting story. Great two page color ad
for Dan River plaid fabrics. British pull out of Suez
canal zone. Great photo of the Northern Pike fish that
Oliver Hoglund almost caught. Full page two color movie
ad - The Black Shield of Falworth with Tony Curtis and
Janet Leigh. Big rock fall at Niagara falls. Final note
on Montgomery Ward Thorne case, death by natural causes.
Discount houses stir up a $5 billion fuss by Herbert
Brean. Public gets to view art collection of Philip
Lehman - cool photos. Cub'a boss, Batista. New transport
jet, the Boeing 707, includes great color aerial photo
of plan N70700. Pansy the Pangolin (an animal). Leonie
Vernet - New York model - profile. William Faulkner
writes A Fable notes on his wall. Full page two color
Kleenex ad with Little Lulu. Full page Champion Spark
Plugs ad with race car driver Bill Vukovich and his
car, more. A Hamlet enigma at Elsinore - search for
manuscript by William W. Wandivert. Bonnie Brigadoon
has moors indoors - new movie with Gene Kelly and Cyd
Charisse. Nice photo of Kathy Warren as an ice skater
Desmond Scott leaps over her, slicing an apple balanced
on her head en route.
VG - $28
Life Magazine August
16, 1954 : Color Cover - Beautiful Africa’s
spirited kids. Full page color Gleem tooth paste ad
with kids in tree house. Full page color De Beers diamonds
ad with art by Charles Rain. American Barber College
- balloons help train shaving skills - William Delasantos.
Super mile running race - Roger Bannister and John Landy
together, large photo feature. Photos of the B-47 ejection
chair, which moves downward from airplane. Guatemala's
new boss Carlos Castillo Armas. Conrad Hilton shows
off the Los Angeles Statler hotel. Governor Goodwin
J. Knight marries Virginia Carlson. Lightning strikes
a whiskey storage building in Pekin, Illinois, huge
fire and explosion - American Distilling Company. Dancer
Patty Desautels takes her kids to Red Skelton studio.
Short piece on the mountain K-2, Italian climbers make
the first ascent, Mount Godwin Austen. Africa’s
Basutoland retains its ancient dignity - photos by Ernst
Haas. 6 year old Hal Wacker draws portraits in New York
City. Two page color Sports Illustrated premier issue
ad - August 16, 1954. A chapel in a trailer, atomic
plant in Ohio, John Gensel. Nice color photos of Scorpion
airplane releasing rockets. French writer Colette -
obituary. Rear Window - Jimmy Stewart movie review.
Jacqueline Cochran - great female flying pioneer. Full
page color Atlas Tires ad featuring Andre Senutovich
with art by Robert Moore, red rock country uranium prospecting.
A curious bass fish diving party in Houston, Texas.
Another photo of a cow getting the man, Royale de Vaches
and Ragotteur. Back page Coca-Cola ad with young girl.
VG - $28
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F (All G, nice, but
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Life Magazine August
23, 1954 : Cover - Philip, Queen’s consort,
in the Yukon (feature inside). Cute full page Ethyl
gasoline ad with pilot getting a charge out of driving
a peppy car. Funny series of photos of Anthony J. De
Tomasi spoofing realtors claims. Rebellion and terrorists
in French controlled Morocco - photos by Jack Garofalo.
Cool rainbow painted Elephants - photo from Jupiter’s
Darling. Photo - funeral of one of the 20-year-old famous
Dionne quintuplets, the Diligenti children of Buenos
Aires are now the only surviving quints. Work on Kitimat’s
aluminum smelter, British Columbia, Canada - great photos.
Full page color Pabst Blue Ribbon beer ad with art by
C.E.H. Adventures of Robinson Crusoe - new movie with
Dan O’Herlihy. Half page Dash dog food ad with
photo of Dalmatian dog and fireman. Follow-up on the
running race with Bannister, LIFE August 16, 1954. Gil
Stratton is both a baseball umpire and a goofy TV actor.
New oil tankers are big and fast - World Glory is 736
feet long. Full page Pepsi Cola as - two people at the
beach. Bedford House in New York is for sale - John
Jay. Come, Natalie in my flying machine - flying commute
by Bill Mauldin. US Weather Bureau lab near Galveston,
Texas, in helium tank. Nice full page color Pepsi-Cola
ad with beach scene. US Brewers Foundation - card playing
illustration as Douglass Crockwell, #98. The Pajama
Game cast "Treasure Island Hunt " party at
Great Captain Island in Long Island. The Bedford House
built by John Jay, near Katonah, New York. Very charming
photo of Billy and Pepe, friends in the Bertram Mills
Circus in England.
VG - $28
G - $18
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Life Magazine
August 30, 1954 : Cover - Anna Maria Alberghetti.
U.S. senate acts to keep talented Alberghetti family
together. Cartoonist George Molnat and his new uses
for statues. Letter and photo of real sailing canoe
on Lake Erie in 1900. Christian unity shown with world's
biggest Protestant (and others) meeting in Evanston,
Illinois. Lovely full page color Lustre-Creme shampoo
ad with Virginia Mayo. Stanley Marcus of Neiman Marcus
(Dallas) offers 163 stewardesses temporary jobs, they
were stranded by American Airlines pilots strike, photos
include Margaret Ellis, Beverly Goff, Phyliis Curnutt,
others. Italy - test for freedom's strategy. Way cool
amphibian vehicle named Rhino - Indianapolis Indiana.
Four Jewish boy killers from New York City, Jack Koslow,
Melvin Mittman, Jerome Lieberman, Robert Trachtenberg.
Photographer Bob Wendlinger (who took a suicide photo
that appeared in LIFE March 10, 1952) talks potential
suicide Bernard Levenson off the Manhattan Bridge. Charming
photo and little story about Karen Kain (Troy, Ohio)
and her saddle-cow Peaches. Alcide De Gasperi dies.
Goa colony invaded by India. 100 years of yachting -
photo essay, lots of nice photos, comparative drawings,
models, more. Water skiing - cool photos of Joan Turbett,
Winnie Wolford, Dick Binette and Butch Rosenberg at
the National Water Ski Championships at Laconia, New
Hampshire. Northland - Detroit's modern bazaar. Jack
Webb is actor, director, writer and editor for Dragnet.
Boy's camp, YMCA Camp Classen in Davis, Oklahoma. Fashion
- Jumpers. Full page color Blue Bell clothing ad with
cute little boy in propeller beanie hat, art by CP.
Full page color PM Pleasant Moments whiskey ad with
art by Cunette. Full page color Lucky Strike cigarettes
ad with golfer Sam Snead.
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Life Magazine
September 6, 1954 : Cover - Dior's flat versus
buxom fashion looks in Paris. Fashion show - photos
great! Lovely full page Forstmann Woolens ad with great
outfit in maroon with grey and black. President Getulio
Vargas' suicide sets Brazil on fire. Humorous photos
of Carol Kane as her small plane pilot cuts an engine
(on purpose) - photos taken from second small plane.
Extremely nice photo of 12-year-old Clarence Brumm,
the catcher in a baseball game for Colton, California,
Little League, he is blowing a bubble of gum. Mistreatment
of tiger named Britches for show, they wanted her to
swim with Marilyn Maxwell. Young Louis E. Wolfson threatens
old pro Avery - Montgomery Ward's. Tribute to Alcide
De Gasperi. British wisdom at home, British folly abroad.
Photo essay - three Morman towns St. George, Gunlock
and Torquerville, Utah with photographs by Dorothea
Lange and Ansel Adams. Edith Maria Binde, Edie, finishes
college in one year, University of Illinois. Dr. Edward
Teller and the hydrogen bomb. Rock Hudson and Sara Shane
in the "The Egyptian." Automobile merger by
Studebacker and Packard. Nice full page "Watchmakers
of Switzerland" with Norman Rockwell's famous art.
U.S. Tennis future in kids - starting to coach kids
more seriously. Full page color Ballantine Ale ad with
art by Dorothy Monet.
VG - $42
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Life Magazine
September 13, 1954 : Cover - really cute photo
of Judy Garland as gamin (feature inside). Full page
color Blue Bell clothing ad with World Champion all-around
Cowboy Bill Linderman. Attractive full page color Greyhound
bus ad with Mount Rainier (probably). The real Willie
Mays, baseball. Full page color Atlas batteries ad with
art by Melbourne Brindle. Full page color Western Electric
ad with man testing reconditioned telephones, art by
Kurka. Another absolutely charming full page color Texaco
fire chief gasoline ad with five Dalmatian pups playing
with rake in fall leaves. 8 pages of color ads for Kroehler
furniture, Mohawk carpets, Admiral television, and Glidden
paints. In the middle of hurricane Carol, photos are
from Nantucket, Marblehead, Woods Hole, Martha's Vineyard,
Boston (historic steeple falls), Sag Harbor, Providence,
La Guardia, more. Bangs of the gavel chasten McCarthy.
The failure of EDC, and German Bundesgrenzschutz troops.
"Mr. Charlie" oil drilling barge goes to sea.
Hirohito submits to the air age. Venezuela - photo essay.
Very odd but cute full page Hanes stocking ad. Remarkable
Persons brothers - Seth, Wilton, John and Frank. Trapshooting
upset by 14 year-old. Baseball fights at top and in
second division. Oil boom in Venezuela. Swapping unwanted
presents. Evening shirtwaists. Philadelphia's exciting
playgrounds. Circling square dancers - Omaha - Photo
in color. Spoof on debutante party, Chicago - men in
shorts. Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds cause teen-age
tizzy. Full page color Chesterfield cigarettes ad with
Jean and Joan Corbett, twins.
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Life Magazine September
20, 1954 : Color Cover - The teeming rain forest
of the tropics. Another gorgeous full page color Modess
ad with gold lame couture. School cartoon art by teacher
Margery Brown. New movie - Land of the Pharaohs - great
photos by Ernst Haas. Earthquake in Algeria kills 1000.
Clement Attlee visits Red China by Rene MacColl. Full
page color United States Brewers Foundation beer ad
with art by JF, John Falter. Linda Mar in San Francisco
- makes housing projects into classrooms. Charming full
page color Hanes ad with little girl in bright red sleepers,
pajamas. Somascope - takes pictures with soundwaves.
The World we Live in - Part XI - great colors by Alfred
Eisenstaedt - illustrations by Rudolph F. Zallinger.
Option Play - new football tactic - Gene Calame ad Buddy
Leake. De Weldon sculpts bronze of Marines on Iwo Jima.
President Eisenhower starts work on the first Commercial
Atomic Plant at Shippingport, Pennsylvania. Joe Bauman
and Victor Seixas, more - Candid photos of baseball
and tennis. The new sex test for (as yet unborn) babies.
Royalty vacations on the Isles of Greece - photos by
John Phillips. Full page color Kellogg’s Corn
Flakes at with art by Norman Rockwell. Oklahoma makes
tallest structure - KWTV television tower. Florence
Henderson from Owensboro Kentucky. Great photo of a
fox pushing a goose in a carriage.
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Life Magazine September
27, 1954 : Cover - Canada’s Hydrofoil for
Navies. Quemoy Island - Chinese Nationalists defend
against Chinese Reds. Texas farmers test their wells
for oil - Anadarko Basin. The Adventures of Hajji Baba
- movie with Elaine Stewart. Boats that fly atop the
water - hydrofoils. Boxing - Rocky Marciano and Ezzard
Charles. Marilyn Bell swims across Lake Ontario. Marilyn
Monroe and The Seven Year Itch. Ribaldry in Medieval
Churches. Charming two page color Pfaff sewing machine
ad with mother and little girl dressed identically.
French dive to 1 1/2 miles in the ocean in Bathyscape
- by Kenneth MacLeish. A World in a City - Indians visit
Washington by Hank Walker. Full color Seven-Up ad with
farmers picnic. Garry Moore asks Americans to send nickels
to Marge and Chuck Deibel. John J. Teal Jr. attempts
to domesticate Musk Ox. Cleveland Indians and Henry
Benjamin Greenberg in the World Series baseball. Full
page ad for Sabrina movie with Humphrey Bogart, Audrey
Hepburn and William Holden. Full page color Pepsi Cola
ad with cute couple. The town of West Hartford, Connecticut
wants to keep their new teachers Jane Marshall, Carolyn
Cederholm, Barbara Blair, Mildred Johnson, Barbar Stephen,
Marjorie Gilson, and Helen Stohlman, others - badly!
Full page color Adolph’s Meat Tenderizer with
illus by Herve Morvan. Back page color Lucky Strike
ad with Jeanmarie. Nice full page color Blue Bell clothing
ad with art by Tom Hall.
VG - $28
G - $18
Life Magazine October
4, 1954 : Cover - Wiwan Worawan, Wellesley girl
and United Nations Guide. Cute full page color ad for
Johnson & Johnson Band- Aids with art by GRD, Gladys
Rockmore Davis. Notre Dame football coach Terry Brennan
- nice photo of plays, more. Full page Champion spark
plugs ad with race car driver Vukovich in the Indianapolis
500. Democratic candidate Roosevelt approved by Averell
Harriman and state conventions. McCarthy censure hearing
by Harry Johnston. Bill Holden, Humphrey Bogart and
Audrey Hepburn in Sabrina movie. Rabbit named Harvey
rounds up sheep in Eureka California. Nice color ad
for McGregor sportswear showing rappelling climber.
Profile of painter Ben Shahn. Super fine drill bit makes
holes in human hair. Show horse Wing Commander - photos
and story. Portraits of French men by Yousuf Karsh -
Andre Malraux, Andre Maurois, Andre Siegfried, Albert
Camus, Paul Claudel, Pablo Picasso, Darius Milhaud,
Pablo Casals, Georges Enesco. J Parnell Thomas does
to jail, writes an article. Cool full page color De
Beers diamonds ad with fanciful art by John Wilde, bird
looks a bit like a hummingbird.
VG - $45
G - $35
 Life
Magazine October 11, 1954 : Color Cover - Conquest
of K2. Italians conquer the Unclimbable Peak
- K2 - Lino Lacedelli and Achille Compagnoni - great
color photos, another great moment in mountaineering
history. Corporal Claude Batchelor convicted of aiding
the enemy in Korea. Baltimore opens is schools to non-segregationists
- Leon Thompson. Full page color Old Gold cigarettes
ad with two poodle dogs breathing second hand smoke.
London finds a Roman ruin under itself - Persian god
Mithras. Obituaries for Kokichi Mikimoto and Aw Boon
Haw. Workers race to Save Niagara Falls - a curious
story with great photos. Great full page color Texaco
Havoline motor oil ad with muddy football player, Otto
Graham. Russian’s make anti-US films for their
citizens. Chicago makes giant warm weather ski jump.
Amerigo Vespucci - 500th anniversary story by German
Arciniegas. Tom Hardy - Oregon sculptor makes metal
animals. Harris County Texas has mass dog rabies vaccination,
poor policy gave small dogs same dose as big dogs so
small dogs suffered. The Jesuits in America (missions)
- photos by Margaret Bourke-White - great history of
the brothers. World Series baseball - Dusty Rhodes,
Leo Durocher, Henry Thompson, Willie Mays. Herbert Hoover
Jr. profile. A big party at the Fort Peck Indian Reservation,
Montana.
VG - $52
G - $35
G (cover has mild soil)
- $30
F (All G, K2 article
is VG, last two pages are missing a blank corner tip)
- $20
P (Generally VG, but
missing 5 pages. Cover framable, K2 article VG) - $10
Life Magazine October
18, 1954 : Color Cover - Tacoma Congressional
Campaign. Another full page color Community silverplate
ad with art by Jon Whitcomb, his newer style. French
spelunkers near Grenoble descend to 2,963 ft - Pierre
St. Martin cave. Golf’s Greatest Putt by Bobby
Jones - 12 foot putt at Winged Foot Golf Club. Full
page B&W Ethyl gasoline ad with art by B Dolwick.
Profile - Melvin Belli by Robert Wallace. Full page |
