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Life
Magazine January 6, 1958 : Color cover -
Space pilot-to-be tests safety suit in heat chamber
- Scott Crossfield. Full page color Gleem tooth paste
ad with the mostly unbelievable smiley family ever.
Engineer Stefano Robino and a wonderful photo of his
family. Dutch expelled from Indonesia, photos of evacuees,
ship "Captain Cook.". Delicious looking full
page color Swanson ad with peaches and peach pie. First
successful ICBM - the Atlas. Two page color Ford ad
featuring the F-100 truck. 4 men of 23 survive crash
of Navy radar plane at sea, Guy Howard Jr., Richard
Rentschler, Thomas Kline, Franklin A. Henry Jr.. Pageantry
and products of NATO, color photos. Nice two page Goodyear
tires ad with lots of colorful cars from 1915 through
1957. "Man's New World" Part 3 - Into the
far frontiers beyond earth - on the way toward space
flight - photo essay. Elizabeth Burton - 6'2" blonde
and the sometimes humorous troubles of being tall. Basketball
training tricks in Wampum, Pennsylvania. Las Madrinas
debutantes, a big ball given in Los Angeles. Great photo
of pelican bird standing on Ellen Longworth's back as
she sun-bathes, Casey Key, Florida.
VG - $38 
Life
Magazine January 13, 1958 : Cover - Bloody
Sunday in Petrograd, art by Alton S. Tobey. Full page
color Snider's catsup ad with men in devil costume.
Half page Nestle's decaf Instant Coffee ad with man
in ski gear. Portentous Revolution: Part I: The Russian
Revolution (a very large feature in color). Nice photos
of Muriel Davis and Ernestine Russell doing gymnastics
moves, balance beam, parallel bars, uneven bars. Photo
essay - Busy music maker to high society, Lester Lanin.
Interesting full page color 1958 Ford ad with car in
Turkey. Pretty but plain full page Complexion Dial soap
ad with four colors of soap : gold, green, blue, pink.
Cool full page Oldsmobile ad with neat angles in photo
of cars. Wow - James Snider and Pilot Richard LaConte
are rescued from a crashed airplane by ladder - they
landed in a tree, not very solidly, either. Sophis Loren
is given a life sized cake of herself. Photo of Mrs.
Evelyn Shane, hostage in a holdup. Full page color ad
for Mars Marsettes, which look exactly like today's
Rolos. Gruesome full page United Nations ad with little
african boys with Yaws. Close-up: Young executive in
a hurry: Jerry Stutz. Full page Owens-Corning Fiberglas
air filters ad with art by Ludwig Bemelmans. Strange
rabbit eating habit. Full page yellow and white Pontiac
ad. Cute full page Norcross Greeting Cards ad.
G - $24
F (All G, but margin is faintly water marked)
- $9
Life Magazine January
20, 1958 : Cover - Lyndon Johnson, Chairman of
the Senate Preparedness Subcommittee, talks with newspapermen.
Neat full page 1 color ad for One-a-day vitamins. Super
excellent full page color Bell Telephone ad with little
girl, telephone doll, art by Pete Hawley. Charming photos
of Italian Luisa Pierotti laughing. Nice full page AC
Spark Plugs ad with car at gas station, skis on top,
humorous. Part II - “Russian Revolution."
Upheaval in Venezuela, dictator Jimenez has new cabinet.
Photo of crash of Air Force airplane KC-97 in Florida
Everglades swamp - interesting story. Photo of huge
tires at Clintonville, Wisconsin, used to haul fuel
over rough terrain. Three mothers go to Red China to
see captive sons, Mrs. Philip Fecteau, Mrs. Ruth Redmond,
Mrs. Mary Downey. Photo essay - A candid look at two
great resorts, Miami and Palm Beach. Proposals for a
nuclear-powered airplane. Full page color Walker's DeLuxe
whiskey ad, art by Ludwig Bemelmans. 1917 University
of North Carolina basketball team. Teacher Vincent Corsall
of Oswego, New York is fired for odd reason. New kinds
of wallpaper. Trying to save sick penguins in Portland,
Oregon. Theater - The Music Man. The bag dress. Dance
lessons for blind girls, St. Francis Episcopal Church
in Levittown, Long Island, Frances Chambers. Funny photo
- No visible means of support. Nice two page color ad
Buick B-58 in blue. Full page Avis Rent-A-Car color
ad.
G - $20
Life Magazine January
27, 1958 : Cover - Michele de Kramer of Paris
at St. Moritz (fashion article, some ski wear). Great
series of photos of blond girl and a group of men on
bridge in Stockholm. Nice full page Imperial whiskey
ad with theme of packing car for a ski trip, well done.
Peoria, Illinois and the Recession, photos include William
Naumann with unsold Caterpillar tractors, unemployment
lines, the bar across the street from the Caterpillar
plant, Bonnilyn Mackoway, Wayne War, Betsy Ann Ward,
Lily Irrera, Leroy Avery, Roy Goodman, Bill Bailey,
Joe Haefelin, Marion Maple, others.. Part III: “The
Russian Revolution” - The revolution starts. North
Carolina Native Americans break up Ku Klux Klan's anti-Indian
meeting, good for them!, with big photo of Charlie Warriax
and Simeon Oxendine. A bad earthquake in Arequipa, Peru.
Full page pink Scott toilet tissue ad along the lines
of the famous Modess couture ads. Jayne Mansfield is
wed under glass, you will have to read to see who her
100 closest friends were. Lyrebird. Full page color
ad Dodge Sierra Wagon in tan and beige. Nice full page
color ad for De Soto, white with red interior, with
LOTS of sailors. Lovely full page color Friskies dog
food ad with little girl and big dog of the Shaggy Dog
variety, art by Douglass Crockwell. The hunt for a new
football coach for Texas A & M. Full page Massachusetts
Mutual insurance ad with art by Norman Rockwell. Full
article about parents who interfere too much in their
children's lives, such as stage moms, sports dads, art
by Whitney Darrow jr.
G - $20
Life
Magazine February 3, 1958 : Color cover -
Shirley Temple and daughter with ugly pumpkin and Hans
Christian Anderson children's book. New business trend
uproots families - promotion means moving day, includes
Richard Cleves and family, Donald Hoover and family.
Full page color Oldsmobile ad with the word "Oldsmobility."
The film "The Golden age of comedy." Lenin's
bolsheviks kill democracy - the Russian revolution,
Part 4. Letter and photo related to Snider and La Conte
(LIFE January 13, 1958) about a similar crash in 1919,
Lieutenant Swan near Dayton, Ohio. Photo of Marisa Leonzio
in Italy, with her new bridge. Venezuela gives dictator
the bum's rush. Gail Whitney and Dick Cowell elope.
Hydrogen power gains with ZETA and Perhapsatron - fusion
energy. North Carolina Indians are at peace as the Klan
is held at bay (this is a follow-up story to piece in
LIFE January 27, 1958), includes photos of Mergie Chavis,
Burleigh Lowry, Walter Clark, Janey Hatcher, others.
Another ICBM flies. Fallacy of Kennanism. Wow - Shirley
Temple and her Storybook show. Clown painting by Walt
Kuhn. Former White House aide gets into a mix-up over
Tibetan mastiffs. Full page color De Beers diamonds
ad with art by Leona Wood. World Series baseball hero
Lew Burdette, Milwaukee Braves pitcher. Full page color
Camel cigarettes ad with mini helicopter, Dick Peck.
G - $38
F (all G, but margin
has minor water mark) - $15
Life
Magazine February 10, 1958 : Cover
- F.D.R., as acted by Ralph Bellamy. Teen-ager
becomes mass killer : 19 rear-old Charles Starkweather
kills 11 in Lincoln, Nebraska. Charming full page Hallmark
Cards ad with little boy giving valentine to his teacher.
Extremely curious full page Sugar Information ad about
calories and weight loss. Letter and photos pertaining
to Rose Cohen hearing her tape-recorded voice for the
first time. Heartwarming little story about a stranding
dog getting rescued out of flood waters of the Delaware
River at Trenton, New Jersey, Edward Jones did the rescuing,
good man. Divers at Pitcairn Island find the anchor
from the famous Bounty ship. Two page color Canadian
Club whiskey in a less cheesy style, about climbing
the rope into an already airborne hot-air balloon, good
photos of Francis Shields. Jupiter C satellite launched.
Photo essay - The skier's own world: Sun Valley, Idaho
and Alta, Utah. The need for nuclear tests. Photo essay
- sad degeneration of our dogs, effects of over-breeding
or bad breeding. Principal George Goldfarb, accused
of raping student, jumps to death, John Marshall Junior
High School in Brooklyn. Funny photo - Bubble trouble
in the choir: Robin Everett of Los Altos, California.
Two page color ad for Fords' family of new cars.
VG - $27
G - $17
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Life Magazine February
17, 1958 : Cover - Satellite tracking camera
scans sky for U.S. satellites at Organ Peak, New Mexico,
while Martin S. Burkhead and Charles Tougas observe.
What Explorer is telling us from space. Two page color
chevrolet ad with art by Austin Briggs. Neat full page
Sabena Belgian World Airlines ad with some model of
an atom that appears on their currency. Photo essay
- The changing pattern of a nation's health, distribution
of population by age and more.. Photo essay - Bachelor
father to seven youngsters, Californian Jim McQuiston.
Full page Munsingwear underwear ad with Mr. Basketball,
George L. Mikan. Full page color ad for the Sebastian
Highlands development in Florida, still empty. Fashion:
shorter skirts. Harold Schlichting, biology researcher
of Hickory Corners, Michigan, and the funny things he
does to waterfowl. Photo of Mrs. J. R. Bails with her
new baby, the hospital gave her this one for free since
she'd already paid for the previous 15 births! Funny
photo - Suspended football practice: 9-year-old Stanley
Blood of Flint, Michigan. Interesting full page color
Cadillac ad with red Fleetwood convertible. Dick Lee,
Dickalee, City clean-up champion of New Haven, Connecticut.
Full page Old Crow color ad with painting of Daniel
Webster visiting Old Crow's Distillery. Princeton seniors
state their views. Nice full page Buick ad with the
new blue B-58. Full page color Oasis cigarettes ad with
Ice skaters.
G - $17
Life Magazine February
24, 1958 : Cover - Fasching princess, Carma Baggs
of Ogden, Utah dances with her prince, Waldemar Wagenhauser,
and her paige, Helga Gerhart in Wurzburg, Germany. Neat
full page color Crane bathroom fixtures ad with lovely
pink sink, tub, toilet. Great two page photo full of
exuberant kids sledding, Yeadon, Pennsylvania. Cool
full page color Oldsmobile ad with pink convertible
on California coastal road. The French accidentally
bomb a school in Tunisia. Fired professor Bernard Schwartz
becomes chief counsel for the House subcommittee investigating
the Federal Communications Commission. Seven New York
boys on trial for murder of polio victim Michael Farmer,
they were in the Egyptian Dragons gang. Photos of the
demolition of the House of St. King Louis, Rio de Janeiro.
Photo essay - The many happy returns to Jack Benny.
Orson Wells in "The Long, Hot Summer." The
young, zoo-born ape named Colo. The Walter Kerr family
- close-up. History of the English-speaking peoples,
volume 4 part 1, the Noblest WAr - by Sir Winston Churchill.
Sports: baseball forms two big leagues. Photo - A shoe
that got left in the church: Bride Nancyn Vance, of
Bellefontaine, Ohio lost shoe as she walked down the
isle. Full page Chrysler color ad with blue Windsor
4-door sedan.
G - $15
Life Magazine March
3, 1958 : Cover - Sally Ann Howes, Broadway's
new ‘Fair Lady'. First ad I remember for an oven
door which lifts off for easy cleaning, full page color
General electric ad. Full page color real estate ad
for Port Charlotte, Florida. Double page color Early
Times Whisky ad with 9 different drinks in special glasses,
each with a recipe. Curious photos of Michael Kidd directing.
Record busting winter of 1958, includes photo of Army
helicopter (landed) with food for stranded families
near Lake Ariel, Pennsylvania, Mary Murley and Bridesmaids
on way to church in Boston in blizzard, Pennsylvania
farmboy with burst appendix on stretcher being carried
to helicopter, Barry Tucker (Ludlow, Vermont) leaping
from his roof, Kenny Tofferi leaping between snow banks,
Robert Wosnig (West Allis, Wisconsin) puzzling at icicle,
ice covered warehouse in Atlanta after fire, Death of
Alvie Potts of Gurley, Alabama, more. Lovely two page
Ford Ranchero ad with blue, white and gold truck. Donald
G. Farrell lives in a space chamber at the School of
Aviation Medicine in San Antonio for 168 hours straight.
Full page Bell Telephone ad with Norman Rockwell-like
art, but by Pete Hawley. Murderer Nathan Leopold Jr.
is granted parole from prison. Eight American painters,
the Ashcan School, Shinn, Henri, Lawson, Davies, Glackens,
Luks, Prendergast, and Sloan. English Speaking Peoples,
Volume 4, part 2, by Sir Winston Churchill. Biggest
thing in town - Sharon Springs, Kansas likes basketball.
Funny photo, the which-way car. Full page Lincoln ad
with a green Lincoln Landau.
G - $13
Life Magazine March
10, 1958 : Cover - Yul Brenner in movie, “Brothers
Karamazov”. Full page Hanes stockings ad with
distinctive art by Vladimir Bobri. Rather humorous full
page color 7up ad with pair of young folk absolutely
riveted to the television. GREAT two page General Motors
ad that is really the story of Walt Sprague of Portland,
Michigan, with photos. Cute full page color Carnation
instant milk ad with the first milk moustache I remember
in LIFE. Full page color Owens-Corning Fiberglas Acoustical
ceiling tiles, with names and angels. Nice full page
Pepsi-Cola ad with oriental theme. Color photos of the
Thor IRBM missile and Atlas ICBM missile taking off.
Fidel Castro is becoming an important influence in Cuba,
feature story on Cuba includes interesting photo of
burning and crumpled Sinclair Oil tank, photos of a
crazy race car crash in Cuba, driver Cifuentes. Cheerful
full page color Post Bran Flakes cereal ad with man
singing in shower. The lost bus with 27 dead in Big
Sandy River, Kentucky, photos include four of the 20
survivors William Leedy, Donald Dillon, Jeff Gunnel,
Darvin Derossett (see also LIFE March 17, 1958). Photo
essay - The passionate Karmamzovs. English Speaking
Peoples, Volume 4, part 3, by Sir Winston Churchill.
Gorgeous, glowing full page color Milk ad with art by
Jon Whitcomb. All American basketball team includes
Oscar Robertson, Bob Boozer, Elgin Baylor, Wilt Chamberlain,
Guy Rodgers, first all negro team. Photo essay - drama
beneath a city window, photos out of window about lower
Sixth Avenue in Manhattan. Centenary at Lourdes. The
Yacht Valinda is taken over by 21 escaping prisoners,
Mildred and William Rhodes Hervey Jr. Humorous giraffe
photo - Bending over backward. Full page Pontiac color
ad with yellow and white custom Safari.
G - $17
F (Generally G, but cover rubbed) - $7
 Life
Magazine March 17, 1958 : Color cover
- Best selling vocal group, The McGuires (feature inside)
- very cute photo in yellow and olive green. Full page
color Oldsmobile ad starring Patti and Jerry Lewis,
at his office. Neat photo of workers at the Hasiheisa
cotton gin in Sudan. Behind rebel lines in Sumatra,
photos by James Burke and Marc Riboud. Nice photo of
Marian Rosen, lawyer, who has just been admitted to
practice before the Supreme Court. A wow-type photo
of Matador guided missile units with guard Lemuel Riddlespreger
and watchdog Bonzo. Follow-up on the Big Sandy river
bus accident (See LIFE March 10, 1958). Pearl McLain,
girlfriend of Anthony Coppola, gambler. The bishop of
Prato (Italy) officially defames couple for having civil
marriage ceremony (Mauro and Loriana Bellandi), and
is reprimanded. House of flying objects is a ghostly
mystery, James M Herrimann house at 1648 Redwood Path
in Seaford, New York, written by Robert Wallace. Another
gorgeous, lovely Scott toilet tissue ad with couture.
The hungry sea star menaces oyster industry. New Luxury
world of bowling. Tricks in tousled hair styles. Do-it-yourself
Samaritan - Dr. Thomas Dooley raises funds for medicine
in Asia. New York City's problem students, includes
Luis Ponce, Arthur Gubelman, Maurice Holden, Tyrone
Thompson, Leroy Webber, others. Nice full page color
ad featuring lots of different Red Cross shoes. The
Detroit Athletic Club lets in sons. Cutest photo of
little Danny Fry with a parakeet bird on his head. Neat
full-page ad of 1958 Oldsmobile Fiesta - coral color.
G - $30
Life
Magazine March 24, 1958 : Cover - Alexei
Kutzkov of Moscow and Stephen Lapekas of Chicago are
16-year-old schoolboys a world apart. Oh-la-la full
page Maidenform Bra ad, wowie! Neat photo of a car that
really does have two front ends, belongs to a Brooklyn
auto repair shop. Charles Eames creates a bunch of whirligigs
that are precursors to solar-powered machine. A new
crisis in education, part 1. Photo of Jesse Horelica
crashing his motorcycle during a race. Banishment of
a lovely queen - Soraya of Iraq, she is divorced by
Shah because she hasn't yet had any children. An unarmed
atomic bomb is accidentally dropped near Mars Bluff,
South Carolina, Walter and Ethel Gregg's home in destroyed.
Another neat full page color Sabena Belgian World Airlines
ad with airplanes and helicopter. Photo essay - Exciting
commotion off-Broadway. A monstrous mistake 59 years
ago, Mayo Buckner was wrongly admitted to a mental institution
(Lenox and Glenwood, Iowa). Close-up: George Romney
of American Motors succeeds in long-shot gamble on short
cars with better gas mileage. Sculptor Louise Nevelson
and her Moon Garden. The Kentucky Derby horse race,
Wilky Sullivan, owners Tom Ross and Phil Klipstein.
Full page color Post Raisin Bran cereal ad with art
by Dick Sargent. Neat photo of a black cat below a grate.
Two page Ford color ad with many of the new Fords. Nice
full page Coca-Cola color ad.
G - $25
Life
Magazine March 31, 1958 : Color cover - Oregon
Science teacher Donald Pearson with Homemade learning
aid. Crisis in Education Part 2 - our urgent teacher
problem in pay, overwork and training. Full page color
Cadillac ad taken at the Desert Inn. Letter and photos
from George B. Motheral and rescue of men who escaped
from Devil's Island prison. Worlds fair in Brussels.
Ceylon - color feature by Dmitri Kessel. Too few teachers
by NR Farbman. Hidden sell - subliminal gimmicks (Includes
photo of Marilyn Monroe) by Herbet Brean. Singer Johnny
Mathis. Liz Taylor's husband (producer Mike Todd) dies
in plane crash southwest of Grants, New Mexico. Very
cute full page color Post Toasties cereal ad with art
by Dick Sargent. John Peter Hagen is the space age's
first fall guy, Vanguard satellite. More snow storm
photos including Mrs. Jennie Trout (Kulptown, Pennsylvania),
Robert Drysdales (Riverside, Rhode Island), more. Curious
full page color AC oil filter ad with Aloha, Oregon
and Cumback, Indiana. Judge Robert Traver writes a book
"Anatomy of a Murder." First Presbyterian
church dedicated in Stamford, Connecticut. Wettest show-girl
act at Cafe de Paris. Follow-up story about Marissa's
bridge (see LIFE February 3, 1958). Zsa Zsa Gabor gives
black-tie birthday party for her 11-year-old daughter.
Full page color Winston cigarettes ad with two clean
cowboys, cowgirl.
VG - $22
G - $13
Life
Magazine April 7, 1958 : Color cover - Sugar
Ray beats Bailio - amazing photo. Yummy looking full
page color Jell-o Lemon Chiffon pie ad with fluffy pie.
Neat double page color Owens-Corning Fiberglas insulation
ad with nicely dated kitchen, den and livingroom with
four little boys playing cowboys and indians. Two page
Dream kitchen ad with Milkman Frank Shelly of the Modern
Dairy Company of Elgin, Illinois and the Whitmire family
in the same town. Photo of little Laurie Dee Denenburg
of Cleveland with a bird on her head. The U.S. Space
Program is growing. Crisis in Education Part 3 - How
U.S. Wastes its gifted children. Abby and Ann - twin
lovelorn queens - Abigail Van Buren and Ann Landers.
A happy hidden life ends for AWOL GI, his French sweetheart
and five children, Wayne Powers of Chillicothe, Missouri
was hiding in Mont d'Origny for 13 years. Boxing matches
between Sugar Ray Robinson and Jake Lamotta, Randy Turpin,
Bobo Olson, Gene Fullmer and Carmen Basilio - Sugar
Ray wins title for fifth time. Picket line marks millionaire
Baby's (Francisco Pignatari) ungallant farewell to Linda
Christian's arms. Metropolitan museum purchases Flemish
altarpiece. Albie Pearson, rookie baseball outfielder.
Indestructible Clark Gable in his 61st and 62nd films.
Elvis Presley is drafted into the Army (really!) Gifted
child Barry Wichmann of Rockwell City, Iowa.
G - $37
Life Magazine
April 14, 1958 : Cover - Gwen Verdon as a Brokenhearted
harlequin. Sweater girl, Lana Turner's saga of stardom.
Humorous spoof on soccer from Russia, these are photos.
Full page color Rath Meat Balls ad, these are pre-prepared
meatballs that come in a box. Homegrown forms of the
political tax cut for stimulating the economy, includes
neat story of Clifford Daly who owned the supermarket
in Grosse Ile, Michigan - he gave every customer a chance
to win a sack of 500 silver dollars with an unusual
contest. Soldier James Gavin goes off duty at Fort Bragg,
North Carolina in an impressive ceremony. Photo essay
- Eleven fine actors get their dream roles. Fidel Castro
on the eve of his bid for power in Cuba. The revolt
in Indonesia. The duckbill platypus. Very colorful full
page Simoniz floor wax ad with kids and muddy dog. GREAT
full page Post Grape nuts cereal ad with art by Dick
Sargent, svelte young girl trying size 10 dress - sizes
have changed! Rebuilding the bridge of Santa Trinita
by numbers. Photo essay - Tryouts for good ideas. Inside
a teen-age gang in Brooklyn, New York. Jazzman W. C.
Handy dies. Nice sequel piece on Skeezix Bonzi of Escalon,
California (see May 26, 1947). The Vincent Club of Boston
puts on a follie Bolshevik Below the Belt. Full page
Edsel color ad with white convertible/pink interior.
Full page Lincoln color ad with a blue Lincoln Landau.
G
- $20
F (All G, but cover lightly soiled) - $7
Life Magazine April
21, 1958 : Cover - Jacqueline, Caroline and Jack
Kennedy (JFK). Lovely full page color Post Grape-nuts
flakes ad with office art by Dick Sargent. Photos of
the doll Edith who "stars" in the book "Holiday
for Edith and the Bears" by Dare Wright. More on
Cuba, Batista and Castro. Wow - quite the rescue photo
of Diane Webb in the San Gabriel river of California.
Striking two page color Cutex lipstick ad. Drought caused
refugees in Brazil. Neat two page Toro ad with mower
and all the attachments. NEW - the mobile covered bridge
for disembarking from airplanes. Lana Turner in court
over Johnny Stompanato murder. Nice two page color Chrysler
ad with Windsor Dartline car. Khrushchev visits Hungary.
How the Russian people vote by Hedley Donovan. Aquatic
adventure in Australia, surfers, swimmers, boaters.
Full page color Velveteen ad with the most lovely girl,
it is for pimple creme. All the different beach and
water sports in color from Australia including surf
boating. Renaissance art expert Bernard Berenson. Marjorie
Morningstar - starring Carolyn Jones, Natalie Wood.
Crisis in Education, Part 4 - Education in America -
new ideas including parents helping by teaching at home.
Pentagon reorganization by Neil McElroy. Back cover
ad for Coke - drinking at the Brussels World’s
Fair. Neat photo of six men carrying a piano on their
heads.
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Magazine April 28, 1958 : Color cover - Willie
Mays leads Giants into San Francisco (baseball). Neat
full page color Lady Schick shaver with three of the
fanciest shavers you've ever seen, too bad they don't
still make them like this. About ten pages related to
a Philco-Bendix ad including a list of ALL the dealers.
Pretty full page color Oldsmobile ad with purple car
98, lovely. OK, amazing photo of a waterskiing elephant,
Beatty Hamid. Curious tornado damage photo from outside
Fort Pierce, Florida. Photo of the race horse Silky
Sullivan rolling. More fighting in Indonesia. Full page
Sabena Belgian World Airlines ad with a helicopter.
Russians wow U.S. and vice versa, all different activities.
Reform of Frenchie - teen-age gang leader turns good
citizen. French Premier Felix Gaillard falls to a bitter
foe. Indonesian rebellion against Sukarno's government
fades. Navigator's menace exploded at Ripple Rock. Schoolboy
revolt fails in Tuscaloosa. Headband's new heyday. Full
page Johnson outboard motor ad with water skiing. Pairs
from the natural world, painted by Walter Linsenmaier.
Feature on big league baseball and California, also
photos from a baseball game in Los Angeles. Rich find
of Assyrian ivory. Popular rise of the pole light. Collegiate
spring spree fills the beaches at Fort Lauderdale. Full
page American Institute of Men's and Boys' Wear ad with
golfers. Humane society stops Austin High School and
Brownsdale High School of Minnesota from using any more
mice in their model rocket tests. Neat article about
Ad men, advertising. Great photo of French parachute
jumper leaving the plane. Full page Walker's whiskey
ad with exotic travelers art by Ludwig Bemelmans.
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Life
Magazine May 5, 1958 : Cover - a supervoltage
x-ray machine for cancer patients. Full page color Hotpoint
ad with the neatest refrigerator, it is mint green inside.
Lovely double page spread photo of Swedish girls in
bathing suits - Gunilla Asp, Lisbet Redner, Sangrid
Nerf, Maire Ahlstedt, Berit Kullander, Marianne Ljunggren,
Jessie Flaws, Ann Faken, Bernice Hildegard, Marita Holm,
Birgitte Ander. Cool full page color Revlon ad for gold
fingernail polish. Five young airmen lose their lives
- Peacetime tragedy for paratroopers of the 101st Airborne
Division, Michael Robles, Alfonzo Martinez, Dannie Ruffin,
Carl Payne, Elliott Morley, with photos, article also
includes some great photos of parachuting under very
difficult conditions. The West Indies, a new nation
(Jamaica, St. Kitts, Angulla, Nevis, Antiqua, Montserrat,
Doninica, St. Lucia, ST. Vincent, Grenada, Trinidad,
Tobago, Barbados.). Jerry Sprague of Bad Axe, Michigan
dresses up as a spaceman and scares the townsfolk. Two
page color American Airlines ad with art by Al Parker.
Big car sale in Flint, Michigan. Photo essay - Brink
of a breakthrough on cancer, includes some named survivors.
How you really dream. Cute photo - a double ducker transport.
Cuban born fashion designers. The movie "God's
little Acre" with young Michael Landon as an albino.
Full page Cadillac color ad with blue Fleetwood.
G - $28
Life Magazine May
12, 1958 : Cover - Former Iranian queen, Soraya
in Bermuda garden. Attractive and unusual full page
color Jantzen sport clothes ad, not by Hawley. Photo
of two really cool metal helmets for knights. Theater
- "My Fair Lady" - Britain loves it. Photo
and neat little story about James Obenauf, a pilot who
elected to land his burning plane rather than bail out,
that way he saved crewman Joseph Maxwell who was unconscious.
Excellent photo of Alfred Landosky's car on collapsed
bridge over the Kawkawlin river near Bay City, Michigan.
The race horse Silky Sullivan does poorly in the Kentucky
Derby. Lovely full page pale blue Scott toilet tissue
ad with couture. French variety meats such as tripe
and sweetbreads. Humorous article about gardening by
Phyllis McGinley. Nice color feature on Expressionist
art. Full page color Milk ad (American Dairy Association)
with art by Albert Dorne. A very neat article about
Quarter Midget race cars for little kids, they go to
28 MPH. Nice two page color Pabst Blue Ribbon beer ad
with couple on bicycle built for two. The race to map
the earth, includes art by Arthur Shilstone, photo of
peak top outpost in Greenland, more. Full page Douglas
airplane ad with color baseball theme. Photo essay -
Brussels light-up time. Photo essay - Soraya in search
of solace. Boom in a violent art. Footloose high over
Paris. Half page red color ad for VERTIGO movie.
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19, 1958 : Cover - Margaret O'Brien, wow, how
the girl's grown. Full page color Portland Cement Association
ad with George Gobel. Full page Vitalis hair tonic ad
with Dick Audler, diver, salvage expert from New Orleans.
Rather amazing photo of a mother of one Miss England
contestant accusing another contestant of wearing a
waspie (girdle). Really neat photo of two logging trucks
working together to haul a 275 foot long log on a tricky
road in British Columbia - it was going to Great Britain
to be the world's highest wooden flagpole. Young Prince
Juan Carlos of Spain. The curious case of the horse
sentenced to death by the will of Eleanor Lucan, horse
Tom Boy. The most primitive men, Bindibu huntsmen of
Australia, Australian Aborigine tribe, hard-to-believe
photos. Vice-President Richard Nixon against the mob
in Lima, Peru. Test of football helmets in hopes of
preventing future head injuries, include Roger Donnahoo,
Larry Bielat, Henry Montoye. Historic photo of the Klondike
gold rush of Alaska and Canada. Photo essay - Dancing
British beauties in France. Neat full page color Du
Barry lipstick ad with the strangest orange hat and
bee pin. Fourth face of Eve, Evelyn Lancaster. Charming
photo - heart-shaped petal nosepiece for a pup. Full
page color Coca-Cola ad on back cover with cowboy, cowgirl
and cook wagon.
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Life Magazine May
26, 1958 : Cover - Two rioters kick Vice President
Nixon's car in Caracas, Venezuela - that would have
changed USA history if he hadn't "barely escaped
death" at the hands of a Caracas mob. A friend
of America, Lebanon, is imperiled by a pro-Nasser revolution.
Neat double page Jergens lotion ad with four different
pastel colors of lotion dispensers. Cute little photo
of duck (Nicky) riding on dog (Dusty) for a swim. Turmoil
in both Paris and Algiers. Full page color Friskies
Dog Food ad with schnauzer dog sitting up and holding
can opener. Minnesota shows its beauties - 47 different
queens. Senator Knowland's wife and daughters help him
campaign. Photo essay - New England. Why Britain's angry
young men boil over. Stan Musial's day - makes his 3,000th
hit in baseball. Senator Knowland's family campaigns,
including a cute photo with a baby elephant. Poucette,
painter from Paris. Bob Hope and Fernandel in Paris
Holiday. Sputnik and a jumbo space lab. Fashion - belts
in odd places. A boy's first car, Kerry Granger of Wichita.
Zsa Zsa's party. Television - the horror movies. Photo
essay on New England. Full page color Mobiloil ad with
baseball theme art. Doyle Primm blows perfect circle
of foam from beer glass - neat photo. Full page color
Cutex ad with lots of strawberries. Full page red color
ad for VERTIGO movie.
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Life Magazine June
2, 1958 : Cover - France's General Charles de
Gaulle holds a press conference. The recession and you.
Gay gathering of governors in Florida. Quite nice full
page red and brown McGregor sportswear ad with art.
Full page New York Stock Exchange ad with student Ronald
Thorneycroft. Spring carnival pictures at the University
of Detroit. Residents of Chateau-Thierry in France discuss
De Gaulle. Two experts (Sylvia Porter and Ralph J. Cordiner)
tell us what to do about the recession. Nice full page
color Post Sugar Crisp cereal ad with more charming
art by Dick Sargent. Stan Musial gives his friends Dickie
and Cora Kerr an eight-room house, baseball. Arthur
McGonigle makes a huge pretzel, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Another fatal mid-air crash starts a national debate
about air safety. Fatal mishap for Nike Ajax missiles
- one blew up, taking others along. Photo essay - Sailboat
Vim prepares for America's cup, big feature article.
The feuding past of the America's cup. Star Ronald Colman
dies at 67. Close-up - Secretary of Agriculture Ezra
Taft Benson. Television - Elfrida von Nardroff wins
the TV quiz show "Twenty One." Crazy story
about a Catholic landlady bricking her tenant into
his apartment because he was a Protestant minister,
the town backed her up!, Mrs. Gemma Rasile, Umberto
Righetti, Fondi, Italy. Gorgeous full page color Scott
toilet tissue ad with six different colors of couture
AND tissue. Very funny photo of a German Shepherd dog
in human clothes. Lovely vintage full page color Simoniz
floor wax ad with children painting.
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Life
Magazine June 9, 1958 : Cover - Veteran
in Nazi prison cloak marches in Paris - Andre Marchand.
Full page Vitalis hair tonic ad with lumberman Hal Gormin
in Louisiana. Multiple page Simmons mattress and sofa
ad that includes list of all the Simmons stores. Two
pages of neat photos of Nelson Stacy and his incredible
disintegrating car in the Langhorne Speedway stock car
race. Indianapolis 500 car race gets off to a tragic
and spectacular start, includes Ed Elisian, Dick Rathmann,
Pat O'Connor (who died) - great photos. Lovely two page
Revlon ad for Butterfly Pink fingernail polish and lipstick.
End of a search for unknown soldiers - random choices
from World War II and Korea join the World War I unknown
soldier at Arlington.. Recession and you - Part 2. B-52
jet bomber on training mission, includes pilot Winston
Moore, copilot Leonard Culbertson, Arthur Lehrman, Gilbert
D'Andrea, Raymond Finkelstein, EArl Redelsperger.. Full
page Western Union ad with baseball game and Hires Rootbeer.
Great full page color Jantzen swimsuit ad. Seashore
fashions. De Gaulle and drama in France. MacMillans
of Sussex and Indiana. Antarctic boy scout - Richard
Chappell does fine with IGY. Afro and Mirko teach art.
Mademoiselle Noelle Adam. Gospel singing, doomsday preaching
religious sects of Christianity. Very nice full page
color Mobil oil ad with Jimmy Bryan, race car driver.
A prom that went on and on, Mariemont Hight School near
Cincinnati. Full page color Calvert Whiskey ad with
studly scuba divers. Great photo of window washer doing
a real buildering (climbing) move..
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Life
Magazine June 16, 1958 : Cover - Kids - a
built in recession cure. Full page B&W Argus camera
ad. Russian cartoonists Vitalii Goriaev and Ivan Semeonov
tour the US and draw humorous comics. Excellent full
page Argus camera ad. Democratic attorney general Edmund
G. Brown profile. Full page color Simoniz Vista car
wax featuring Corvette. Tim Tam wins the Kentucky Derby
and Preaknesss but loses the Belmont. Pacifists try
again to sail the "Golden Rule" yacht to Eniwetok
atoll to stop atomic tests - this time they are thrown
in jail, Albert Smith Bigelow and others. Samuel Cardinal
Stritch - Archbishop of Chicago obituary. Fabulous food
of the Fabled Restaurants - Hotel de la Cote-d Or, Tour
d' Argent, Baumaniere, Pyramide, and Pappagallo photos
by Eliot Elisofon. Hollywood starlets in the bath tub
- Sandra Giles, Olivia de Havilland, Ava Gardner, Joanne
Woodward, Lana Turner, Ann Sheridan, Jane Russell, Paulette
Goddard. China embargo stops Panda Chi Chi from coming
to the US. Recession remedy lies in rocketing birth
rate. Part III of the Constitution - One Supreme Court.
Full page color Edsel ad. Richard Burton throws a cast
party for Time Remembered with an Hawaiian theme. Full
page color Coca-Cola ad with the Matterhorn mountain
and Swiss scene.
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 Life
Magazine June 23, 1958 : Cover - Hempstead
seniors see their new yearbook. Full page color Gigi
movie ad starring Leslie caron and Marice Chevalier.
Full page color Post toasties Corn Flakes cereal ad
with more charming art by Dick Sargent. Sherman Adams
in scandal for accepting gifts, vicuna coat and oriental
rug. Ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald is launched - great
photo. Tommy Bolt wins the US Open golf tournament.
Greeks and Turks fight over Cyprus leadership. Tom Wonnacott
from Princeton spends four days in an isolation chamber.
Heat pump keeps houses cool and hot. Two page color
Budweiser ad for six packs. Alfred Hitchcock makes Vertigo
with James Steward and Kim Novak. Across the continent
by canoe - Bengt Soderstrom, Ed Vestal, Jerry Hewey
and Earl Rickers a great adventure and nice photos.
Super quiz star Elfrida con Nardroff makes $250,000
on quiz show Twenty-One. Golden years at Hempstead High
- class of 1958 - Willam D. Beddow, Alfred Windt, Judy
Krug, Louis Zara, Robert Hayes, Helen Ignelzi, Daniel
Beckett, Mary Church, Eileen Seale, Butch Lopez. Stubenville
Ohio benefits from foreign trade by Roy Rowan and George
Bookman - Joseph M. Wells, Myron Wyant, Ralph Nossett,
Robert Aldrich. The Puffin (bird). Full page color ad
Keystone movie cameras. Sophia Loren tours New York.
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Magazine June 30, 1958 : Cover - Adams and
Ike the GOP fights to regain prestige. Full page color
Sweetheart soap with woman bathing at the beach, Ok
a mostly naked woman standing in a tub. June bride Marcella
Lapow. Two page full color Kellogg's Corn Flakes. Soviets
execute Freedom Fighters from Hungary - Impre Nagy and
Pal Maleter. Brigitte Bardot - photo gallery. The aftermath
of riot in Cyprus. Ed Kurczewski has a great job testing
out a new jet device called the "Grasshopper."
Crazy photo of race boat driver Bill Cantrell clinging
to the tail fin of his boat in a race. Nice full page
color Mobiloil ad with surfing theme. Full page orange
and blue Post Bran Flakes cereal ad with art by Dick
Sargent. The wonders of life on Earth a new series explores
Darwin's world of nature by Sir Julian Huxley with photos
by Mark Kauffman. Profile of Purple People Eater artist,
Sheb Wooley. Boy goes blind after operation, Mike Sibole.
Fashion - Muslim robes with a twist, for the beach by
Tommy Hendler and Patty Peyton. Baseball rookie Orlando
Cepeda. Yellowstone employs 2,200 college students to
take care of visitors, includes funny photo of Anne
Hamlin.
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Life Magazine July
7, 1958 : Cover - Lebanese rebels in Beirut.
Full page color Ethly gasoline ad with vacation theme.
New US flag designs to show new states Alaska and Hawaii.
Full page color Seven-Up ad. Shah of Iran (Mohammed
Reza Pahlevi) tours the world looking for a bride -
Ellen Forseth, Nina Richards, Mara Baumgartner. Covent
Garden Royal Opera house has 100th birthday with a performance
by Maria Callas, Margot Fonteyn and Enrico Caruso. Jim
Earp runs for Sheriff in Wichita Kansas. Show of Soviet
horses from Kazakhstan. Herb Elliot and coach Percy
Cerutty train together for running races. Full page
color Beech-Nut gum ad with kids as Martians. 10 page
display of Charles Johnson Post art from the Cuban Campaign
with Theodore Roosevelt. New show in New York - International
Holiday of Love in the Latin Quarter. Cary Grant and
Ingrid Bergman in the new movie Indiscreet. 38,000 people
a year are killed in highway traffic accidents. New
car safety designs like seatbelts, folding steering
wheels, safety seats and Walter Jerome's jointed car.
Jack Dalrymple and Mrs. Jack Larmer attend a Ft. Worth
party. John John Ordway puts his head in a puddle -
photo (see also LIFE July 28, 1958).
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Life Magazine July
14, 1958 : Cover - Best Wheat in a Lifetime from
Oklahoma. Mackinac Bridge connects Michigan parts over
Lake Huron and Lake Michigan. Full page color Best Foods
mayonnaise ad with recipe for curious salad involving
pears, tomatoes, cottage cheese and mayonnaise. Captives
in Cuba photos by George Skadding. Alaska the last great
US frontier - Bill O'Neill, Jim Beaver, Don Sheldon,
Mike Stepovich, Bob Atwood, Rob Reeve. High hopes for
Hawaii - prepares to be the 50th state. Sherman Adams
and Tex McCrary go to Washington. Baby Walrus is captured
in Bering Sea and moved to Coney Island. Full page color
Philco TV ad. William King a young wood sculptor makes
human figures. Shari Lewis and her puppets entertain
us on Saturday TV. The Vikings a movie showing the battle
between the English and the Vikings has Kirk Douglas
and Tony Curtis, great color photos. Maurice Couve de
Murville is Charles de Gaulle's new aid. Horserace photos
- Hal's Boy bites Alice Belle and causes a crash. Blasting
makes the St. Lawrence seaway more open - before and
after photos. Science nears a goal: a Bank of Vital
Organs by Leonard Engel. Fire ant plague spreads in
the south - Alabama and Georgia. Brazil's president
Juscelino Kubitschel de Oliveira dedicates new city
as capital. Back cover - ad for Coke with sailing theme.
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Life
Magazine July 21, 1958 : Color cover - Roy
Campanella (baseball) sits up and smiles (strange old
head and neck brace - Stryker frame). Campy on comeback
road - exclusive pictures reveal intimate details of
Great fight for recovery. Very pretty full page green,
yellow and red Kellogg's Corn Flakes cereal ad. Full
page Union Oil Company ad with Bill Butler, manager
of field operations. Really neat full page Bell Telephone
ad for their public pay telephones. Full page color
Pepsi-Cola ad with nice beach scene, art. Double page
Whirlpool gas appliances ad with really yellow kitchen,
cupboards and appliances. Photo of nine U.S. airmen
just released from Armenia, includes Bennie Shupe. Neat
climbing photo of rescue of John Sanders and William
Garner from a Colorado canyon, I bet it was the Black
Canyon of the Gunnison. Lebanon's weird war - bombings
and bikinis. Inside rebel Cuba with Raul Castro (Fidel's
brother). Cutting thistles in Canada. Record throng
of U.S. campers are roughing it with conveniences. You,
too, can own a race horse - humor. Strange romantic
ritual born in war at sea. Successful re-entry of missile's
nose. Nadia Boulanger, the famous teacher of musicians.
Lions 41st annual convention in Chicago. The FIVE BILLIONTH
copy of LIFE magazine is printed, circulation is currently
over 6,000,000.
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Life
Magazine July 28, 1958 : Cover - Marines
move into Lebanon (lots of photos in feature article
inside). Princess Margaret attends British Columbia
centenary. Al Umma, Al Uruba. Photo essay - Lourdes
100th. Some charming photos of Basset Hound named Joadie.
Short letter and photos of John John Ordway (see also
LIFE July 7, 1958). Photo essay - five views of a marriage
from the members of the wedding : Gale Coffin of Roslyn,
Long Island marries Charles Gage Jr. of Minneapolis.
Detroit may make small cars, George Romney (see also
article in LIFE March 24, 1958). Close-up - John A.
McCone, new Atomic Energy Commission chairman. Yummy
full page color Jell-o ad with three different kinds
of Chiffon pie filling. Painting with plastic. Flying
Czech Miroslav Slovak takes aim on the top speedboat
trophy. US debs go to Versailles. Interesting article
written by Nuri Es Said (Iraqi Premier) about "The
Western World" just before he was killed for his
beliefs. Full page color Four Roses whiskey ad with
curious bicycle messenger or maybe he is a postman.
Very nice full page color Band-Aid ad. Another awesome
full page color Edsel ad, convertible with kids obviously
not wearing seat belts. Cute series of photos of new
bowler Carol Christensen. Neat distorted photo of John
Pojawa, Joanne Xerri and Linda Xerri. Full page color
L & M cigarettes ad with James Arness of Gunsmoke.
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Life Magazine August
4, 1958 : Cover - Modern war strategist General
James M Gavin. Khrushchev makes a bid for power in Moscow.
Mormon Trek in miniature - kids celebrate Utah settling,
Robert Maugham. French parade for Bastille day with
Charles de Gaulle. Movie "Proud Rebel" stars
a young David Ladd and Alan Ladd. Charming photos of
children of Claire Nicolas White, Stephanie White, Sebastian
White, Natalie White and poetry. Full page color Owens-Corning
Fiberglas ad with bowling theme. Baghdad, Iraq - Survivor
gives details of Savagery (sounds like the same news
we are hearing 50 years later). Gamal Abdel Nasser (United
Arab Republic) makes a big deal about how good it is
that Nuri has been murdered in Iraq. Update on troops
in Lebanon includes photo of William Winters with his
burro. Motorized British expedition across Antarctica
with Vivian Bunny Fuchs and Edmund Hillary - exclusive
interviews by Robert Manning, a fancy kind of snow cat.
Full page Eskimo Pie ad with great young Eskimo illustration.
Satellite Explorer IV heads into space. Photo of the
Diligenti quintuplets of Argentina. The best one yet,
full page color Post Toasties corn flakes ad with art
by Dick Sargent. Ladies take up Golf - Nancy Becker,
Pauline Rees, Josephine Mallozzi and Carmine Volpe.
Tragic Mistakes the undermine US Defense Preparation
by Lieut. General James M. Gavin. Gregory Peck and wife
Veronique take a ride on a roller coaster. Neat photo
of guys carrying a huge pane of glass.
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Life Magazine August
11, 1958 : Cover - Bonnie Trompeter, sailing
with Mike Witte. The US photography business booms,
includes photos of Paul Kemeny, Bill Noble, John Loughlin,
Lou Yates. Very colorful full page Du Pont ad for sweaters.
Orval Faubus political victory in South. Self-photos
of plotters in futile, fatal attack on Haiti, Danny
Jones, Arthur Payne, Levant Kersten, more. Election
brings an uneasy truce to Lebanon. Photo essay - Color
in Motion, part 1 by Ernest Haas. Photo essay - At 14,
Bonnie Trompeter is just discovering how fun it is going
to be as a pretty girl. 1965 space strategy and US defense.
US summer song and dance under tents, super photo of
Molly Mock. Sidney Poitier and Tony Curtis in “The
Defiant Ones.” Heavyweight challenger Roy Harris'
home town, Cut and Shoot, Texas. Cartoonist has fun
with feline puns. Plays and light operas in big tents.
Close-up - Gubernatorial candidate Rockefeller. Record
rally of Jehovah's Witnesses. Burton Holmes - speaker,
actor, funny man, a photo review of his life (he just
died at age 88). . Mrs. Nancy Dawson - witness. Nice
full page color Edsel car ad. Full page color ad for
Mobile Home Parks. Cute photo of boys with baseball
bat : Mike Quinn, and others in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
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Life
Magazine August 18, 1958 : Cover - Anne Frank
on page from her diary. What happened after end of Anne
Frank's diary - exclusive story tells of her tragedy.
Two page photo of people looking for golf balls in the
rough at Deauvill in the French Amateur Golf Tournament.
Dark and strange doings in the Teamsters' union, Jimmy
Hoffa, burned Frank Kierdorf, many named photos. The
Nautilus submarine and a polar epic under the ice cap,
Skipper William Anderson. Photo of Jordan's King Hussein
- caption asks "The next doomed Mideast leader?"
Full page color Kraft fudgies ad, these candies look
like caramel squares but they are chocolate and vanilla.
A faded summit, a spotlighted U.N. - plus the first
full story of a coup in Iraq that set off world crisis
- Regicide of King Faisal and his family. Four milers
(runners) break world mile record in one race, Herb
Elliott, Merv Lincoln, Ron Delany, Murray Halberg, Albert
Thomas was also under 4 minutes. Fuss over lack of feathers
in Las Vegas. The Minuteman - a mighty new solid fuel
missile, is about to revolutionize U.S. armament. Reason
for that labor law - Hoffa. Kids hero worship of Zorro
- photo essay. 10-million year-old Oreopithecus bones
found in Italian mine fill a gap in human evolution
studies. Laroche line in fashions. Neat artistic photo
of speeding race cars at the Indianapolis Speedway,
part of series of photos by Ernst Haas..
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Life Magazine August
25, 1958 : Cover - Janet Novinski (Capital Airlines)
and Marcia Egan (Pan American World Airways) - Air Hostesses
have a coveted career (feature inside). Tiffany's robbery
window draws attention from shoppers. Dramatic rise
for big construction - Mayor Louis Miriani, Charles
Blessing, Detroit. Very nice full page Buster Brown
kids shoes ad with nice art by Alex Ross. Glen Canyon
construction photos. Eisenhower and Gromyko make plans
for the Middle East. Great show of French Masters -
Edgar Degas, Cezanne, Edouard Manet, given to Cleveland
Museum by Leonard C. Hannah. The sad crash of KLM Royal
Dutch Airlines plane with 99 people into the Atlantic,
flight 607E. The Hutterites. Full page color Mobiloil
ad with father and son on carousel. Full page B&W
Ford Thunderbird ad. Freckles - why do they come Recollections
of a life with Eugene O'Neill by Agnes O'Neill. Eydie
and Steve Gorme are young TV stars. Full page color
Western Electric ad with Bell telephone technicians.
Great two page color spread of hostesses from 53 airlines
around the world. Rex Harrison and Kay Kendall in The
Constant Husband. Four yachts compete for the America's
Cup by Maitland Edey - Columbia, Easterner, Vim and
Weatherly. Full page color Ford Edsel ad at the Yacht
club. Maurice B Frank throws a debutante party for his
daughter Maurine and 200 other guests. Neat photo of
Hans Hubmann walking a tight rope from Black Star, rugged
mountain scene. Charming photo of puppy named Susan
drinking from umbrella drips, held by Stephen Williams.
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Life
Magazine September 1, 1958 : Color
cover - Commander Anderson and his "Nautilus"
submarine. Epic voyage of the Nautilus with color photos
by Commander Anderson (see also LIFE August 18, 1958).
A great full page color Post Grape-nuts flakes cereal
ad with hopscotch art by Dick Sargent. Quite an interesting
series of photos of GAry Cooper looking like someone
else. Beneath the North Pole by Paul O'Neil. Awesome
look of undersea warfare. Full page color Blue Bell
clothing ad with four different bicycles. The brothels,
gambling and more of Terre Haute, mayor Ralph Tucker.
Part of the big railroad causeway across the Great Salt
Lake in Utah collapses. Big bettors of U.S. hide as
they are called before federal Grand Jury (Terre Haute,
Indiana). Little Rock's court cases. Hollywood executives
thwart the marriage of two young actors - Andra Martin
and Ty Hardin. Big Henry Harris watches his son lose
to Patterson in the boxing ring. Latest fall fashions.
Birthday party for Mary Roebling. Missiles launched
from a submarine, Polaris. Article on high fashion with
hometown girls posing - Cynthia Davis, Sharon Hamblin,
Liz Skuster, Kay Patterson, Marty Moyer, Pat Raley,
Jean Davis, Ellen Cooper, Robert Montgomery, Helen Harrington.
Great full page color Coca-Cola ad with two older ladies
in a fancy yellow convertible, art by Hughes.
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Life Magazine
September 8, 1958 : Cover - Galapagos Tortoise.
Full page color Mennen ad with really pregnant lady
in dress that emphasizes the pregnancy. Country goes
crazy for Hula Hoops - Sue Kiley, Dick Fenton, Ellen
Ilfeld, Jim Riley, Wally Conrad, Roberta Moutal. Neat
full page Philco ad with first swivel screen television,
it is also an oval screen, not square. Brigitte Bardot
in Brigitte. Neat series of photos of Jack Wylie water
ski-kiting through the State STreet drawbridge and more,
Chicago. Neat full page movie poster ad for "Cat
on a hot tin roof" with Elizabeth Taylor, Paul
Newman, Burl Ives and others. Cute full page Wizard
paint ad with two nice men painting around a bird nest.
Photo of a luck plane crash on take-off from Minneapolis.
Darwin and the HMS Beagle visit the Galapagos Islands
- great photos and even better drawings. S. L. Jacobowsky,
comedian profile. Alex Karras - a Detroit Lions football
rookie, a big guy missing a lot of teeth. Camp for mentally
ill children, Rhinebeck, New York, Ramapo-Anchorage.
Neat full page color Wood coats ad with three little
girls roller skating. Admiral Hyman Rickover - profile
by Robert Wallace. Sherman Adams and Nancy Morris wedding.
L&M Cigarettes ad featuring Gunsmoke stars Amanda
Blake and Jim Arness.
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Magazine September 15, 1958 : Cover - Quartet
of Bing Crosby's boys, Dennis, Lindsay, Gary and Phillip
Crosby. Neat full page color Boeing 707 and 720 ad showing
outside and inside of plane including meal service.
Chinese Communists impose a blockade on Quemoy, they
also shelled the clearly marked Red Cross hospital.
Race riots in Britain, negro migrants. In the U.S. Integration
goes on, but with some ugly incidents. Great trek by
DeGaulle to Africa. Miss Mississippi, Mary Ann Mobley,
is now Miss America. Elizabeth Taylor in "Cat on
a Hot Tin Roof." Nice full page color Del Monte
Pineapple ad with the five different pineapple products
they offer. Cute little sequel to the three Nyvall girls
on the telephone, LIFE April 2, 1956. Beautiful full
page color Dorothy Grack lipstick ad with metallic looking
candy apple. Livable homes - photo essay, inside, outside,
floor plans. Excellent full page Miller High Life beer
ad with beautiful art similar to stippling, man playing
chess, sorry can't read the artist name. Peoples' Stock
Market by Ernest Havemann. Big fuss over TV quiz shows.
Close-up - Edith Hamilton, scholar of Greek history.
Nice full page Robt. Burns Cigarillos ad with couple
on scooter motorbike. Cadets move to new Air Force Academy
in Colorado Springs, includes Charles Georgi, Bob Fay,
Kirk Canterbury, others.
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Life
Magazine September 22, 1958 : Cover - Gracie
Allen and George Burns, Gracie retires. Nixon family
in their backyard - rare photos. Harriman and Rockefeller
race in New York by Theodore White. Full page Sweet
Heart soap ad in color, the mostly naked lady in a tub
again. Full page General Electric light bulbs ad with
cute couple art by Frederick Siebel. Neat full page
Hiram Walker Imperial whiskey ad with one of those teeny
cars, I think it has only three wheels. Full page color
Hertz rent-a-car ad with Tennis player Jack Kramer.
Boy in a murder enigma - 8-year-old Melvin Nimer may
have murdered parents, Staten Island, New York. Dabney
vs. Dabbs on integration - the justices stand firm on
integration, desegregation. Photo of Angie Evans, student
body president, speaking against segregationists. Voters'
choice of millionaires. Bright tights give dizzy-looking
legs to college girls. Convoy to Quemoy. Neat photo
of the special training of a three horse team owned
by Cyrus Eaton and given to him by Nikita Khrushchev.
Debbie Reynolds, Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor. Virginia
opposes all integration of schools. Nice full page color
Manischewitz Fruit Wines ad. Livable homes, part 2,
more home plans. The conference on peaceful uses of
Atomic Energy held in Geneva, Switzerland. Salt Lake
City youngsters enjoy soda debauch, includes Russell
Curtis, Trosper's Corner Drug store. No doubt - photographic
proof of crash between car and rhinoceros.
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Life Magazine September
29, 1958 : Cover - gunfight in "The Big
County" TV show (feature inside, Gregory Peck,
Charlton Heston, Jean Simmons, Burl Ives, Charles Bickford).
Vic Tanney health centers - profile. Full page color
Scott toilet tissue ad with soft pink couture. Full
page Vitalis hair tonic ad with fisherman Bill Flick.
Very nice full page color Seagram's VO whiskey ad with
baseball art. America's Cup boat races (big feature)
. Algerians face a tough choice stay with France for
guaranteed freedom or go it alone without economic aid.
Jersey commuter train's fatal route and grim wreckage,
Newark bay, at least 47 died, derailed by automatic
device. Full page color Swanson frozen meat pies ad.
Kids in south are out of school due to controversies
with desegregation. Last second photos of British Sea
Hawk fighter plane before it crashed at England's Farnborough
Air Display. Full page ad or S.O.S. scouring pads with
angelic art by Hoff. Palestinian refugees. Homes that
achieve the most in livability - Part 3 of More Livable
Homes, includes home of Joseph D. Dudley family in Sarasota,
Florida, Dr. Courtney Townsend of Paris, Texas, Richard
Beattie of Rye, New York, Martin L. Gleich of San Diego,
Richard O. Pollard of Belvedere, California. Two page
color ad for the Port Charlotte, Florida development.
Health kick - exercising. Gene Tierney, over a four
year illness, is back. George Weiss shapes New York
Yankees baseball players and team. Peacetime atomic
lab, Brookhaven Laboratory.
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Life
Magazine October 6, 1958 : Cover - Broadway's
Suzie Wong - France Nuyen. Two page color 1959 Cadillac
d with the Fleetwood, Eldorado Biarritz and Sixty Two
Coupe. Early White House Photos - Billy Sunday, Frances
Folsom, Old Jerry Smith, Taft's tub built specially
to hold his 300 pound frame and Roosevelt children.
Lucille Ball and Dezi Arnaz form Desilu Production Studio
in Hollywood by Leonard McCombe - great family photos.
Poet Robert Service obituary. Scots dancers perform
traditional Highland Fling in Philadelphia. Harry Golden
best seller Only in America profile. Yale football players
practice a fake punts. Full page color Sealtest Ice
Cream ad featuring Swiss style Choc-o-nut. Farewell
to Elvis - Kathy Maloney, Lillian Portney. More Livable
Homes Part IV - more space upstairs and down - houses
designed by Harry Weese and Pietro Belluschi. Marie
Louise Nyam a Swedish Countess and fashion designers.
Using hormones to fight insect pests. Salt Lake City
teacher Andre Anastasion teaches Russian. Scepte looses
the Americas Cup to Columbia by Maitland Edey. Hemingways'
Old Man and the Sea is a movie with Spencer Tracy. Colleges
are ready for the class of 1958 by Henry M Wriston.
A Medici by Cellini rediscovered by Dr. Walter Heil.
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rolled spine, water marked edges) - $5
Life Magazine October
13, 1958 : Color cover - Field Marshal the Viscount
Montgomery of Alamein, K.G. Monty's outspoken story
- triumphs, blunders of World War II. Neat full page
General Electric television with interesting cabinet-inspired
colored cases, such as turquoise. Nice full page Red
Cross Shoes ad with lots of shoes in different colors.
Full page color Puss'n Boots cat food ad with cat and
kitten and cat bed. Bittersweet world of growing up,
includes Jeanette, David, Dana and Peter Miller, children
of Wayne and Joan Miller, Orinda, California. Full page
Champion spark plugs ad with photo of Sikorsky HO 4S-3G
helicopter in the middle of an air-sea rescue in Long
Island Sound. Quemoy civilians. New York Yankees suffer
a first inning that sets a baseball World Series records.
De Gaulle goes to work on Algeria. French Guinea is
apparently the only country (French Territory) to reject
De Gaulle's offer and go independent - they would prefer
a "Poverty in Liberty" over "Riches in
Slavery." A pretty girl surmounts the problem of
being too pretty - Joan Marchesani with Pan American
World Airways. Maya metropolis of Tikal uncovered in
Guatemala - photo essay. West Point has never known
the equal of Pete Dawkins. Air Force researcher proves
men can train bodies to work well in make-believe space,
Dr. Bruno Balke and Samuel G. Karst, high altitude studies.
New team takes over at General Motors. A full page color
Brach's candy ad with chocolate so luscious you want
to eat the page.
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G - $17
Life Magazine October
20, 1958 : Cover - Mrs. Eisenhower at North Portico.
Full page color Brach's Halloween Candy. Submarine Skate
at the North Pole with dead Polar Bear and Lieut. William
Cowhill. Village and World pray for Pope Pius XII -
photo story of the death of a pope. Missile launch goes
to 79,000 feet with moon exploration package aboard.
Racists bomb school in Clinton Tennessee to stop integration.
Judge Potter Stewart is appointed to Supreme Court.
Pitcher Whitey Ford decorates fans and players faces
with black soot from Champagne corks. Two page B&W
Borg-Warner ad featuring Ripley's Believe it or Not.
Fred Astaire pairs with Barrie Chase and Ginger Rogers
dances with Ray Bolger for TV. Four page color 1959
Dodge ad with Swing Out Seats and New Level-Flite Torsion-Aire.
Old elegance at old Nassau - Princeton University students
use a horse and buggy - Eric Grinnell. Photos of the
Mrs Eisenhower at home photos by Edward Clark. Five
generations of Rin Tin Tin with Lee Duncan. Montgomery
Memoirs part II - Great battles and historic wrangles.
Full page B&W Vitalis ad with mountain climber Walter
Prager. Fashion models wear small hair pieces for extra
style - empire curls, top pouff by Walter Florell. Wonder
boy Larry Rivers has many talents. Full page color Boeing
707 and 720 ad. Photo story Gina Lollobrigida and her
son Milko play in Paris. Della Forrester and Silas Underwood
celebrate 60 wedded years with governor Cecil Underwood.
Football fever at Notre Dame and Army pep rallies. The
papacy's awesome task by Emmet John Hughes - photos
of potential new popes. According to a friend, this
issue contains an unlabeled photo of fashion model Iby,
Ibolya Korody.
VG - $27
G - $17
Life Magazine October
27, 1958 : Cover - College of Cardinals in St.
Peters. 1959 cars are glassier and finnier. Political
map of the US, what states are going to vote for which
candidates in 1959 - campaign special section. Burying
Pius XII and electing a new pope - color photo story.
Violent anti-semitism rally in Chattanooga - Richard
and Robert Bowling are arrested. Aaron Burgett attempts
a swim escape from Alcatraz. Hudson river sail of the
Santa Paula. Wayne Powers US army deserter lives in
France and hides under the stairs for 13 years. Full
page color 1959 Desoto ad. Saudi Prince Mashhur visits
the US and Eisenhower for medial treatment for cerebral
palsy. Montgomery Memoirs Part III - by Field Marshal
Viscount Montgomery of Alamein. Nina Leen photo gallery
of happy home life in the US. MOMA museum opens again
with new remodel and new art collections. Elephant lovers
Morel, Darryl Zanuck and John Huston make Roots of Heaven.
Real monkey fur from African Gold Coast is used in fashion
from Capucci, Badger skin used in design by Scaasi.
Pioneer rocket failure teaches lots of lessons about
going into space. Russian writer Boris Pasternak on
his farm near Moscow. St. Louis host the Veiled Prophet
ball - Samuel Lortz.
VG - $27
G - $17
F (All G, nice, but has water marked corner tip)-
$7
 Life
Magazine November 3, 1958 : Cover - Aga Khan
at Harvard, Karim the fourth Aga Khan, spiritual leader
of the Muslim Ismaili's (feature article inside). Two
page color Chrysler ad with New Yorker 4 door car in
a curious pink-lilac color named Light Ruby. New sculptures
found in Africa - great photos. Sexy full page color
Revlon make-up ad. 1959 class of Norfolk - schools are
closed due to integration issues, lots of photos of
different schools and students, includes Liz Hollenberg,
Genie Johnson, Peggy Ann Reinhart, Sammie Dean Parker,
Ann Sugent, many others. Cardinal meet to chose a replacement
pope for Pius XII. Mine rescuers (Draegermen) await
a rescue in Springhill, Nova Scotia - Cumberland Pit
Number 2. India builds a new Dam at Bhakra in the Himalayas
design by Harvey Slocum. Florida game commission drops
turkeys to repopulate hunting areas around Tampa, includes
photo of the FGC airplane. Amazing photos and art of
Insects - Darwin's World of Nature Part II by Lincoln
Barnett. Two page color Ford Ranchero ad. Gloria Gibbs
shows off her Hula Hoop skills in the Hula Hoop Song.
Maigret author Georges Simenon has written over 400
books. Hypnosis becomes a medical treatment of note
with David Cheek. Hypnosis makes a no pain childbirth
delivery and other medical applications. Geisha Boy
movie with Nobu McCarthy. Vladimir Janovek talks to
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