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Life Magazine
January 6, 1961 : Cover - Fold-out painting by
C.E. Monroe Jr., Cavalry charge at Brandy station. The
Civil War, part 1 of a 6 parts series : Part 1 - Deeds
of glory, illustrations by Glanzmann, Meltzoff, Monroe,
Riley, Sickles, Barnett, and Lovell. First flamingo
chick at the San Diego Zoo. Tanker ship Pine Ridge and
John Richart, the ship broke apart at seas, Richart's
story. Supercarrier Constellation burns at Brooklyn
Navy Yard. Photo essay - Kennedy's cabinet appointees.
King Baudouin takes Fabiola as his queen, Belgium, glamorous
color photos. Hector the astro-rat scheduled for launch
from France, photo in his spring-loaded spacesuit. Soprano
Eileen Farrell at the Met. Weight loss seekers turn
to mechanized home gadgets and liquid diets. Really
wild full page color Mercury ad with red Meteor car.
Close-up of " The Big Eleven," Kennedy's cabinet
at home, includes photo of Defense Secretary Robert
McNamara walking to ski tow at Aspen, Colorado with
his ski gear. Full page color ad for new Handi-Wrap
clear wrap instead of wax paper.
F (Generally VG, but
cover is rough in places) - $10 
Life Magazine
January 13, 1961 : Cover - Clark
Gable's last film, big image of Gable's face in a cowboy
hat. Old friendship with Cuba packed up to go, includes great
photo of truck piled high with luggage outside US Embassy
in Havana and story of two LIFE employees, Paul Schutzer
and Norman Ritter getting jailed. Mess in Laos. Illuminated
manuscripts command big prices at Sotheby's in London. Neat
full-page color Chrysler Newport 1961 with skiers. Adenauer
celebrates his 85th birthday. Foot solders - photo essay,
including photos of Frank Whitehead, Ira Jones, John White,
Charles Hyatt, and others. U.S. newlyweds on Nobel honeymoon,
Donald Glaser and Bonnie Thompson. Pancho Segura - tennis.
Saturn rockets. Radcliffe's President Mary Bunting crusades
for better use of the educated woman. Sir Edmund Hillary's
evidence exposes the abominable snowman (yeti) as a myth.
Very funny midair sledding picture, Barbara Bonifas and Sue
Shumaker in Lima, Ohio. Colorful two page Del Monte Pineapple
Sun Fest ad. Photo of John Kennedy in crowd at Orange Bowl
football game. Nice two page color Chevrolet ad with blue
Impala car on country bridge, and other cars. Series of photos
of Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe in" The Misfits." Photo
of 6 year-old Marilyn Davis at the New York City Ballet.
Unusual two page color Pontiac ad with red Bonneville
convertible car. Ziggy the swan, Ronald Lewis. St. Tropex
fashions.
G - $20
Life Magazine
January 20, 1961 : Cover - A surgeon pits his
skill against cancer, feature article, doctor name has
been been changed to " Matthews" for the story,
photos by Elliott Erwitt. Pictorial essay - Civil War,
Part 2 - The great battles in paintings by LIFE artists
(see also January 6 1961). Touring Russian gymnasts
in the US, Muriel Grossfeld, Larisa Latynina. Absolutely
super gorgeous full page color Cadillac ad with green
Coupe de Ville. Actors for "Swiss Family Robinson" have
great time on Tobago. The Jackie look - first lady sets
a new national style, including Jackie look-alike models
Jeani Kitchens, Joanne Hilem, Dorothea McCarthy, and
Eugenia McLin. Oleg Cassini is designer to the First
Lady. Prank, riot and shock on Georgia campus. Big league
spy case in Britain, " The Five" . A club rebuked
for bigotry, Scarsdale Golf Club, New York suburb. Cute
Life Savers candy ad with candies in the shape of a
fish. Funny photo of Philip Laffin in Ellsworth, Maine
getting his mail delivered to his teeth like a dog with
a newspaper. Disney makes a movie of " The Swiss
Family Robinson." Cute full -age Falcon car ad
with football theme. Back cover Coca-cola ad with ice
skaters.
G - $15
Life Magazine January
27, 1961 : Cover - The Kennedy inauguration,
fifteen pages of photos and summaries and the text of
his speech. Freakish jet crash - DC-8 Aeronaves de Mexico,
crashes outside New York International. Full page Walker's
DeLuxe bourbon ad with ice boater racing on Greenwood
Lake. Help too late for Texas Tower 4, nine repairmen
die, Samuel Buccheri, Henry Schutz, Vincent Brown, David
Abbott, Edward T. Robertson, Vincent Yavrosky, Raymond
Martel, William Ide, Aram Haroutunian. Full page color
Four Roses Whiskey ad with men on the deck of ski lodge,
lift in the background. Photo essay by Carl Mydans -
Harsh magic of Moscow winter, ten pages in color. Photo
essay - Actress Ann-Margret Olson makes her big screen
test. Ivan Pasternak's love Olga Ivinskaya sentenced
to forced labor in Soviet camp for her association with
deceased author of " Dr. Zhivago." Astronauts
exclusive report, Part 7 by John Glenn. Lucky number
contest lures depositors in a Glendale California savings
bank, Minnie Robirds, Brent Givens, Domenic Di Franco.
Durrell reunion at the family zoo, British writing clan.
Two page Zenith TV ad with image of Red Skelton on " screen."
Very attractive full page color Smirnoff ad with lady
on tropical isle at sunset.
VG - $25
Life Magazine February
3, 1961 : Cover - Queen Elizabeth in India on a painted
and bejeweled elephant, grandeur and good times on Queen's
tour. Inside cover full page color S&H Green Stamps ad with
two women at the grocery store. " Little man" Fred Norman
makes leaping basketball shots at Miami Jackson Senior High,
with the help of
a trampoline. Seizure of Santa Maria, captured by modern
day pirates in the Atlantic, story by crew member Carlos
de Carvalho. Greetings for RB-47 fliers who had been held
as " spies" in Moscow, Freeman Bruce Olmstead and John McKone.
Civil war, Part 3 - the soldier's life, with illustrations
and period photos. Playwright Tennessee Williams writes fiery
heroines portrayed by actresses Anna Magnani, Vivien Leigh,
Geraldine Page, Katharine Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor. A new
and mighty mortar may bring about a great change in masonry,
uses epoxy. British cartoonist pokes gentle fun at a group
of monks, Phelix (Hugh Barnett). Doll-like hats for grown-up
dolls. Sixteen bachelors and date no. 1,176 have lunch at
a San Francisco club, Judie Collier. Outrageous full page
color Maidenform bra ad with woman in cape in boxing ring.
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Life Magazine February
10, 1961 : Cover - Chimp back from space. Ham,
the first astrochimp. Mercury, Samos, Minuteman, a great
triple play in US space race. The training of the astrochimps.
Fabulous cruise of the Santa Maria and what happened
aboard (see also February 3, 1961), story by passenger
Nat Logan-Smith. Half page Ford Flacon ad with Charlie
Brown and Linus cartoon by Schultz. The "sell America"
bill. Photo essay by Howard Sochurek- Jet speed and
congestion multiply dangers in crowded air so safety
must be achieved, hazards of modern aviation, air safety,
air traffic control. Cuisenaire rods teach math concepts
to young students at New York's New Lincoln School,
Lisa Tern, Susan Goldman, Wendy Lawrence, Sally Ginsberg.
Phil Silvers in " Do Re Mi" . Photo essay -
Dillinghams of Hawaii. New Alateen groups help teenagers
face up to life with alcoholic parents, AA. Increasing
popularity of sailboat racing, including photos of Jim
Van Voost and David Hanafourde in Biscayne Bay, Florida.
Leontyne Price makes a thrilling debut at Met. Glenn
Ford and Maria Schell in " Cimarron" . Simple
cartoon-style full page Tea Council ad " when you
feel you've been through the wringer" .
F (Generally VG, but cover is missing a large
blank corner, second page has a tear) - $10
 Life Magazine February 17, 1961 : Cover - Shirley
McClain in a dual role of My Geisha, many photos of
her learning to be Geisha at Gion school in Kyoto. Harvest
of anarchy in the Congo, war, disease, famine. Crazy
winter photos, falling policeman John Ellen, Amish farmers
shovel snow. Lady doctor in the white house, Dr. Janet
Travell. Full page Cadillac 62 coupe ad. Photographer
Michael Peirce takes pictures of children watching TV.
Starved Rock, Illinois triple murder suspect Chester
Weger, investigators Bill Dummett and Wayne Hess. Art
Linkletter in " People are Funny" and " The
Bible Man" . Two page color International Trucks
ad, pickup and wagon. Carol Christensen is dressed by
Mobot the robot. Zero Mostel in Rhinoceros. Civil War
part IV - General James M. Gavin. Civil War weapons
that caused a change, many period photos and diagrams
of weapons and transportation. Brought to book for crime
- library detective Harold Roth. Kennedy's best men
move into power - Robert S. McNamara, Dean Rusk, Adlai
E. Stevenson. Ad color for Northern Snow White Tissue.
Full page color Baby Ruth ad. Albert and Anne Burke
live like millionaires for eight days.
G - $20
Life Magazine February
24, 1961 : Cover - Embattled Dag Hammarskjold.
United Nations faces gravest crisis. Lumumba's legacy
in Congo. Laurence Owen dies in plane crash that kills
US team, all 17 members of the figure skating team die.
Cute full page Commercial Banks of the US ad with small
boy trying on his father's tie and looking in mirror.
In new fad, Canadian college students push beds around
for exercise - bed races. Electric company scandals.
" The Octoroon" at the Phoenix Theatre. Spring
jackets of artificial flowers. Photo essay - the Southwest,
Acoma Pueblo, San Xavier del Bac, Superstition Mountains,
Mrs. James Macia and Fred Bennett in Tombstone, Petrified
Forest, Mark Zoppel and sisters at Death Valley dunes,
Marineland, Las Vegas. Ohio State's basketball big year
for Jerry Lucas. Photo essay - Dog show biz, family
dog entered in Westminster for fun. Maya pottery brought
up from Guatemalan lakes by divers under direction of
Stephan de Borhegyi of Milwaukee Public Museum. A Jew's
15 year search for Adolf Eichmann, Tuviah Friedman.
Spring Jackets with flowers. Jerry Lucas leads Ohio
State basketball. Harold DeGarro housepainting on stilts
in Los Angeles. Full page color BMC (British Motor Car)
ad with skiers at Sugarbush Valley, Vermont.
VG - $20
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Life Magazine
March 3, 1961 : Cover - Glenn, Grissom
and Shepard first astronauts. Feature article about
the Redstone launch team by Loudon Wainwright, photos
by Ralph Morse. Interesting two-page timeline of Russian
and US space projects. Great two page color photo of
Jerry Lews on the camera boom in front of lavish 3-story
set for his movie " The Ladies' Man." Two page
color International Travelall ad, " family room
on wheels." Full page color Ford Comet ad with
skiers on slope illustration by B. Peak. Debut of the
S.S. Oriana, biggest passenger ship to sail the Pacific,
Captain Clifford Edgecombe. Homework - as families endure
it, educators debate it, photo essay by Robert W Kelley,
Robert and Mary Riesenmy family of St. Louis. Spring
Paris fashions photos by Mark Shaw. Ingrid Bergman on
TV and Movies. Belgian led army props up Congo's Katanga's
Tshombe. De Gaulle stretches 180 feet tall in a Paris
painting. Making the tax mess worse, Civil War Part
5, Gaiety and dread on the home front, by Margaret Leech.
Great photos of Civil War currency, sheet music covers,
book pages, Valentines(!). Computers outdo man at his
work now - and soon may outthink him, Dr. Everett Yowell,
John M. Riley, Albert I. Schott, Gloria Kaiser, Eric
Murphy at National Cash Register Data Processing Center
in New York. S.S. Oriana makes her maiden voyage. Full
page color Lucky Strike cigarettes ad with two skiers
awaiting start of ski race. Full page color Canadian
Club whiskey ad with snorkeling and scuba diving scene
with giant clam, George Leavens.
VG - $48
Life Magazine
March 10, 1961 : Cover - Maurice Chevalier and
Bing Crosby, two old pros. Anguish of men without work,
most photos taken around Johnstown, Pennsylvania - John
Spaid, Steve Alexander, Jonathan Kimback. " Jack jumping"
at Big Bromley Mountain in Manchester, Vermont, lift operators
leave work on boards attached as seats to sawed-off skis,
Earl Jones. Nice two page Chevy Corvair ad with car in
a snowstorm on a back road, rally racing theme. Photo
essay - microelectronics. Photo essay - horsey hideaway
for Kennedys' - Glen Ora. The US and the United Nations.
Patterson and Johansson prepare for the big fight in Miami,
boxing. Golden glow for the home, far-out photo of woman
in gold lame against still life of gilt home furnishings.
Metropolitan Museum's Etruscan treasures turn out to be
fakes, forger Fioravanti. Rhododendrons, four pages of
color photos of lavish plants. Zebra "Ribbons"
is a cow pony. Kennedy estate at Glen Ora. Pee Wee Hockey,
Michael Mitchell, Jim Keech of Ottawa and Richard Boyer,
Philip Beaney, and Mark Amis of Lake Placid. Crosby and Chevalier
combine talents for TV special. Angela Lansbury and Joan
Plowright in " A Taste of Honey." Party in 30 room castle
in Tennessee, Paul Telthorster family. Full page Volkswagen
ad with four Beetles stacked on each other to demonstrate
four coats of paint.
VG - $25
G - $15
Life Magazine March
17, 1961 : Cover - Sheila Finn. Peace Corps takes
fire in college with many photos of participants. Holy
Loch's unholy row, Scottish base. Pictorial essay -
Civil war, Part 6 - the great single event of our history.
Photo essay - Irish in America, part 1, including photos
of San Francisco hurling team, Catherin Hannon Kelly,
Hannora and Kathleen Deely, Ann Morris and others. The
President's voracious reading habits. Peace Corps catches
fire in colleges, Mike Fitzgerald at University of Missouri,
Mary McAuley at Occidental College in Los Angeles, Jim
Mitchell at Ohio State, Olympian Rafer Johnson, more.
Irradiated dummies help researchers improve cancer theory.
Comic triumphs of Bob Hope and Lucille Ball. Japanese
baseball team works out with the Dodgers. Great photo
of churchyard full of horse-and-buggy rigs as modern
Mennonites come to church in Waterloo, Ontario. Patricia
Morelli of Portland, Maine impresses Sperry with her
request for science fair models and gets a Polaris missile
for her schoolyard. Warm memories of Hull House, Chicago.
Ernie Ford goes back to Tennessee, a party. Cute photo
of Joseph Ennis with a squirrel on his shoulder, Adrian,
Michigan. Nice full page color Buick ad with Wildcat
convertible waiting at Thornwood train station, with
New York Central train. Full page Maytag ad with 1933
wedding photo of Mr. A. W. Bell of Vandergrift, Pennsylvania.
Suspicious spending of Pierre Larcher and Raymond Rolland
in Europe.
VG - $25
G - $15
Life Magazine March
24, 1961 : Cover - Baird puppets parody TV battle
that never happened, Paar vs. Sullivan. Cute full page
Band-Aid ad with smiling little girl, bottoms of her
bare feet completely covered by large bandages. Four
tough men climb the icy "Ogre" in Switzerland, mountain
climbers on the Eiger, Toni Hiebeler, Andreas Mannhardt,
Anton Kinshofer, Walter Almberger - first winter ascent.
Floyd - Ingo (Patterson - Johansson) fight, many photos.
Two page color General Motors ad, " there's nothing
like a new car for gayety." Small photo of Marilyn
Monroe at reunion for the Actors Studio. Full page color
Life Savers ad, five candies stacked up as math problem.
Photo essay - Queen Elizabeth and animals in Asia. Photo
essay - Heritage in need of help, new Nile dam will
submerge treasures, many dramatic color photos. Photo
essay - Irish in America, part 2, St. Patrick's Day
parade in New York, Harry M. Hynes, James A. Farley,
John T. Clancy, California Senator Eugene McAteer. Izumi
Yukimura, Japanese singer tours US. Eleanor Powell,
dancer. Sensible shoes in style. At 79, Picasso marries
his 35-year-old model. Full page color Libbey-Owens-Ford
glass ad with image of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church
in Columbus, Ohio.
G - $12
F (All G, but cover has a scuffed hole) - $5
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Life Magazine March
31, 1961 : Cover - Golden cherub. President Kennedy
takes decisive steps regarding Laos and freedom for
all.
Photo essay - Rococo church in Germany, 18th century church,
Zwiefalten, foldout image of a sculptured cherub and the
church interior and ceiling, fourteen-plus color pages. Full
page Quaker Oats ad for tickets to movie " Cimarron" in packages.
All about insurance, how to afford it. Small photo of Elizabeth
Taylor recuperating in London Clinic after pneumonia. Family
shares pool and trailer with Bengal tigers, Naumann family.
John Weitz, fashion designer. C.Y.O. cheerleaders in a contest,
Catholic Youth Organization, including photos of Barbara
Bleakley, girls from St. Helena's High School, girls from
Holy Name elementary, girls from Our Lady of Mt. Carmel,
Beth Ryan of Resurrection School in Rye New York. Two page
ad for Chrysler station wagon. Humorous photos of Texas senate
seat. Campaign Kitticat girls for Jim Wright. Official color
photographs of the President of the United States (JFK).
Full page color Northern tissue ad with one of the " four
little girls" illustrations..
VG - $20
G - $12
F (Reading copy, general extra wear) - $5
Life Magazine April
7, 1961 : Cover - Fold-out photo of men ocean-fishing
from boats, Harry Vernon off Biscayne Key, Florida.
Presidential rocking chair starts new nationwide craze,
great set of historical photos of noted rocking chair
aficionados including Mark Twain and Woodrow Willson.
Now she's on a tightrope above the city, dreaming again
about running around in only her bra, full page Maidenform
ad. SEATO talk tougher over Laos. Bacl cover Coca-Cola
ad with young couple under picnic table in the rain.
The Mohole, drilling through the earth's crust. We could
pass Russians in space with solid fuel boosters. Photo
essay - salt water anglers, William K. duPont Carpenter,
Mike Lerner, Gus Zarkades, Vlad Evanoff, Zane Grey.
Photo essay - Servant problem, part 1. Two missionary
women strive to teach Aucas, Elisabeth Elliot and Rachel
Saint. Lightweight styles. Walt Disney, the old pro
turns out some new movies, " The Absent-Minded Professor,"
" One Hundred and One Dalmatians," " The
Parent Trap" coming soon. Underwater anniversary
recalls an underwater marriage, Bob Smith and Mary Beth
Sanger (see March 8, 1954). Nightclubs, tropical humor.
Looking for a maid, Dorothy Fuller Englehaupt in Chicago.
Marines practice leaving a sinking copter at Camp Pendleton.
Close-up - the many sided life of Sir Charles Snow.Two
page color Revlon ad for new color, honey bee pink.
Neat fake volcano for movie, "Devil at four o'clock"
G - $15
Life Magazine April
14, 1961 : Cover - Mrs. Clark Gable and son,
John Clark. Historic photo discovered of scene of Lincoln's
death after he was taken from theatre, Julius Ulke photographer.
Picture study of Adolf Eichmann, how he spent his time in
jail. Secret Cuban revolt comes out into the open. Cuban
refugees in Florida, how they are coping. Full page color
TANG ad with picture of young man kissing a girl on the cheek.
Icebound trip of a stout little ship, the "William
Carson" bound
for Nova Scotia gets stuck in pack ice for 172 hours, Joseph
Coonrod and family from Newfoundland. Thailand's Buddhas
on display at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Norman L. Widen
of Onalaska, Wisconsin - pilot, receives souvenirs from the
man who shot him down in WWII, Anton Hafner. Photo essay
- earth's second layer is tapped, mohole in the Pacific Ocean.
The servant problem, Part 2, hiring workers from abroad.
Fashion, elegance in chiffon. Half page color Dickies ad
with Pat Boone. Debut of John Clark Gable. Jackie Gleason
soberly acts himself as a drunk. Sequel, bed races hit the
desert. Funny photo of two giraffes with one head. Statues
of Buddhas. Center spread two page color Kool-Aid ad, bright
and graphic images of smiling pitchers of drinks. Russian
Moiseyev troupe is first to dance rock n' roll on the stage
of the Metropolitan Opera House, color photos. Another lovely
Cadillac car ad with jewels.
VG - $25
G - $15
Life Magazine April
21, 1961 : Cover - Gagarin greets Khrushchev.
19 pages on Space :
inside Yuri's capsule, celebration in Moscow, Impact
on Washington, US space future. At the Eichmann trial.
Full page color Valiant ad with car in front of blimp.
Photo essay - work to preserve wilderness areas, Cape
Romain, South Carolina, Olympic forest, Cascade Pass,
Okefenokee Swamp, Big Bend Texas, Quetico-Superior.
Black magic in Africa, witchcraft and sorcery. New concepts
for space flight, concept illustrations by Robert McCall.
Sidney Poitier in " Raisin in the Sun." Surveyor
of the moon is expected to transmit direct information
by 1963. Kind way for mouth X-ray is developed. Latin
version of " Winnie-the-Pooh" is surprise best
seller of 1961. Elastic fabric in high style. Close-up
- Alan Watts and Zen. Gary Player, Masters champ's curious
victory, golf. Red Skelton is top US clown, backstage
photos of a worrier. Party - teen age astronauts take
a flight, including Tommy Marks and Mark Depp and Judy
Herr. Full page color Carnation evaporated milk ad with
recipe for stuffed hamburgers. Cute full page color
Lucky Whip ad with small boy putting mound of whipped
cream on bowl of gelatin.
VG - $30
G - $17
Life Magazine
April 28, 1961 : Cover - Elizabeth
Taylor - an Oscar at last. In Cuba we took a hell of
a beating and here's why. De-sanctified saint Philomena,
book by Sister Marie Helene Mohr. LIFE photos win awards,
football kickoff by George Silk, horse race by Mark
Kauffman, Yale Joel, Leonard McCombe. Leo Durocher and
Umpire Jocko Conland, baseball. J.F.K. - color photos
inside the White House. Three editorials on Castro.
Vatican moves to de-sanctify Saint Philomena. Murchisons
and Allan Kirby, biggest proxy fight ever. Brave woman's
ordeal in Siberia - Mrs. John Armonas. Steve Allen's
family frolic, his mom Belle Montrose and wife Jayne
Meadows onstage with him. Ringling Brothers circus elephants.
Cute full page color Friskies Dog Food ad with baseball
theme and spaniel dog with brown eye brows. First grade
school children help solve murder of teacher Mrs. Josephine
Keane. Cute two page color Swift's Premium (meat) ad
with father feeding twins at same time. NEAT two page
color photos of entire alphabet in signal flag jackets
(on people) at NewPort Beach, jackets by Mighty Mac
of Gloucester, Massachusetts. The urge to use herbs
in cooking, color photos of mint, sage, thyme, and more.
Cute photo of spaniel dog pulling down pants of 2 year-old
Alan Leatham in Mesa, Arizona. Center spread color Swift's
Premium ad with cute picture of father feeding twins.
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Magazine May 5, 1961 : Cover
- Anna Maria Alberghetti in charming photo with puppets.
De Gaulle's victory. Photos of frogs injected with radioactive
isotopes for medical experiments at Stetson University
in Florida. Full page color Campbell's tomato soup ad
with 9 ways to enjoy your soup, one of which looks remarkably
like Cheerios floaties. U.S. gets ready to launch man
into space - we fail to put capsule into space, but capsule
escape system works fine. Turandot is biggest opera hit
in 10 years. Divers and diggers uncover treasures and
history in the Holy Land at Caesarea. The servant problem
Part 3, trying to find a perfectionist, William Porter,
Jennie Carpenter, Martha Bush of Horseheads, New York.
Brave woman's ordeal in Siberia - last part. Full page
color Glass Container Manufacturers ad for no-deposit,
no-return bottles. Steve Clark speediest swimmer, Los
Altos High School, California. Clever new children's book
- Lorenzo (fish). Center spread great Olin ad with fierce-looking
tabby cat in a box. Krupp empire's big blowout celebration
in Essen. Full page color Four Roses whiskey ad with tennis-playing
couples courtside.
VG - $25
G - $15
F (Generally G, but cover is noticeably rubbed)
- $5
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Life Magazine
May 12, 1961 : Cover - Al Shepard is hauled into
helicopter. A-OK, the US is in space. Exclusive, Mrs.
Shepard's story. Laos goes down the drain, it could
be Vietnam and Thailand. Full page color GM Harrison
ad for air conditioned cars with illustration of polar
bear on roller coaster. Carry Back comes up to win the
Kentucky Derby. Capone heir hosts a wedding and the
mob meets the press. The present day radicals, left
and right, bring us neither hope nor realism. Photo
essay - romantic swing in architecture. Photo essay
- John Bird Society. Worldwide reactions counters abuse
of the man who returned $240,000, Douglas Johnson, an
honest man. Book business booms. Seattle student celebrates
her scholarship, Marcy DeCou. Inner tubes serve as trampolines,
tricky beach sport. Hillary expedition spends an oxygen-hungry
winter in the Himalayas. Youngsters at Riverhead County
Primary School in Kent learn geography on a giant map
painted on their school playground. Family tragedy unearthed
in Pompeii. Unusual vision study theorizes that perception
is partly a matter of moving, study subjects Brigitte
Alexandre and David Tierney in Boston. Hollywood housewives
smear their cheeks for charity, blacking out, including
Janet Leigh, Barbara Rush, Gloria Cahn, June Hutton,
Dean Martin's wife Jean. Cute photo of fan of new Los
Angeles Angels baseball team perched on a chimney. Back
cover Coca-cola ad of graduates in cap and gown.
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Life Magazine May 19,
1961 : Al Shepard relaxes with his fan mail.
The personal story of USA's first operating astronaut.
Drama in Kansas City ball park, Charles Macomber and
Don Sneed. Inside cover Kellog's Frosted Flakes ad with
a familiar-looking tiger peering in the kitchen window.
Cute photos of 3-year-old Sanra Kunhardt pretending
each day to be a doll named Peter. Laotian king Sisavang
Vong's funeral. Finale of a music robbery, record racketeers
rounded up in New York, Inspector John Lada. Photo essay
- Artist Rene Bouche portraying Tammy Grimes, 8 pages
of sketches and painting in progress. Photo essay -
epitaph for the "Albatross." Full page color ad with
Betsy Bell on the phone. Fancy new shower caps with
flowers. Chappaqua high schoolers try out music lab,
Rick Bridgman, Lu Chaudruc, Margot Smiley, Ginny and
Betty Dickenson. Chris Taranto, amazing high school
pitcher from Biloxi. A parachute like a pinwheel. Tiny
heart regulator is implanted in Brooklyn housewife.
Richard Fisher's Massachusetts-made boat is nearly unsinkable.
Peter Ustinov in " Romanoff and Juliet." G.E. Engineer
John Schmidt designs gadget to help victims of Stokes-Adams
disease, micro electronic is implanted in Mrs. Rose
Cohen of Brooklyn. FBI steps in to solve mother's dilemma
with mixed up twins with footprints. Full page Aetna
Casualty ad with photo of small, worried boy getting
an inoculation in his behind. A bevy of bassets on a
bash, party. Arthur Dubs of Medford, Oregon gets biggest
polar bear and has it stuffed.
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Life Magazine May 26,
1961 : Cover - Jackie Kennedy with Canadian Mountie
Harvison. Kennedys in Canada. Bloody beatings and a
burning bus in the South, includes photo of James Zwerg.
Laos fades. Sound of violence - new coup in Korea. Photo
essay - young Africans in U.S., including photos of
Edet Udo, Philip Maundu, Siteke Mwale, William Mbote,
Christian Ohiri and others. Gary Cooper dies, images
from funeral with stars in attendance, John Wayne, James
Stewart, Jack Benny, Marlene Dietrich. Shots from Gary
Cooper's film history. Movie " Misty" , horses.
Ancient relics found in Dead Sea cliffs cave, Yigael
Yadin, scrolls, candlesticks, skeleton, more. Full page
Bell telephone ad with curious giant Bell system
antenna for catching signals from satellite. Dried flower
bouquets, how to do it yourself. Full page Lufthansa
German Airlines ad with Pogo Poole. Interesting series
of photos of Anne Marie Edvina by ten different photographers.
Very cute full page color Lucky Whip ad with little
girl piling whipped topping on blueberries. Multiple
exposure photos of symphony by Suzanne Hausamann give
visual impression of music. Nice full page color Sun
Bath tanning lotion ad (Revlon) with lady sun bathing
in boat. Dried flower arrangements. Interesting full
page color Kelly Tires ad in redwoods. Harper Lee wins
Pulitzer Prize for " To Kill a Mockingbird."
Children of stars have Hollywood dancing school ball.
Neat photo of fan catching Willie Mays fly ball in Candlestick
park, baseball.
EXC - $42
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Life Magazine June
2, 1961 : Cover - Fidel Castro. The crisis in
our hemisphere, part 1 - How Castro and the Communists
are working to seize Latin America. Negroes go by bus
through the South on a ride for rights, including photos
of David Dennis, Julia Aaron, Matthew Walker, Jr. and
others. Negro First Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama
- National Guardsmen come in to stop riot . Charles
Boas as clown, PhD runs away and joins the circus. Full
page black and red ad for " The Last Sunset,"
starring Rock Hudson and Kirk Douglas. Christopher Wren,
architect, 10 pages of color photos. Judy Garland's
new rainbow, a great star is reborn. Newest in patio
life. House of the month - with central patio and others,
built by Joseph Eichler in San Francisco. Full page
" The aim of LIFE." Full page color Ethyl Corporation
(gas) ad featuring ghost town Calico, California. Edible
cellulose, food additive for dieters, no nutrition and
no calories. Nice two page color Swift's Premium Prem
meat ad with father and two boy scout sons. Reverend
William Sloane Coffin Jr. of Yale. New chapel under
construction at Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs.
Peace Corps entrance test, with photos of Marjorie Donnelly,
Joan Silberstein, George Maag, Lawrence Zimbler and
others. Cute full page Friskies Dog Food ad with Scottie
(Scottish Terrier) dog in tam O'shanter hat.
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Life Magazine June
9, 1961 : Cover - Kennedy in Paris. A liberal
meets Goldwater. Photo essay -The Public golfer, fore!
fore! - an army of sportsmen on the public links, New
York's Pelham Park, Kenneth Klemm, Jack Botteon.
Full page color Ronrico ad features Don Cayetano de
la Vega. America's new president deals with the tough
guys of Europe, De Gaulle and Khrushchev. June brides,
photos of 22 of the 205,000 women who will marry this
month, including Vanda Norgren of Denver who will
marry Olympic skier Buddy Werner, also Beryl Leli of
New york, Josephine Lowrance of Tennessee, more. Amazing
overhead photo of traffic jam in Tsukiji, Japan fish-selling
district. Prescription for stutters, get mad, Psychologist
Murry Snyder. In color - shellfish from many US regions,
with gourmet recipes. Page and a half Sealright packaging
ad has display of the evolution of milk cartons. Seven
pages on entertainment high points : "Guns of Navarone,"
the MacRaies in nightclub act, Tagore, breakup of the
Kinston Trio and more. Full page color Old Crow bourbon
ad with illustration of General Basil Duke arriving
in New York by C. Jones.
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Life Magazine June
16, 1961 : Cover - Weddings around the world,
Sherry and Eddie Harlow in Red Cloud, Nebraska, George
Hardcastle and Pauline Mitchell of Kansas City, Aleda
Wright and Gordon Moynihan Jr in Schenectady, New Nork,
plus weddings in Seville, Naples, Hon Kong, India, Germany,
more. Photo essay - Latin America, Part 2 - shocking
poverty spawns Reds. Colorful full page White King detergent
ad with woman in amazingly watermelon-colored hairdo
and mod background. Editorial - the costly trip to the
moon. Nervi designs a palace for Italy. In color - Russia's
elite scientists, artists and athletes including Puppeteer
Sergei Obraztsov, Planemaker Andrei Tuplev, Chemist
Nikolai Semenov, Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya, more. Glamorous
full page Cadillac ad with gold embroidery from the
Boston Museum of Fine Arts and jewels by Harry Winston.
Close-up - Newton Minow, head of the FCC. Limber Eddie
Foy, dancer. Religion and the schools, historic bitterness
lies behind new conflict n a great national debate.
Latest tricks in travel : easy-to-tote jet wardrobe,
gay-patterned luggage and three unspoiled vacation spots
(Cozumel, Hilton Head, Munising Falls). Cute photo of
Bobbie Cato continuing to dance after having lost a
shoe, Fayetteville Senior High school. Full page color
Glass Container Manufacturers ad with returnable bottles.
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Life Magazine June
23, 1961 : Cover - Princess Grace Kelly. Young John
Clark Gable's christening. Full page ad for " By Love Possessed"
starring Lana turner, Efrem Zimbalist Jr., George Hamilton,
more. Goldfine case, he describes friendship, gifts and the
way Eisenhower reacted to his imprudence. SAC alert - Operation
Readiness Inspection hits Loring Air Force Base in Maine,
ORI. Nice two page photo of Grace Kelly with Jennie Flanagan.
18-year-old Lew Krausse Jr. is starting pitcher for
Kansas City Athletics, baseball. Full page color America
Fore Loyalty Group ad with painting of Sergeant William Jasper
by F.C. Yohn. Backache - its cause. Photo essay - Harvard's
325th commencement. In color - Danish pleasure park Tivoli,
twelve pages of sumptuous photos by Mark Kaufmann. Oskar
Kokoschka, painter and teacher, at his famous art school
in Austria. College teacher tells of ingenious, illegal and
widespread ways students pass exams. Full page color Canada
Dry ad, sodas in flavors and cans. Cute photo of Cindy Breig,
infant, with dog Bimby.
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 Life Magazine June 30, 1961 : Cover - Leslie Caron.
The world's crookedest horse race, the Palio in Siena
Italy. Cute two page color Swift's Premium ad with four
kids cooking hotdogs over campfire on the beach. The intimate
papers of John Adams part I, photos by Andreas Feininger.
General Khrushchev closes Berlin. Eichmann on the stand,
with courtroom illustrations by Ronald Searle. Full page
Western Electric ad with photo of large synthetic quartz
crystal. Billy Graham in Great Britain. Bolivia miners
in revolution. Full page color Granny Goose potato chips
ad. Al Hirt, jazz player in a club and with his family.
Photo of bellhop race in Philadelphia, with suitcases.
Photo of 1,091 couples together in Cleveland's Public
Hall - all married for more than 50 years and celebrating
courtesy of the Cleveland Press. Photo of three Miss Americas
in Atlanta, Mary Ann Mobley, Lynda Lee Mead, and Nancy
Anne Fleming. Cute half-page US Savings Bond ad with small
girl climbing up on kitchen counter. Two page full color
Enco ad with photo of tornado that hit Scottsbluff, Nebraska
in 1955.
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Life Magazine July
7, 1961 : Cover - Ike down on the farm.
Full page Serta Mattress ad with baseball theme, the
companies that " team up" to make the mattresses.
Full page color Ethyl Corporation ad with kids on an
" American Wood Burner" train in the railroad
museum at Greenfield Village. Biggest American Medical
Association convention, what your doctor learned at
it. Small photo of Joe DiMaggio as ex-wife Marilyn Monroe
is carried into hospital for gall bladder surgery. All-start
cast in whodunit " Who Killed Julie Greer,"
including Ronald Reagan, Mickey Rooney, Lloyd Bridge,
Edgar Bergen, more. Britain's Susannah York is an actress
headed for fame. Exhilarating sport of baton-passing
by parachutists, color photos by Charles Bonnay at Orange,
Massachusetts Sport Parachute Center, sky-divers Steve
Boyle, Lew Sanborn. Excellent full page color Friskies
dog food ad with Schnauzer dog wearing brown cowboy
hat. Secret moments of Kennedy campaign, illustrations
by Arthur Shilstone. Half page Bell Telephone System
ad promotes teaching by closed circuit TV. Better living
news from the beach - fashions, games and more.
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Life Magazine
July 14, 1961 : Cover - Ernest Hemingway. Call
of Danger - In pictures, Hemingway's fascination with
bravery and death, his funeral. Memoir of Hemingway
by Archibald MacLeish. Full page color Kool-Aid with
frosty smiling pitcher of purple. MacArthur's welcome
in the Philippines. Sandswept defense of Kuwait. Higher
and mightier Hoffa, Teamster Joe Silvaro wears a Hoffa
sticker on his belly. Cute photo of two nuns from the
Vincentian Sisters of Charity bowling in full habits
in Pittsburgh. Israel's big rocket lift. Navy's seagoing
lady sailor - Charlene Suneson. Latin America's story
of turbulence Part 4. Aqua bobber - strange new water
play " toy" for adults, Sharon Beeman at shopping
center in Michigan. Big names in small summer theatres,
Ginger Rogers, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Steve Allen and Jayne
Meadows, Julie Newmar, more. Full page color Glass Container
Manufacturers ad with two no-return bottles and a glass
of soda. Charming photo of 4 year-old Bobby Keene with
his dad, Tom Keene, all outfitted to go scuba diving.
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Life Magazine
July 21, 1961 : Cover - Flavio da Silva's Rescue
from Rio de Janeiro thanks to LIFE readers. Latest Soviet
military planes are eye-poppers. Navy blimp deflates.
Full page color Glass Container Manufacturers ad with
sealable glass jars and glass of iced tea. Full page
color S&H Green Stamps ad with smiling woman in
front of glassware. Model agent John Harkrider recruits
mail models. Life rides the Trans-Siberian Railroad
- fourteen pages of photos by John Launois. Splendrous
art of Gustav Moreau - color photos. Howard Hawks casts
newcomer Michele Girardon in Hatari. Cold soup recipes.
Teen fashion trends- self-decorated sneakers and oversized
t-shirt-dress-top. Hose of the Month, Frank H. Godfrey
home designed by Edwar J. Seibert in Sarasota, Florida.
Unusual full page Canadian Club Whiskey ad with Snowless
Ski Jump outside Oslo in Norway, skier Peter Thyness.
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Life Magazine
July 28, 1961 : Cover - Brigitte
Bardot. Latin America - Part 5, fourteen pages of dramatic
photos of a diverse terrain and people. Nice full page
color coffee, two women in soft focus at a kitchen table.
Full page Maytag washer ad features unnamed family in
West Hyattsville, Maryland with five boy children. Fears
of border closure in Berlin, east to west exodus continues.
Second U.S. man in space, Virgil Grissom.Full page black
and red ad for " Come September" starring Rock
Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee, and Bobby Darin.
Can the dolphin learn to talk, psychophysiologist John
C. Lily in Miami, dolphins Elvar and Tolva. Little League
baseball in Danville, Indiana, including photos of Eric
Lawrence of Printer's Devils, Rex Givan and mother Pat
Givan, Barry Wilson. J.F.K.'s jolly dodger - Pierre
Salinger. Graphic photo from
the " Running of the Bulls" in Pamplona. Cute
photo of Ellen Elizabeth Tsaloff, age 19 months, of
Ishpeming, MIchigan getting her hair bow fixed. James
Earl Jones in theater production of " The Blacks."
Nice photo of Queen Juliana of Netherlands bicycling.
Bonco rider Willie Little Bear in his last seconds on
the horse before falling to his death in the Calgary
Stampede. Full page color gilbey's gin ad with illustration
of skiers in front of the Matterhorn by John Moodie.
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Life Magazine
August 4, 1961 : Cover - John F. Kennedy . The
latest in family fallout shelters. Backlash from Bizerte.
Iranian queen Soraya's summer idyll. Full page Carnation
evaporated milk ad with recipe for no-bake whipped angel
food pie. Mitzi Gaynor wows Las Vegas, photos of her
in four different costumes. Photo essay - 312 mile adventure
on the Colorado River, below Glen Canyon, with Georgie
White. Wayne Wilson in Plastic ball " boat"
on Colorado river. Deepest dive ever made, Hannes Keller
Ken MacLeish in Lake Maggiore to 728 feet. Donna Reed
and costar Coco, the 138-pound poodle. Sun pleasures
and perils : sun worshipers and sun tanning. Sir Edwin
Landseer, artist, dog art. Virgil Grissom, astronaut,
writes about being scared. Indian ceremonies across
the country. Full page color Ethyl Corporation ad with
photo of Hull-Rust-Mahoning iron mine at Hibbing, Minnesota.
The president's speech and the draft, includes photos
of Ralph Best, Edgar and Aloha Schaefer, General Maxwell
Taylor. Cute photo of boy fleeing the women's changing
room at the pool at high speed - he had entered by mistake.
Full page color Heublein Cocktails ad featuring Tony
Randall.
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Life Magazine
August 11, 1961 : Cover - Sophia Loren - photo
essay by Alfred Eisenstaedt and article. Off day among
the occult by Stanley Karnow. Maya mystery - ruins in
Guatemala. Life tours the Northwest, photos by J. R.
Eyerman, Yosemite National Park, Crater Lake, Grand
Coulee Dam, Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, Golden
Gate Bridge. Full page color Kool-Aid ad with big frosty
smiling pitcher in green. Junior Fashion - girls show
their knees, includes photos of Susan and Sherry Anderson
of Seattle, Nancy Gore at Vanderbilt, and Lane and Jane
Kelley. Nice full page Western Flyer bicycle ad. LIFE
guide to State Fairs. Photo of a huge smoke ring in
Canada, Alberta caused by 100 tons of TNT. Young American
musicians abroad, including photos of : Susan Baldwin
in Amsterdam, Arthur Baker in Japan, Arlene Weiser,
Jane Budworth in Berlin. Full page color Smirnoff ad
with swallow arriving to perch on the glass.
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Life Magazine
August 18, 1961 : Cover - Mickey Mantle and Roger
Maris in front of photo of Babe Ruth. Frank Talk on
Youth and Sex by Ann Landers. Will Yankee sluggers,
smash 60 homers - the real odds? Robert Kennedy attends
the independence ceremonies in the Ivory Coast. Full
page color Glass container Manufacturer ad with tall
beverage bottles. Russia's Titov returns from17 orbits
of the planet. Forest fire above Hollywood, dramatic
color image of the Hollywood hills ablaze at night,
includes color photo of airplane N7961C dropping fire
retardant. Another skyjacking, Pan American jet en route
to Guatemala. Art of China, collection hidden for decades
on island of Formosa, 12 pages in color. Photo essay
- The odds on Mantle or Maris breaking Babe Ruth's home
run record, baseball. Full page color ad for " P-F"
shoes, by B.F. Goodrich and Hood. After a spell of successful
spying in the US, a former Communist agent finds Americans
easy prey for espionage, they talk too much, Pawel Monat.
Ann Landers offers straight talk on sex and growing
up for teens. Actresses going over-the-top about certain
colors, Tina Louise and red, Jayne Mansfield and Zsa
Zsa Gabor in the pink (with a pink poodle, of course).
Goofy photo of two Danish workmen in Copenhagen. Lovely
full page color Gilbey's Vodka ad with lady in red.
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Life Magazine
August 25, 1961 : Cover - West Berliners stand
their ground. Full page color Post cereals and TANG ad,
buy them both and get free white " hobnail" design glass
and bowl. Oops, photo of paratrooper landing in the top
of his comrade's open chute. Hemingway's last words letter
reproduction. On the brink in Berlin - start of the Berlin
Wall, closing of the gate. Death of a Judge - Learned
Hand by Ernest Havemann. Two page Standard Oil ad with
close-up photo of " skin diver" in helmet and water up
to his nose. Up the impossible wall - Mt McKinley, Annibale
Zucchi, Romano Perego, Ginacarlo Canali and Luigi Alippi
amazing ascent photos. Ole Miss beauty queens - Sarah
Kay Burns, Annice Raye Jernigan, Rita Wilson. W. R. Hearst
leaps in journalism by W. A. Swanberg. Diane Ellison wins
women's world billing title at Hayward, Wisconsin. Photo
of horse race finish at Saratoga, where all the horses
in the race finished in the order of their jerseys (#1
was first, #2 second, etc). The Pond - photos by Alfred
Eisenstaedt. Sky High house on a pedestal - Leonard Malin's
house in LA. Great full page Bell Telephone System ad
of phone booth with sign " temporarily closed, bird nesting"
and a robin in its nest on top of the phone, White Oak,
Maryland. Full page Maytag ad with army family of David
Hall, moving from Germany to Baltimore and back to Germany
with their washer.
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Life Magazine September
1, 1961 : Cover - Jackie Kennedy (feature inside).
The First Lady tells her plans for the White House.
Neat photo of Little League team from El Campo, Texas.
Full page color Kellogg's Rice Krispies cereal ad with
yummy looking presentation with strawberries, but if
this was your serving size you'd be hungry again in
about 15 minutes! Two page Royal Typewriter ad, one
color page with typewriter, other page lists dealers.
Great full page photo of Colonel Glover Johns Jr in
uniform and looking pensive. Charming full page color
Miss Clairol hair color ad with a lovely freckled lady.
Neat illustrated report on baseball pitcher Warren Spahn,
who has just had 300th major league victory, the Braves.
Almost funny full page color Koroseal upholstery ad
with the most boring square sofa set in bright green,
stating " Show piece for unique luxury" - people
today couldn't wait to carry these to the trash. Here
is quite the quote pertaining to the New York political
race " Voters, why settle for a hack or a bungler
for mayor when you can get an incompetent?" Great
photo of a row of men with brooms, New York Whitewings
and Frank Lucia. Photo of Francoise Pellegrino being
a golf caddy for Joseph P. Kennedy, the President's
father. Attractive two page color Sears ad showing lots
of items available there. Photo essay - Surfers in California
including Larry Shaw (fantastic photo), Hugh Foster,
and someone who looks exactly like Tom Cruise. In color
- the art of Maurice Prendergast. Paris fashion, the
new word is shape, in dresses, suits, corsets. Close-up
- Leo Szillard, scientist. Warren Spahn of the Brave's,
baseball.
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Life Magazine September
8, 1961 : Cover - US Tanker ready for trouble
in Germany. Ike's stand on Berlin. The wall of Berlin
is being built, border skirmishes taking place. High
wire heroics in Alps : French jet cuts cable car line
near Chamonix, those who survive must be lowered by
lines, five pages of photos from the rescue. Two page
color Seagram's ad with many stylish people at the bowling
alley. More outrageous commerce from Maidenform ad,
with woman driving red and gilt chariot, wearing plumed
helmet and her bra, of course. Monsoon season comes
to India, photo essay by Brian Brake, 20 pages in color.
Beards are back. Dilemmas of love and marriage, Part
1, changing roles for women in marriage and career.
Full page color LOF Glass ad with photo of students
studying at Ithaca Senior High School in Ithaca, New
York. Fight training underwater, 19-year-old Cassius
Marcellus Clay. Close-up - Author Mickey Spillane. Sean
Flynn, son of Errol, actor and ladies' man. Missing
art masterpieces, wave of thefts from Pittsburgh to
Riviera. Full page Volkswagen ad with image of...nothing...
" no point in showing it, it looks the same."
Audrey Hepburn nearly unrecognizable in " family"
photo of Golightlys in early scenes from " Breakfast
at Tiffany's."
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 Life Magazine September 15, 1961 : Cover - Man in
civilian fallout suit. How you can survive radioactive
fallout : 97 out of 100 people can be saved, detail
plans for building shelters and a letter to you from
President Kennedy. Full page color Friskies dog food
ad with black Scotty dog wearing blue and red Scottish
hat (same ad in June 2, 1961). United Nations soldiers
waging a war against war, the Congo. Dr. Henrik Forss
and his wife and children in the village of Kabinda,
Kasai. In color - US furniture designer T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings,
Greek styles. Photo essay - fallout shelters. Marshall
Kriesel, young rocketeer. Youth in the Peace Corps.
Jim Shoulders, rodeo star nicknamed "Mister Broken Bones."
An integration job in Atlanta, a quiet triumph. Neat
photo of Jim Arnold on a high bicycle, a stratocyle.
Love and marriage, Part 2 - courtship. Photo of six
RAF parachutists arm-in-arm in mid-air. Full page color
Metrecal ad, dietary supplement drink. Full page color
Schlitz beer ad with female fisherman. Full page color
Hires root beer ad with Bob Hope. Full page Mutual of
New York MONY insurance ad with Gene Roddenberry. Jack
Paar brings in extra troops to film a Berlin checkpoint.
Peace Corps, including photos of Ron Atwater, Jo Anne
Bryan, Robert Pooley, Don Preston and others. Nurses
learn how to rescue patients in hospital fires. Marriage,
part 2 - Modern courtship, the great illusion. Luis
the donkey at the C. Lazy U ranch in Granby, Colorado.
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Life Magazine September
22, 1961 : Cover - Fighting Carla's winds in
Galveston, Texas. Hurricane Carla, in the eye of a mighty
storm, including ordeal of Robert Dunn who lost his
family. Astronaut's vigil, Alan Shepard - project Mercury.
Full page color Green Giant ad with illustration " in
the valley." Nice photo of Mrs. Helen North with
8 children marries Francis Beardsley with 10 children.
Crew of the Memphis Belle B-17 has reunion, Vincent
Evans. In color - Idlewild, architecture of the jet
age, a memorial to a great architect, Eero Saarinen.
Photo essay - Norris Graves and family on ranch in Wyoming
on Red Fork of Powder River. Love and Marriage, Part
3 - shadow of divorce. More with Yvette Mimieux, two
pages of color photos. Phil Hill's victory at Grand
Prix of Italy is marred by death of Count "Von Crash.",
Grand Prix car race, race crash. Jack Arthur Somer,
sound engineer. Tahiti - a south seas idyll slightly
spoiled. Poppies and azaleas should be planted now for
spring, gorgeous color photos of flowers in bloom to
entice gardeners. Funny photo of hapless basset hounds
with noses through the fence at a barbeque. Full page
color Curtiss Candy Company ad for new candy, Butterfinger.
Greece and Spain link in love when Princess Sophia is
engaged to Prince Juan Carlos.
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Life Magazine September
29, 1961 : Cover - Dag Hammarskjold funeral, his
death in Congo puts the entire UN in jeopardy. Family
goes down Niagara Falls in a barrel - William Hill Sr.
Red Hill, Major Hill, and Wesley Hill. Baby elephant Norma
steals food from New Jersey Governor Meyner 's plate in
Trenton. Full page color Friskies cat food ad, orange
tabby licking its chops. Two page full color Ford Trucks
ad. Ceclie Dionne Langlois of the Dionne quints gives
birth to twins. Russia scores glamour coup at fashion
show in Paris. Architecture - boom in domes. Mugnano,
Italy still celebrates Saint Philomena despite Vatican's
desanctification of her. A wrestling match with an octopus
near Tacoma, Washington. Fair weather boots for any hour
- designers Vera Maxwell, Herbert Levine, and House of
Dior. Two page full color 62 sedan and Sedan de Ville
ad. Fred Gwynne and Joe E. Ross of " Car 54, Where Are
You?" Chinese art treasures - the life of Shang, 10 pages
in color. I tried not think about it by Roger Maris. Free
enterprise in Space, AT&T
puts its first satellite into orbit, Mrs. Louise Bucker
of Milwaukee. Happy Marriage part IV by Ernest Havemann.
Two page Serta as with Bob Hope endorsement. Sir Laurence
Olivier in The Power and the Glory.
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Life Magazine October
6, 1961 : Cover - Liz Taylor, back at work as
Cleopatra. Blunt truth from Chiang, as China fight gets
hot. A wildcat joint task force takes bold gambles in
search for Arctic oil, Melville Island. Doug Parker,
Peder Thomsen, Peter Bawden, Laurids Nielsen, Ed Tovell,
Bent Skydt, Lloyd Dease. Half page Ford Falcon ad with
Charlie Brown and Linus comic.Two page color Revlon
ad, glamorous woman in red and white, imperial surrounding
for " Louis XIV Red" nail color. Russian models
getting attention for their surprising luxury. British
soliloquy on sex. Ilchester swannery in Abbotsbury,
England. Cute two page Del Monte Round-Up ad with childlike
crayon illustration of kids and wagon. In color - the
love affair with locomotives, American railroad buffs
are faithful to the vanishing Iron Horse, Ron glaus,
Ray Sebetka, Bud Swearer, Pershing Scott, Lee Kimmelman.
Photo Essay - Liz Taylor as Cleopatra. Close-up - Ambassador
Galbraith in India. Art - nudes are back, Maillol, more.
Fred Hutchinson, Manager of Cincinnati Reds versus Ralph
Houk, manager of the New York Yankees, baseball. Limbering
up for limbo with a new party kit from Wham-O, Joan
Moiola, Harry Gisler, Darah Preble in Newport Beach,
California. Ziv Mayer, wizard of odds. Cute photo of
conductor Russell Stanger. Full page GE lightbulb ad
with cartoon of Mister Magoo.
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Life Magazine October
13, 1961 : Cover - Warega warrior poised for
attack. 22 pages of color photos of Africa's Savage
Beauty by Eliot Elisofon, with quotes from many writers
enthralled with Africa. Charming story of dramatic and
sad play written and performed by third graders at the
New Lincoln School in New York, Zachary Rogow, Lisa
Cammett, teacher Arthur Swan, Barbara Zucker, Matthew
Elkan, Jill Nelson Neat photo of congregation having
service on church lawn as church fire is put out, Asbury
Methodist Church in Del Paso Heights, California. Tribute
to Jack Benny. Half page color Hires Root Beer ad with
Bob Hope. Tailor Sam Harris is suitmaker for JFK. Red
China is in trouble , flood, drought, and not enough
food. Vertigo-inducing photo of workman polishing steel
eagle on the Chrysler Building in New York, hanging
from cable 61 stories up. Photo of Jack Benny in the
school orchestra at day to honor him in his hometown
of Waukega, Illinois. Small photo of Bob Hope, Dorothy
Lamour and Bing Crosby on location for " The Road
to Hong Kong." Photo essay - sorority rushing at
Alabama. Businesses raided for executives. Two page
color Humble Oil & Refining Company ad with dramatic
photo of Mexico's Paricutin volcano. Close-up - David
Ormsby Gore. Sorority rushing at University of Alabama,
Burke Fitzpatrick, Bea Lackey, Margaret Flack, Lana
Bell. The black leather look from the West Side. Cute
full page color Texaco ad showing little boy getting
a toy Texaco tanker ship. Full page color Lucky Strike
cigarettes ad with Frank Gifford, New York Giants, football.
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Life Magazine October
20, 1961 : Cover - eight communist leaders. Photo
essay - Communism, Part 1. Cute (grim?) photo of three
youngsters building a play Berlin wall, Peter Friedrich,
Jurgen Bottcher, and Katrin Kuhl. Hunting season opens,
Dove hunting, including photos of Helen Rome, Jo Barrousse,
Hank Harkins, Mrs. Melvin Thrash, Mrs. Charles Burns
and others.. Red stamp hoax. In color - Broadway's "West
Side Story." Wild fabric patterns. Lifesaving heart
pump. Steve Linner. Curtis LeMay, general. Rocket-powered
flying belt. Parachutists Charles Bonnay, Daniel Camus,
and Jacques Dubourg land on top of Mont Blanc. Kids
at a Space show, Thomas Sepp, Marianne Sangesland, and
" My God, they launched the wrong rocket."
Full page Volkwagen bug car ad with ways to tell a
1961 from a 1962. Beautiful full page color Dodge Dart
440 car ad with red four-door. Cute photo of David Nowak
kissing bride Darlene as his train pulled away. Broadway
musical " West Side Story." Metropolitan Museum
of Art moved an 800-year-old apse from Spain to New
York City. St. Bernard do Hughey belonging to Fritz
Connor of Columbus, OHio meets a chipmunk.
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Life Magazine October
27, 1961 : Cover - GI looking out of leafy camouflage.
GI trains for guerrilla war. Communism, Part 2 - Khrushchev
close in. Vietnam, our next showdown. Feature on US
Army Master Sergeant Antonio Duarte in Vietnam. Funny
picture of Boston Celtics and Syracuse Nationals basketball
players on their knees on the court in Worcester, Massachusetts,
looking for Tom Sanders' contact lens. Cute full page
color 7up ad with young people in a rain. Red fallout
shelters. Full page Toho Company ad for Japanese-made
film " The Last War." In color - Picasso, his
personal collection, 10 pages of photos by David Douglas
Duncan. Gifted daughters of famous fathers : Hayley
Mills, Vanessa Redgrave, Susan Strasberg, Brooke Hayward,
Anna Massey, Sarah Marshall. First Miss Teen-Age America
contest in Dallas, Janice Zoch of Louisiana, Joyce Worman
of Indiana, Gail Thomas of Ohio, winner Diane Lynn Cox
of Virginia. Two page Sears as with woman in a mink
stole, Sears is one of the largest mink retailers in
the country, who knew? Peace Corps volunteer Margery
Michelmore causes furor by mailing her impressions of
Nigeria on a postcard for too many people to see. Rosemary
Clooney and Jose Ferrer divorce. Cheerful charity pay-off
at Zoomsi auction in Portland, Oregon. Brigham Young
University finds lucky mascot. Calamity on the Bounty.
Back cover Coca-Cola ad with barn dancers.
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Life Magazine November
3, 1961 : Cover - Daughter's goodbye to father
returning to duty. Red Arrow division gets the call
- "Back to duty" in Reedsburg, Wisconsin, includes Bill
Hutchins and Bill Whitney, Maynard Mittlesteadt and
more. Super photo of Michael Steadman throwing down
his cloak over puddle for the Queen. Photos of launch of
Saturn rocket. Opera singer Leontyne Price works again with
conductor Herbert Von Karajan. Two page color Stevens Fabrics
ad with image of parachutist.
Benevolent US bomb. In color
- The Adams Papers, Part 2 - John Adams abroad in France,
Holland, England. Full page New England Life ad with photo
of douglas Fairbanks, Sr. as D-Artagnan in " The Three Musketeers."
Search for the mysterious J.D. Salinger. Nocturnal animals
by red light at the Bronx Zoo, douroucouli, genet, bush babies.
The age of the hairdresser. Paris bound with Diahann Carroll,
Sidney Poitier, Duke Ellington. Leningrad Kirov Ballet, Kolpakova
and Semenov in " Giselle," American dancer Edward Villella.
Warren Beatty is biggest new name in American entertainment,
photos with Eva Marie Saint, Natalie Wood, Vivien Leigh,
Jan Norris. Follow-up to Peace Corps postcard affair (see
October 27, 1961). Hawaiian football. How Denver's cops turned
crook, shocking facts behind a city's disgrace, Carl M. Johnson,
Jack Frey. Great photo of Barbara Cain with winning bubble
gum bubble.
VG - $25
G - $15
Life Magazine November
10, 1961 : Cover - Khrushchev. Communism, Part
3 - how we can fight back. Reds step up the pace. In
Moscow a plot unfolds and a despot emerges. Nuclear
fallout worries. Full page color Heublein Cocktails
ad with Orson Bean. Thurber memories. Cancer, new cures
coming. In color - Ethel Kennedy and her children. Evening
extravaganzas, fashion on the West coast with Oriental
influence. Funny exchange of photos between Bing Crosby
and Bob Hope dressed as astronauts, and astronauts Shepard
and Grissom dressed as song-and-dance men. Aviation,
craziest kite in the sky, looks like a foldable ultralight
by Ryan Aeronautical. Dr. Paul Dudley White of Boston
on his hobbyhorse, a precursor of the pedal bike, photos
of other historic bikes including Rebessa Russell on
a big-wheeler and Oliver and Stephen Parry on a " companion"
bike with side-by-side seats and steering. Full page
Sunbeam Shavemaster ad with " test" taken by
man on the street, Byron C. Ostby in Madison Wisconsin.
Teddy's grandson Kermit Roosevelt takes a Sentimental
Safari back to the places in Africa that T.R. loved,
7 pages of " then and now" photos. Violent
end for Tristan da Cunha, island with new volcano, islanders
forced to evacuate. Sweet full page color Northern Tissue
ad with blue-eyed brunette little girl illustration.
VG - $25
G - $15
F (All G, but cover
loose from staples) - $5
 Life
Magazine November 17, 1961 : Cover - Minnesota
Vikings football players, fold-out photo. Photo essay
- Under fire with the pros : Battle-cry "Get the quarterback!"
Firestorm's inferno in Los Angeles, Beth Fishman, Paul
Kohner, Bel Air area, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Maureen O-Hara,
Fred MacMurray, more. Full page Columbia Records ad
for new releases by The Brothers Four, Leonard Bernstein,
Anita Bryant, more. Postage stamp designs under fire
from collectors and the general public. Udall-san's
Fuji feat, Interior Secretary summits Japanese mountain.
In color - sea birds. Full page General Electric ad
for toy space capsule. Tony Curtis in a Bronx dream,
the beautiful life. Doctors try big bag for safe surgery,
University of Arkansas Medical School. Charles Howard's
Certified Santa School. No more measles with new vaccine.
Frenchman finds dinosaur eggs by the dozen, Raymond
Dughi. Nobel prize for Zulu chief, Albert Luthuli. Aviation,
stunt flyer Cliff Winters. Full page Champion spark
plug ad with Bobby Unser winning Pikes Peak hill climb
race. Two page color Hartford Insurance ad with trompe
l'oile painting of Hayden's Keg and its contents by
Fred Eng.
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Life Magazine November
24, 1961 : Year-old JFK, Jr. Exclusive - in the
White House nursery. US beefs up Vietnam. Full page
color ad for Seattle World's Fair coming in 1962. Full
page Tea Council ad with pencil portrait of Otto Graham
by Robert Riger. Grim sequel to Tarzan, suicide of man
with same name, John Greystroke. In color - art from
trash, 10 pages of photos by Art Kane, work by John
chamberlain, Richard Staniewicz, Robert Malllary, Robert
Rauschenberg. Photo essay - the Twist (dance), Manhattan's
Peppermint Lounge, socialites Ina Balin, Susan Stein,
Pamela Drexel, more, bandleader Joey Dee, grandmas and
toddlers do it, too, Chubby Checker. Full page Sunbeam
Shavemaster ad with on-the-street test with Harold Fisk
in St. Louis, Missouri. Provocative clues to human mystery
in Africa, a link to man. Fashion - fake furs get fancy.
Anna Moffo, soprano. George C. Scott and Jackie Gleason
in The Hustler. Transistor craze, there's no escaping
the noise of portable radios. Jackie Kennedy goes headfirst
over her horse. Full page color Kool-air ad with frosty
smiling purple pitcher.
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G - $15
Life Magazine December
1, 1961 : Cover - Italian beauties in at-home
wear, fold-out photo. 14 pages in color - the bold Italian
look that changed fashion, photos by Mark Kauffman.
Full page color Trifari jewels ad with sparkling earrings,
necklaces and more. Full page color Pan-American Coffee
Bureau ad, blurry image of two men playing chess and
drinking coffee. Terry Jo Duperrault and the "Blue |
