Description
Original LIFE Magazine — May 27 1957
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published May 27 1957 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Knights of Columbus Honor Guard at Birthplace
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s coverage of the Knights of Columbus honor guard at its birthplace, along with the original news, photography, advertising, religious organization coverage, American tradition, culture, politics, and features from May 1957.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Birthday gifts, anniversary keepsakes, Knights of Columbus collectors, Catholic history readers, American tradition collectors, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone who wants a meaningful gift from a specific date or year.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 20 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Mighty City Hears a Mighty Call; Billy Graham Takes on New York
Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: How a “Miracle” was Made on Long Island to Save a Small Boy
Pg… 37 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 43 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: In Cuba’s Man’s War, U.S. Boys Quit
Pg… 45 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: New Landing at Jamestown: Island Marks 350th Anniversary. The Event is Discussed by Editor Virginius Dabney
Pg… 117 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Saucer Session for Spaceship Sighters
Pg… 35 EDITORIAL: Defense and the Danger Line
Pg… 54 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Knights of Columbus in 75th Year: a Million–Member Fraternal Order is the Busy, Prosperous “Right Arm of the Catholic Church in America”
Pg… 92 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Fifty Wildflowers from Six U.S. Areas are the Best to Grow at Home. Painted for LIFE by Anne Ophelia Todd
Pg… 77 ARTICLES: How Reds Used Captive Brains: Artful Pressure on Germans Yielded a Plane Engine Unequaled in the West
Pg… 126 ARTICLES: The Unending Search for “Normal” Vision: Everybody Wants It, Almost Nobody has It, and Despite a Host of Modern Treatment the Only Sure Way to Get It is 700 Years Old. By Richard Carter
Pg… 68 MOVIES: Guitar–Thumping Demagogue: Andy Griffith Shines in “Face in the Crowd”
Pg… 85 CLOSE–UP: “I Wonder Why Nobody Don’t Like Me”: Harry Belafonte is the Country’s Most Popular Calypso Singer
Pg… 103 ENTERTAINMENT: Scrapbook Views of a Smart Stripper: After Years of Showing Almost All Gypsy Rose Lee is Now Telling All
Pg… 111 HISTORY: A Great Battle Newly Viewed: Old Comrades–in–Arms, Ike and Monty, Analyze Gettysburg
Pg… 121 SPORTS: Death Finally Takes a Man Who Courted It: Alfonso de Portago’s Fatal Crash in Italy’s Mille Miglia
Pg… 143 PARTY: Splendor Fit for Kings: Rulers of Iraq and Saudi Arabia Bury an Old Feud with Big Party in Baghdad
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: a Floor Full of Fortunes
Pg… 16 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 146 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Dilemma of the Horns
