Description
Original LIFE Magazine — April 2, 1956
LIFE Magazine April 2 1956 features “The Teenage Telephone Tie-Up” on the cover, capturing a familiar slice of 1950s teenage life and social culture. The issue also highlights a major LIFE feature on the U.S. Antarctic beachhead, including eight pages in color, along with Winston Churchill on liberty’s first charter.
- Cover Subject: The Teenage Telephone Tie-Up
- Inside This Issue: The teenage telephone phenomenon; U.S. Antarctic beachhead coverage with eight pages in color; Winston Churchill on liberty’s first charter; plus LIFE’s signature news, photography, culture, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: 1950s Americana collectors, teenage culture and telephone-history enthusiasts, Antarctic exploration collectors, Winston Churchill collectors, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue offers an authentic snapshot of American life in 1956, from teenage social habits to international exploration and history. Its original photography, reporting, advertising, and editorial design make it a distinctive collectible from the mid-1950s.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 23 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Hand That Shook the Democrats: Kefauver Moves to Front After Defeating Stevenson in Minnesota Primary
Pg… 35 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Breaks Into the Frozen Continent of Antarctica. Photographed for LIFE by Fritz Goro
Pg… 48 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Snowfall Samaritans Rescue a Mailman in New York Storm
Pg… 30 EDITORIAL: The Resurrection: an Event That Beggars Comment
Pg… 64 ARTICLE: Barons Against the King: Part III of Volume I (“The Birth of Britain”) in Sir Winston Churchill’s “History of the English–Speaking Peoples.” Plus a Portfolio of Paintings by Contemporary Artists on Medieval Life
Pg… 50 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Skillful Arrangements of Simple Flowers Create Grand Effects. Painted for LIFE by Mary Faulconer
Pg… 102 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Tireless, Talky Teen–Agers Keep Telephone Lines Tolling. Photographed for LIFE by Grey Villot
Pg… 57 FASHION: Designer Luis Estevez, a One–Year Wonder, and His Neckline
Pg… 93 SPORTS: San Francisco Dons Sets a Basketball Victory Record the Easy Way
Pg… 98 RADIO AND TV: Fans and Friends Mourn Fred Allen
Pg… 111 RELIGION: Catholics Revise Easter with Ancient Rites and Modern Notes
Pg… 117 YOUTH: Kansas City Children Cut Capers in a Shopping Center Zoo
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: the Matching Poujades
Pg… 19 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 120 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: the Snow Also Rises
