Description
Original LIFE Magazine — April 29 1957
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published April 29 1957 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Hot Rod Fever
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s coverage of hot rod fever and drag racing, along with the original news, photography, advertising, auto culture coverage, air safety reporting, culture, politics, and features from April 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, hot rod collectors, drag racing fans, auto history readers, 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… 30 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Senate Committee Uncovers Labor Violence on a Local Level in Scranton, Pa.
Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Coup by Jordan’s Young King Heads Off Red Coup
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Scouts’ Survival Test: Parents Suffer More than Their Snowbound Sons
Pg… 40 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Exiled Archbishop Makarios Returns to Greece and to His Political Crusade
Pg… 47 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 55 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Time of Trouble in North Carolina’s Toe Valley: a Powerful Father’s Fight for Errant Son Begets Fear and Violence
Pg… 42 EDITORIALS: Hungary?Lest We Forget!
Pg… 42 EDITORIALS: Russian’s Big Depression
Pg… 131 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: The Drag Racing Rage: Hot–Rodders Grow in Numbers but the Road to Respectability is a Rough One
Pg… 86 ARTICLES: Famous Men in a Century of Wars: Part III, Vol. III of “A History of the English–Speaking Peoples.” By Sir Winston Churchill
Pg… 151 ARTICLES: An Air Mystery is Solved: Reconstruction of Grand Canyon Crash Suggests Ways to Prevent the Rare but Nightmarish Cases of Collision. By Mary H. Cadwalader
Pg… 62 NATURE: Startling Leaps from Startled Devilfish
Pg… 67 ENTERTAINMENT: A Ghostly Wild One: French Singer Juliette Greco Casts an Eerie Spell Over New York Nightclub Audiences
Pg… 74 SCIENCE: Radio Broadcasts Signals from Digestive Tract
Pg… 79 MOVIES: The Bookkeepers’ Big Night Out: Paddy Chayefsky’s “The Bachelor Party”
Pg… 129 MOVIES: A Red Balloon is Star of French Film
Pg… 113 CLOSE–UP: Major General Bernard A. Schriever is Developing “the Weapon Most Likely not to be Used.” Photographs for LIFE by John Bryson
Pg… 123 SPORTS: Ballyhoo, Buffoons?and Also Baseball: Opening Day Takes on Carnival Look
Pg… 145 TELEVISION: Jobs in Cactuses for Actresses
Pg… 166 ART: 1,400 Make a Tour of Texas Art Treasures
Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Underwear Under Water
Pg… 18 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 174 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Head of the Game
