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Original LIFE Magazine — April 30, 1956
LIFE Magazine April 30 1956 features Margaret Truman and Clifton Daniel on the cover as newlyweds, shortly after their April 1956 wedding. Margaret Truman, daughter of former President Harry S. Truman, and journalist Clifton Daniel were among the most closely watched American couples of the moment.
The issue also highlights Whittaker Chambers interpreting the Communist world’s “new war for men’s minds” and coverage of “those two big weddings,” reflecting both Cold War anxieties and the intense public interest in celebrity and political families during the 1950s.
- Cover Subject: Margaret Truman and Clifton Daniel
- Inside This Issue: Margaret Truman and Clifton Daniel; Whittaker Chambers on the ideological Cold War; coverage of major weddings including Margaret Truman’s and Grace Kelly’s; plus LIFE’s signature news, photography, culture, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: Harry S. Truman collectors, Margaret Truman collectors, presidential history enthusiasts, Cold War history collectors, Grace Kelly and royal wedding collectors, 1950s memorabilia collectors, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves the reporting, photographs, advertisements, and editorial design seen by LIFE readers in April 1956, making it an authentic snapshot of American political, social, and cultural life.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: An Extra–Special Saturday for Independence, Mo.
Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Her Grace of the Movies Gets a Real Life Title (Grace Kelly’s Wedding coverage)
Pg… 49 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 173 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Reception that Was no Ball for Bulganin and Khrushchev
Pg… 52 EDITORIALS: How to be Right AND President
Pg… 52 EDITORIALS: The Luck of the British
Pg… 82 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Japan in the Spring Glows with a Soft and Subtle Beauty. Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon
Pg… 113 ARTICLES: Athletes Tell How Illicit Pay–Offs Destroy the Amateur Code. By Jack Newcombe
Pg… 148 ARTICLES: The End of a Dark Age Ushers in New Dangers: Liquidation of Stalinism at Soviet’s 20th Congress Underlines an Insidious Drive to Win Free Men. By Whittaker Chambers
Pg… 57 SPORTS: First Big League Game for Eight Boys: Seven Rookies are Nervous and to One It’s Just a Game
Pg… 64 MUSIC: Howling Hillbilly Success: Elvis Presley’s Complaint Becomes a Top Pop Tune
Pg… 69 ANIMALS: High–Flying Haylift Brings Help to Hard–Luck Horse Stranded on the Continental Divide
Pg… 75 MOVIES: Kind Dice and Death: In “The Bold and the Brave,” GI Mickey Rooney Wins?and Loses
Pg… 78 EDUCATION: Academic Private Eye: in Wisconsin School TV Sits in as a Disciplinarian
Pg… 99 FASHION: Barnard College Sophomore Anne Morris Advises the Buyer at New York’s Bergdorf Goodman
Pg… 105 SCIENCE: The Squared Egg: New Plastic Shell is Tougher and Handier
Pg… 125 INDUSTRY: Drilling Offshore, Britain Finds a Rich Underwater Source of Coal
Pg… 128 ART: Jazz Helps Sculptors Dig that Clay: a Hollywood Art Class Models to Music
Pg… 133 MILITARY AFFAIRS: Golden Domes in the Arctic: DEW Line Radar Stations Spring Up to Defend the U.S.
Pg… 141 MEDICINE: Daily Gift of Life: Student Blood Donors Keep a California Hemophiliac in School
Pg… 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: a Massed Bird Migration is Part of Photographic Display Honoring Margaret Bourke–White
Pg… 23 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 176 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Pigeon–Toed Pavement
