Description
Original LIFE Magazine — August 13, 1956
Own an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine from August 13, 1956, featuring Bavarian fashion and an updated dirndl on the cover. The issue also includes a feature on a defender of the U.S. Marine Corps and a look at what LIFE called “the wackiest team in baseball.”
- Cover Subject: Bavarian fashion — an updated dirndl
- Inside This Issue: Bavarian style and fashion; a feature on a defender of the Marine Corps; “the wackiest team in baseball”; period news, photography, advertising and culture from 1956
- Completeness: Complete original issue, not a reproduction
- Perfect For: LIFE Magazine collectors, vintage-fashion enthusiasts, Bavaria and German-culture collectors, baseball fans, military-history readers and vintage Americana collections
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 17 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Smiling Stevenson Sews It Up as Democrats Prepare for Convention and the President Answers Some Searching Questions
Pg… 24 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Specter of Polio Stalks Chicago
Pg… 26 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Egypt’s Suez Seizure Arouses the West
Pg… 31 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 34 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Rebels on a Rock Pile Break Their Legs in Prison Protest
Pg… 28 EDITORIAL: Suez?Chess and Morals
Pg… 68 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Mecca for Fun and Sunners: Blackpool Holiday Gives 7 Million Britons Their Unique “Annual Resurrection.” Photographed for LIFE by Leonard McCombe
Pg… 84 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The Pony Gallops Into U.S. Popularity: Rich Man’s Luxury Becomes a Familiar Child’s Pet
Pg… 51 CLOSE–UP: The Man Who Helped the Sergeant: Emile Zola Berman’s Plea for McKeon Brings Fame to Great, Little–Known Lawyer. By Joe McCarthy. Drawings by Franklin McMahon
Pg… 93 ARTICLE: The Boy Buffoons of Baseball: Unripe Rookies Used as Big Leaguers Brought on Hilarious Pirate Mishaps. By Marshall Smith
Pg… 39 SPORTS: Carin Cone is Best U.S. Bet for Olympic Backstroke
Pg… 43 FASHION: German and Austrian Designs Bring Schmaltz to U.S. Style. Photographed for LIFE by Mark Shaw
Pg… 63 MUSIC: A College Combo Plays One–Night Stand in Memory of Its Old Trombonist, Glenn Miller
Pg… 77 ART: Portrait Painting Becomes a Big Business
Pg… 107 PARTY: A Sales Convention Grants a Wealth of Wishes
Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Camera in a Sea Tomb
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 110 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Good Head for Machinery
