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Original LIFE Magazine — August 20, 1956
Own an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine from August 20, 1956, featuring Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace on the cover. The issue also includes coverage of stress among ministers and a photo feature revisiting the historic controversy involving Dr. Frederick Cook and Mount McKinley.
- Cover Subject: Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace
- Inside This Issue: Audrey Hepburn in War and Peace; a feature on ministers under stress; new photographs examining the Dr. Frederick Cook and Mount McKinley controversy; period news, photography, advertising and culture from 1956
- Completeness: Complete original issue, not a reproduction
- Perfect For: LIFE Magazine collectors, Audrey Hepburn fans, classic-film enthusiasts, War and Peace collectors, 1950s culture enthusiasts and vintage Americana collections
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 19 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Muffled roll for the Grand Army: the death of the last Union soldier and end of an era. By Bruce Catton
Pg… 26 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Harry Truman raises a pre–convention hubbub.
Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Suez Canal becomes setting for an International showdown.
Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A look at the world’s week.
Pg… 59 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A millionaire makes things harder for the golfers at Long Island club.
Pg… 35 EDITORIALS: Let’s get the news in Red China
Pg… 35 EDITORIALS: Don’t let the doldrums fool you.
Pg… 46 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Delights for delegates: San Francisco offers some of the nation’s best food and nightclub entertainment for Republican conventioneers. Photographed for LIFE by Nat Farbman and Loomis Dean.
Pg… 86 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The camera eye vs. Dr. Cook: after half a century, photos testify against his claim that he climbed Mt. McKinley.
Pg… 95 ARTICLE: Why ministers are breaking down: too many kinds of jobs make the clergyman’s role “impossible”. By the Reverend Wesley Shrader.
Pg… 41 NATURE: Hoods protect heads at Europe’s main bee market.
Pg… 53 MODERN LIVING: Yoga exercises give a new twist to Rhode Island society.
Pg… 62 MOVIES: Tolstoy’s titanic tale of war: “War and Peace” is made into a spectacular movie.
Pg… 81 SPORTS: Russia masses its muscle: Olympic tryouts begin with a whopping show in Moscow.
Pg… 107 PARTY: A band of jeepers go on a mountain jaunt.
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: a startling stirring of starlings.
Pg… 110 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: an inclination to the dance.
