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Original LIFE Magazine — December 10, 1956
Own an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine from December 10, 1956, featuring Olympic sprint champion Bobby Morrow on the cover following his remarkable performance at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. This issue also includes LIFE’s color coverage of the Olympics and continued reporting on Pearl Harbor through Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy series, combining sports history with important World War II remembrance.
- Cover Subject: Bobby Morrow — Olympic Sprint Champion
- Inside This Issue: Bobby Morrow and the 1956 Melbourne Olympics, Olympic Games in color, Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy, Pearl Harbor, and LIFE’s photography and reporting from December 1956
- Completeness: Complete original issue
- Perfect For: Olympic collectors, track and field fans, Bobby Morrow memorabilia collectors, Pearl Harbor and World War II history enthusiasts, birthday and anniversary gifts, and vintage LIFE Magazine collectors
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 34 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Spectacle of Olympian Deeds
Pg… 50 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: First Nasser Talk on Crisis: in a Photographed Interview He is Confident?and Now Warm to U.S.
Pg… 52 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 54 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Youngest Champ of the Heavyweights: Patterson, 21, Knocks Out Old Archie Moore
Pg… 56 EDITORIALS: Next Move: Clear the Canal
Pg… 56 EDITORIALS: The Dollar and the Escalator
Pg… 112 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: A New Nobility in Mobility: Trailer Life is Acquiring a Luxury Look. Photographed for LIFE by Ralph Crane
Pg… 77 ARTICLES: An Alabama Negro Family Featured in LIFE’S Series is Forced to Find a New Home. By Richard B. Stolley
Pg… 160 ARTICLES: “All Hands, Air Raid! This is no Drill!” Part II of “Day of Infamy,” by Walter Lord, Tells How Shocked Disbelief as Devastation Struck Peal Harbor was Followed by Scenes of Terror and Courage
Pg… 61 BUSINESS: The Splashiest Shopping Center in the U.S.: Birds, Art and 10 Acres of Stores All Fit Under One Minnesota Roof
Pg… 133 BUSINESS: A Giant Uranium Jackpot in New Mexico Pays Off for Many
Pg… 70 ART: North Carolina Museum Shows What a Million Dollars Buys in Good Paintings
Pg… 95 MODERN LIVING: Treetop Retreat: Family in a Big Elm Enjoys a High Life
Pg… 99 MODERN LIVING: How to Trim a Christmas Tree with Trifles
Pg… 107 TELEVISION: Now We Got Cool Dip, a Kashmirian Crooner
Pg… 123 THEATER: Handsome Soapbox for Shaw: Staging Provides Snap for “Major Barbara”
Pg… 143 CLOSE–UP: “I am Sitting on Top of a Volcano”: Vice Admiral Charles R. Brown, Commander of U.S. Sixth Fleet, Talks of His Mission
Pg… 153 FASHION: Off–to–Bed Clothes for Children
Pg… 159 ARCHITECTURE: A Christmas Steeple for a Store
Pg… 181 PARTY: An Evening in Three–Quarter Time: Bostonians Whirl Gracefully at Season’s First Waltz Night
Pg… 24 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: an “A” for Barbara in Concert Conduct
Pg… 31 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 184 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Boston Bull in the Brass
