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Original LIFE Magazine — December 2 1957
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published December 2 1957 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at a Moscow party
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s in-depth study of Nikita Khrushchev and the four sides of his public personality, along with coverage of the Ed Gein murder case and his Wisconsin house of horrors, Cold War politics, world affairs, crime, culture, photography, and original 1957 advertising.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Cold War history collectors, Nikita Khrushchev researchers, true-crime readers, Ed Gein collectors, classic horror and Psycho enthusiasts, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone looking for a meaningful birthday or anniversary gift from 1957.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 24 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: House of Horror Stuns the Nation: Wisconsin Town Finds a Neighbor is a Sinister Murderer. Photographic Evidence of the Sick Mind of Ed Gein. (Psycho, Silence of the Lambs) Photographed for LIFE by Francis Miller and Frank J. Scherschel
Pg… 32 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Students Revolt Against a Dance Ban: Wake Forest Rebels Challenge Taboo
Pg… 34 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 41 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Alaska Crash has Its Hero
Pg… 42 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Russia Shows Off World’s Largest Passenger Plane
Pg… 61 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Soviet Celebrates Birthday with Sputnik Pie in the Sky
Pg… 125 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Japanese Justice: Sketches Show Girard Trial
Pg… 44 EDITORIAL: A Man to be Thankful for: the Lessons of Theodore Roosevelt’s Amazing Life will Never be Out of Date
Pg… 134 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: The Cocktail Party: Hurrah? A Popular American Institution is Laid Open for Examination
Pg… 101 ARTICLES: A Treasury of Eccentrics: Other Nations Would Lock Up Men Revered in England for Their Useful Notions on Mummies, Pigs and Bats. By Nigel Dennis
Pg… 146 ARTICLES: Khrushchev, the Man Behind the Masks: Russian Expert Reveals a Dictator with Four Faces?Babbler and Killer, Shrewd Plotter, Visionary Gambler. By Edward Crankshaw
Pg… 49 ARCHAEOLOGY: Sea Grotto’s Laoco?n Statue
Pg… 57 SPORTS: Big Jump on the Ski Season: Rugged Workouts in Gym Prepare U.S. Girls for a World Contest
Pg… 165 SPORTS: Wrestling Script Gone Awry
Pg… 62 NIGHTCLUBS: Sallie Blair is the Season’s Hit Singer
Pg… 68 ANIMALS: High–Paid Llama Does Modeling in the Big City
Pg… 72 MOVIES: Warriors on Leave in a Lovely Land: Gentle Charms of Japan Unfold in Sayonara, a Heart–Warming Movie of Love
Pg… 87 CLOSE–UP: Henry J. Kaiser and His new Hawaiian Playground
Pg… 94 ART: Old Master’s Modern Heirs: the Scorned Work of Monet’s Later Years Inspires a Present Generation of Painters
Pg… 117 FASHION: A To–Do Over Muumuu: Hawaiian Dresses
Pg… 120 ARCHITECTURE: Milan Gets Its First Skyscraper
Pg… 133 TELEVISION: Conflict of Queens: Omnibus Presents Schiller’s Mary Stuart
Pg… 144 EDUCATION: School Holds Class in a Store Window
Pg… 16 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: a Crowding–In at Lincoln’s Death
Pg… 21 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 81 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Sequel: Man of Eli at Oxford
Pg… 168 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Bubble that has Ears
