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Original LIFE Magazine — December 3, 1956
Own an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine from December 3, 1956, featuring the USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor on the cover. Published just before the 15th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, this historic issue includes LIFE’s presentation of Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy and revisits the events of December 7, 1941, with powerful photography and reporting from one of the defining moments of World War II.
- Cover Subject: USS Arizona at Pearl Harbor
- Inside This Issue: Pearl Harbor, the USS Arizona, Walter Lord’s Day of Infamy, World War II history, and LIFE’s photography and reporting from December 1956
- Completeness: Complete original issue
- Perfect For: Pearl Harbor collectors, USS Arizona and World War II history enthusiasts, military-history collectors, veterans and families, birthday and anniversary gifts, and vintage LIFE Magazine collectors
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 35 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Tortured Exodus to Liberty: Thousands of Hungarians Forsake Their Ravaged Homeland
Pg… 42 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Sudden Snow Snarls the East
Pg… 44 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Shaky Cease–Fire in Egypt
Pg… 52 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 51 EDITORIAL: Toward a Better U.N.
Pg… 57 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The Long Trail to Winter Pasture: a Montanan Moves His Herd 60 Stormy Miles
Pg… 102 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Shiny Showplace for Studies: at the Ancient University of Mexico Students Now Work on a Dazzling Campus of Color and Light. Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon
Pg… 147 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: A Stockpile of Might for U.S. in Europe. Photographic for LIFE by Michael Rougier
Pg… 131 ARTICLES: What Drives Olympic Stars, by Marshall Smith
Pg… 164 ARTICLES: “Day of Infamy”: the Untold Story of Pearl Harbor Reveals How Japanese Admirals, Spies, Airmen and Sailors Sweated Out a Mission to Rock the World. By Walter Lord
Pg… 65 SPORTS: Old Passer has His Fling at Last: Giants’ Charlie Conerly, with Some Help, Becomes a Football Hero
Pg… 73 TELEVISION: A High–Living Pooch is a Durable Star: Lassie’s Son, Lassie, Gets $100,000
Pg… 80 FASHION: Long, Vivid Wraps Glow on Till Dawn. Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks
Pg… 85 SCIENCE: A Plastic Igloo for an Eskimo
Pg… 111 SCIENCE: African Tribal Tribute to a Great Ethnologist
Pg… 89 THEATER: Double Helpings of Superb acting: Leighton and Portman are Magnificent in Four Roles in “Separate Tables”
Pg… 95 RELIGION: A Basilica for an Iowa Town: Energetic Congregation in Dyersville, Iowa, Becomes a “Pope’s Church”
Pg… 121 BUSINESS: Giveaway Hideaway: a Brewery Offers Cash of Island to a Contest Winner
Pg… 127 MEDICINE: A New Device Give Rare, Revealing Look Into a Beating Heart
Pg… 143 CLOSE–UP: An Eastern Star Looks West: Japan’s Most Popular Movie Actress, Machiko Kyo, Reaches the U.S. Screen
Pg… 159 MOVIES: A Rainmaking Rogue Brings Happiness to All in Fine Film
Pg… 185 PARTY: Revelry Celebrates a Royal European Match
Pg… 24 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: a Birth Under Water
Pg… 30 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 188 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Restraint of Trade
