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Original LIFE Magazine — December 8, 1967
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published December 8, 1967 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Pearl Bailey starring as Dolly Levi in the acclaimed Broadway production of Hello, Dolly!
Inside This Issue: LIFE celebrates Pearl Bailey’s triumphant performance in Hello, Dolly!, appearing alongside Cab Calloway in the production’s historic all-Black cast. The issue also examines Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara’s departure from the Pentagon, the drama of Masada, historian Arnold Toynbee’s views on America, and the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from December 8, 1967.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Pearl Bailey fans, Broadway and musical-theater collectors, Hello, Dolly! enthusiasts, Cab Calloway fans, 1960s history collectors, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone looking for a meaningful gift connected to 1967.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: A Role for Japan to Live Up to
Pg… 4 Opinion and Comment: Editorials: Negro Olympics Boycott is Off Target
Pg… 8–20 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Book: Henri Troyat’s “Tolstoy,” Reviewed by Webster Schott
Pg… 8–20 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Movie: “Far from the Madding Crowd,” Reviewed by Richard Schickel
Pg… 8–20 Opinion and Comment: Reviews: Theater: “There’s a Girl in My Soup,” Reviewed by Tom Prideaux
Pg… 30A Opinion and Comment: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 30B Opinion and Comment: The Feminine Eye: More Monsters, Please! By Shana Alexander
Pg… 34 The Week’s News and Features: McNamera Goes?Big Shoes for the U.S. to Fill: Exclusive White House Pictures of the Defense Secretary at Work. “You can have Anything You Want,” Said L.B.J. By Hugh Sidey
Pg… 42 The Week’s News and Features: On the Newsfronts of the World: A Requiem at Dak To. A New Dam in Pakistan. A Flood in Portugal. A Speech by De Gaulle
Pg… 49 The Week’s News and Features: Close–Up: The World’s Best–Paid Writer, Harold Robbins. “There’s no Question?I’m the Best There is.” By Thomas Thompson
Pg… 67 The Week’s News and Features: Modern Living: Sweden Tires Rocket Mail?and Ends Up in a Swamp
Pg… 72 The Week’s News and Features: Fashion Strictly from Hungary: Some Stylish Surprises from East of the Iron Curtain. Photographed by Norman Parkinson. The Girls of Budapest. By Sally Kirkland
Pg… 87 The Week’s News and Features: Medicine: For Student Doctors, It’s Sim the Deathproof Patient
Pg… 94A The Week’s News and Features: Special Report: Aden: Case History of a Terrorist Campaign. By George DeCarvalho
Pg… 101 The Week’s News and Features: Rulers: Franco of Spain Turns 75?and Goes Fishing. By Bill Wise
Pg… 108 The Week’s News and Features: Toynbee on America: The Eminent British Historian Surveys the U.S. Scene: Vietnam, Race Relations, Hippies, Dissent
Pg… 120 The Week’s News and Features: The Drama of Masada: In Israel, Archaeologists’ Finds Recall an Ancient Night of Terror. “Not a Man Failed in His Terrible Resolve.” By Marion Steinmann
Pg… 128 The Week’s News and Features: Theater: A New Company Brings a Big New Deal for “Dolly?Hello, Pearl!” A Bedrock Christian Makes the Show a Rousing Love–In. By Tom Prideaux
Pg… 138 The Week’s News and Features: Miscellany
