Description
This original LIFE Magazine from January 29, 1951 features **Betsy von Furstenburg on Broadway** on the cover, placing readers directly inside the news, personalities, style and visual culture of 1951. The cover gives the issue immediate display appeal, while the complete magazine preserves LIFE’s original photography, reporting and advertising from the period.
Inside, the issue extends well beyond the cover with coverage including **French Communism** and **Medal of Honor**, along with LIFE’s regular mix of current events, photography, entertainment, science, culture and modern living. For collectors, historians, gift buyers and anyone researching the early 1950s, this issue offers an authentic week-by-week record of how Americans saw their world at the time.
Inside This Issue
- U.S. Sabres vs. Red Jets — Air-combat coverage from the Korean War.
- French Communism — A major photographic essay and article on communist politics in France.
- Medal of Honor — Military coverage of a newly awarded Medal of Honor.
- Audubon’s Animals — Natural-history feature inspired by John James Audubon.
- Television Fashion — Clothes designed for the new era of watching television.
- Basketball — LIFE looks at both the best and worst of the sport.
- General Walker Funeral — Coverage of General Walton Walker’s burial at Arlington.
- Betsy von Furstenberg — Broadway actress Betsy von Furstenberg appears on the cover.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 17 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Kid with the Bad Eye
Pg… 22 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Editorials: “Secretary Douglas”
Pg… 22 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Editorials: Speaking of Spain
Pg… 22 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Editorials: A Debased Budget
Pg… 23 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Flea and the Bull
Pg… 24 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: U.S. Sabres Slash Red Jets
Pg… 26 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Recruits Stampede Air Force and Navy
Pg… 35 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Traditional Washington Cycle
Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: An Old Pro Comes Back
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Echo from Buchenwald
Pg… 41 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Great–Grandmother is Honored
Pg… 44 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: General Walker is Buried at Arlington
Pg… 90 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY AND ARTICLE: French Communism
Pg… 46 NATURE: Audubon’s Animals
Pg… 53 THEATER: “Second Threshold”
Pg… 63 THEATER: S. P. Rolls Along
Pg… 67 MILITARY AFFAIRS: The Medal of Honor is Awarded Again
Pg… 78 SCIENCE: Mosquito vs. Mosquito
Pg… 80 FASHION: Clothes for Watching TV
Pg… 84 SPORTS: Basketball at Its Best?and Worst
Pg… 6 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Russian Portrait Painter Draws “Interior Landscapes”
Pg… 108 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LIFE Crosses the Simplon Pass
