Description
Original LIFE Magazine — July 2, 1956
LIFE Magazine July 2 1956 features Stephanie Griffin on the cover, capturing a young actress at the beginning of her career. The issue combines entertainment, literature, family history, and LIFE’s signature photojournalism in a distinctly mid-1950s package.
The cover also highlights “The Great Beer Mutiny,” previewed from a humorous novel, and “The Adams Family — First Look at the Private Papers,” giving readers a mix of popular culture, history, and contemporary reporting.
- Cover Subject: Stephanie Griffin
- Inside This Issue: Stephanie Griffin and her emerging acting career; “The Great Beer Mutiny”; the Adams family private papers; plus LIFE’s signature news reporting, photography, culture, personalities, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: Stephanie Griffin collectors, classic Hollywood and entertainment fans, American history enthusiasts, Adams family history collectors, 1950s memorabilia collectors, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves the photography, reporting, advertisements, and editorial presentation seen by LIFE readers in July 1956, making it an authentic snapshot of mid-century American entertainment, literature, and history.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 27 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Bang U.S. Boys Bite the Dust as Cowboy Gunfighter Entrenches Himself as Youth’s Hero
Pg… 39 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Khrushchev Produces a Big Coo for a Baby and a Big Send–Off for Tito
Pg… 40 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 45 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Red Steel and a Red Guest Help Nasser Play the Soviets Against the West
Pg… 52 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Tale of False Teeth: Arabs and Israelis Hold Their Fire During a Search for a lost Denture
Pg… 34 EDITORIAL: The Declaration Today
Pg… 66 PICTORIAL ESSAY: The Historic Adams Papers: LIFE Presents a First View of the Great American Family’s Archives, Which Record the Nation’s Birth and Greatness
Pg… 110 ARTICLE: “The Great Beer Mutiny”: an Episode from William Brinkley’s Comic Novel About the U.S. Navy, “Don’t Go Near the Water,” Introduces One of the Year’s Big Book Successes. Illustrated for LIFE by Mike Ramus
Pg… 55 RELIGION: A Catch for the Church: a Seattle Pastor Shows His Parishioners How to Fish and Worship on the Same Day
Pg… 59 ENTERTAINMENT: The Restyling of Stephanie Griffin: an 80–Year–Old Drama Coach Teaches a 21–Year–Old Actress How to Act Her Age
Pg… 82 FASHION: Sleekness for the Sand–Pail Set: Smart Adult Beach Styles Now Sheathe the Young
Pg… 88 SPORTS: Althea Gibson’s Odyssey: a Negro Tennis Player has Risen from Paddle Tennis in Harlem to a Top Spot at Wimbledon
Pg… 99 TRANSPORTATION: A Drive on Reckless Driving: Three States Mass Men and Machines to Curb Automobile Lawlessness
Pg… 106 EDUCATION: Sua Praemia Laudi for Harricum: Oxford Heaps Praises and an Honorary Degree on Truman
Pg… 126 PARTY: Picnics in Elegant Style Add Method to a Summer Madness
Pg… 22 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Cartoon Chronicle of the Growth of Uncle Sam
Pg… 18 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 94 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Sequel: Admission to the U.S. Makes a Happy Ending to the Wanderings of Grace Li
Pg… 132 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Stoop to Snoop
