Pg… 17 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: G.O.P. Smiles Widen with Ike’s Decision Pg… 22 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week Pg… 30 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Anguish Cruelty Compounded: the Mother of a Kidnaped Baby is Tortured by Hoaxers Pg… 32 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Greek Mourn 54 Dead in the Aegean Pg… 37 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Sights and Smells of Moscow: a Visitor’s Report by the Chief of TIME–LIFE Washington Bureau Pg… 97 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: 5,000 Girl Scouts Rough It on First National Roundup at a “Primitive Encampment” Pg… 29 EDITORIALS: The U.S. Spirit: a Moral Creed Pg… 29 EDITORIALS: The U.S. Spirit: a Will to Risk Pg… 105 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Everybody Gets in the Acting: Five Amateur Productions of the Same Play in Five Cities Show How Footlight Fever is Sweeping the U.S. Photographed for LIFE by Yale Joel Pg… 68 ARTICLE: “My Confession,” by Samuel E. Chamberlain: the First of Three Installments on the Romantic Mexican War Memoirs of a Soldier–Artist Pg… 41 RELIGION: Cutting Into Cryptic Copper: a Professor Saws Secrets Out of the 2,000–Year–Old Dead Sea Scrolls Pg… 51 FASHION: Mad Hats for Elegantly Simple Fall Dresses Pg… 57 MEDICINE: Artificail Suns for Surgery at St. L? Pg… 61 ANIMALS: New Deal for a Rare Seal Pg… 67 SPORTS: A ‘copter Ride in a Motorless Boat Pg… 93 ART: A Cast Lady Cast Off: Texas Back Rejects Zorach’s Sculpture Pg… 115 MILITARY AFFAIRS: Fraternity of Valor: Britain Honors Holders of 100–Year–Old Victoria Cross Pg… 121 PARTY: Fifth and Last in LIFE’S Series on How to Give Children’s Parties Tells Parents to Let 15–Year–Olds Runs Their Own Show Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Castles in the Sand of Italy Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors Pg… 35 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Sequel: a Black Friday for Whoopers Pg… 128 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Cow’s Tongue in a Tap