Pg… 3 Letters to the Editors

Pg… 6 Speaking of Pictures

Pg… 13 Steel Strike

Pg… 20 LIFE on the American Newsfront

Pg… 24 Portfolio on Paper

Pg… 30 French Holiday

Pg… 32 Social Democracy

Pg… 35 The Bastille

Pg… 37 Male Beauty

Pg… 43 Nebraska Passion Play

Pg… 44 Renoir

Pg… 49 A Pheasant is Born

Pg… 54 Palestine

Pg… 60 The Camera Overseas

Pg… 64 Movie of the Week: Knight Without Armor

Pg… 66 Private Lives

Pg… 68 LIFE Goes to a Party

Pg… 74 Pictures to the Editors