Description
Original LIFE Magazine — July 9, 1956
LIFE Magazine July 9 1956 features an American beauty and diplomat’s daughter wearing a Spanish beret on the cover, capturing the international style and youthful elegance associated with LIFE’s mid-1950s photography.
The issue also highlights top U.S. athletes qualifying for the Olympics and author Robert Penn Warren returning to the South, with LIFE describing a region in turmoil. Together, the stories combine fashion, sports, literature, politics, and American culture during the summer of 1956.
- Cover Subject: American Beauty and Diplomat’s Daughter in a Spanish Beret
- Inside This Issue: Leading U.S. athletes qualifying for the Olympics; Robert Penn Warren returning home to a changing South; plus LIFE’s signature news reporting, photography, culture, sports, personalities, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: 1950s fashion collectors, Olympic history enthusiasts, Robert Penn Warren readers, Southern history collectors, vintage photography fans, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves the reporting, photography, advertisements, and editorial presentation seen by LIFE readers in July 1956, making it an authentic snapshot of mid-century American sports, literature, style, and social change.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 20 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A U.S. Olympic Team is Formed
Pg… 35 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Turmoil in Poland
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 44 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Order of the Garter for Two Prime Ministers
Pg… 47 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Governors Play and Politicak at Atlantic City
Pg… 30 EDITORIAL: The President and Foreign Aid
Pg… 52 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Babies in the Summer: Young Animals Get Ready for Their Wild World. Photographed for LIFE in Color by William Vandivert
Pg… 70 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: A Young Painter Striving to Find Himself: Harry Jackson Chooses the Hard Way to Develop His Art. Photographed for LIFE by Michael Roughier
Pg… 98 ARTICLE: Divided South Searches Its Soul: Robert Penn Warren Records the Turmoil Over Integration. Illustrated for LIFE by Walter Richards
Pg… 41 EDUCATION: Pen Pals Face to Face at Last: U.S. Students Visit a French School They have Befriended for 10 Years
Pg… 59 FASHION: A Big Bulging Hairdo is Summer’s Suggested Replacement for the Outsize hat
Pg… 65 MOVIES: Stolen: One Locomotive. A Famous Yankee Spy Trick Makes a Civil War Thriller
Pg… 85 LAW AND ORDER: Detroit Policemen Protect Themselves with Armor
Pg… 91 MILITARY AFFAIRS: A Close Look at the Russian Air Force: First Views of the New Planes Which U.S. Air Chief General Twining Saw at the Moscow Air Show. Photographed for LIFE by Hank Walker
Pg… 117 PARTY: A Spanish Rose for Beatrice: Madrid Applauds the U.S. Ambassador’s Popular Daughter in Her Debut
Pg… 13 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Ice–Conditioned Palace in a Greenland Lake
Pg… 120 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: the Eye of a Shadow
