Description
Original LIFE Magazine — June 25, 1956
LIFE Magazine June 25 1956 features Mickey Mantle on the cover, identified by LIFE as “The Remarkable Mickey Mantle.” The issue captures Mantle during one of the most important seasons of his career and is especially desirable for collectors of the New York Yankees, baseball history, and 1950s sports memorabilia.
The cover also highlights an intimate picture report on Tito, described as “Again a Russian Hero,” along with political coverage of Lyndon Johnson, presented as a Democratic dark-horse candidate who might unite the party.
- Cover Subject: Mickey Mantle — “The Remarkable Mickey Mantle”
- Inside This Issue: Mickey Mantle and New York Yankees baseball; an intimate picture report on Tito; Lyndon Johnson as a Democratic dark-horse candidate; plus LIFE’s signature news, photography, sports, politics, culture, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: Mickey Mantle collectors, New York Yankees fans, baseball memorabilia collectors, 1950s sports enthusiasts, Lyndon Johnson collectors, Cold War history readers, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves the photography, reporting, advertisements, and editorial presentation seen by LIFE readers in June 1956, making it an authentic snapshot of mid-century American sports, politics, and international affairs.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 20 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Tito as a Soviet Hero?How Times have Changed! Photographed for LIFE by Lisa Larsen
Pg… 32 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Proud Day for a Dying Mother: She Sees Movie of Her Son Graduating No. 1 at Annapolis
Pg… 34 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Human and Electronic Brains Combine to Produce a Big H–Bomb Miss
Pg… 37 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Middlecoff Steadies Out the Pressure and Emerges as the U.S. Open Golf Champion
Pg… 39 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 42 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Foolhardy Men on a Raft Meet Tragedy in the Rapids of the Colorado
Pg… 31 EDITORIAL: The Mess in Moscow Deepens
Pg… 74 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Mirror of Venice: a Camera Catches Enchantment of the City’s Shadow and Shimmer. Photographed by Ernst Haas
Pg… 99 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: A Prodigy of Power: Mickey Mantle Comes of Age as a Slugger
Pg… 111 CLOSE–UP: Is Texas’ Lyndon Johnson a Kingmaker or a Dark Horse? His Convention Role, as the Candidate Who Wants to Name the Winner, is Told in Fourth Article in LIFE Series on Democratic Candidates
Pg… 50 MOVIES: John Huston Makes Stirring Movie of “Moby Dick” and in “How to Read ‘Moby Dick,’ ” Samuel Eliot Morison Charts Course Past Hard Passages of a Great Novel
Pg… 109 SEQUEL: Bridle Murphy Search Ends at Last: She Was in Chicago All the Time
Pg… 71 MODERN LIVING: Playhouse of Straws: they are Used in New Children’s Construction Kit
Pg… 87 MEDICINE: A Hospital Chain Brings Joy to John L.: U.M.W. Boss Sees Realization of His 10–Year Dream
Pg… 93 THEATER: A Better Deal for Nelle: Young Dancer, Whose Career was Stalled, Finally Breads Into Broadway
Pg… 95 FASHION: Shoe with a Change of Heel can be Altered for Day or Evening Wear
Pg… 127 PARTY: Adenauer Unbends by Degrees in U.S.
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Ed Sullivan Takes Cakes
Pg… 16 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 130 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Heifer in a Hole
