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Table of Contents – LIFE Magazine March 17 1952
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 24 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: These Show Some Exotic Observers Who Stole Sun’s Show During Eclipse
Pg… 30 EDITORIALS: “The Big Picture”: It’s Black
Pg… 30 EDITORIALS: Another Subsidy? Alas It’s Needed
Pg… 31 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Ike Campaigns – But It’s for NATO
Pg… 37 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Kang Koo Ri Displays a New Face
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Washington Probers Hear the Olga Boat Song
Pg… 40 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Grandstand Collapses in Baltimore
Pg… 40 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Ham Bone Investment Pays $2 Million
Pg… 41 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Shots Complicate $200,000 Will Case
Pg… 42 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: “Zindabad!” for Mrs. Roosevelt
Pg… 44 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: “Universal Remedy” Brings a Reaction
Pg… 47 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: LIFE On the Newsfronts of the World
Pg… 55 AVIATION: Test Planes Without Test Pilots
Pg… 58 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Tourists Take Up Mexico’s Pet Volcano
Pg… 63 EDUCATION: School Gets Ten Volumes on “Ten Nights”
Pg… 67 CLOSE–UP: Golconda on E. 51st, by Herbert Brean
Pg… 87 ART: New Crop of Painting Proteges
Pg… 92 FASHION: Wandering Waist
Pg… 95 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Storybook Playground, Photographed for LIFE by Wayne Miller
Pg… 101 NIGHTCLUBS: Prettiest Showgirl on Broadway
Pg… 111 SPORTS: Big Night for Nervous Novice
Pg… 117 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Chaplin at Work, Photographed for LIFE by W. Eugene Smith
Pg… 131 MODERN LIVING: California Home Styles Invade Rest of U.S.
Pg… 136 ARTICLE: They Don’t Play Baseball Any More, by Ty Cobb
Pg… 154 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LIFE Goes to the Coronation of a Texas Queen
Additional Index – LIFE Magazine March 17 1952
Eclipse in Africa and Asia. Full page color McGregor Sportswear ad with golfer Cary Middlecoff, art by Hiram Rubin. Nice full page photo of the little boy Kang Koo Ri (he had appeared in the 1952 Protestant United Appeal ad). Ike campaigns for NATO. Test planes without pilots – XP5Y-1 seaplane. Olga Konow and her family, Oilboat Olga, and tanker sales. Photo of the collapse of a grandstand in Baltimore, 275 hurt. The smart robbers brought a ham bone for dog, got away with more than $2 million, La Vere Redfield house. Mexico’s volcano Paricutin – great photos. Full page Color ad for Jell-o (Jello) early art by Hank Ketcham, who is famous for Dennis the Menace. Golconda on East 51st street, feature on Henry Winston – gem collector, with color photos of his amazing gems, second only to British royal family. New art talent in New York – Charles Oscar, Robert Knipschild, Jonah Kinigstein, Wallace Reiss, Carroll Cloar and Herbert Katzman. Oakland California – Children’s Fairyland playground. 13 year old boxer – Francis Schulte. Charlie Chaplain directs Limelight – photos. They ruined baseball, written by Ty Cobb. Debutante Gloria Slaughter of Dallas – party photos. Nice full page color Canadian Club whiskey ad with mountain climbing scenes, including ice axe, Walter Gonnason leaping crevasse and more.