Description
Original LIFE Magazine — May 13 1957
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published May 13 1957 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Bert Lahr
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s coverage of Bert Lahr and the special feature “Seeking the Magic Mushroom,” along with the original news, photography, advertising, entertainment coverage, cultural history, science reporting, politics, and features from May 1957.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Birthday gifts, anniversary keepsakes, Bert Lahr collectors, classic Hollywood readers, cultural history collectors, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone who wants a meaningful gift from a specific date or year.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 32 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Navy’s “Good Drill” Cools Off Jordan’s Crisis
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Fiery Career’s Quiet Close: the Death of Senator McCarthy
Pg… 40 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Floods Break Long Drought: Midwest and Southwest Farmers Turn to the Land with New Hope
Pg… 42 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 54 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Very Close One for Costello
Pg… 59 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Frank Lloyd Wright Picks a Fight in Arizona: Architect Scorns a Skyscraper and Offers a Weird Substitute
Pg… 62 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: “Mayflower II” Sails Westward with a Cargo of History
Pg… 185 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Interrupted Inaugural: Nicaragua has Formal Rite but no Fun
Pg… 46 EDITORIAL: U.S. Business: Golden Mood
Pg… 100 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Seeking the Magic Mushroom: a New York Banker Goes to Mexico’s Mountains to Participate in the Age–Old Rituals of Indians Who Chew Strange Growths that Produce Visions. Part III in LIFE’S Series of “Great Adventures.” Seeking the Magic Mushroom By R. Gordon Wasson
Pg… 147 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Getting and Spending the Teen–Age Allowance: Youth’s Money Runs Into Billions of Dollars and a Lot of Family Debate. Photographed for LIFE by Nina Leen
Pg… 156 ARTICLE: Diem, the Tough Miracle Man of Vietnam: America’s Newly Arrived Visitor has Roused His Country and Routed the Reds. By John Osborne
Pg… 51 SPORTS: Second Choice’s Sudden Luck in Derby
Pg… 135 SPORTS: Third Encore for Sugar Ray, Who Wins Championship Again
Pg… 69 TELEVISION: Tiny Queen for a Day: a Baby’s Woes Help Win Big TV Contest
Pg… 74 ART: Women Artists in Ascendance: Young Group Reflects Lively Virtues of U.S. Painting
Pg… 79 EDUCATION: College Amid Alien Trees: 150–Year–Old Hungarian Forestry School is Transplanted to Canada
Pg… 90 ANIMALS: Monkey is a Curious Companion for a Cow
Pg… 97 MILITARY AFFAIRS: The Oldest Airman: 72–Year–Old Master Sergeant Helps Run Air Force Museum
Pg… 122 THEATER: Bedroom Bedlam with Bert Lahr
Pg… 130 SCIENCE: Drug Promises Immunity to Radiation
Pg… 143 MOVIES: Huge Props Shrink the Shrinking Man
Pg… 179 FASHION: Trio’s Dual Roles: Off–Duty Jobs Divert Successful Sportswear Makers
Pg… 16 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 21 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Recess Time by the Teacher
Pg… 87 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Sequel: a Tradition Continued by Dancing Master’s Wife
Pg… 188 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: an Oompah Umbrella
