Description
Original LIFE Magazine — May 7, 1956
LIFE Magazine May 7 1956 features an inventive “Sunbather’s Lazy Susan for an Ingenious House” on the cover, capturing the playful optimism, design experimentation, and suburban lifestyle of mid-1950s America.
The issue also highlights LIFE features on “All About Your Feet”, including what readers should know about foot health, and “The Need for Better Scientists — and MIT’s Answer,” reflecting the era’s growing emphasis on science, education, and technology.
- Cover Subject: Sunbather’s Lazy Susan for an Ingenious House
- Inside This Issue: Mid-century home design and leisure; “All About Your Feet”; the need for better scientists and MIT’s response; plus LIFE’s signature news reporting, photography, culture, personalities, and period advertising from 1956.
- Completeness: Complete original issue of LIFE Magazine, not a reproduction.
- Perfect For: Mid-century modern collectors, 1950s Americana enthusiasts, architecture and home-design fans, science and technology collectors, birthday gifts, and collectors of original LIFE Magazines.
This original issue preserves the photography, reporting, advertisements, and editorial presentation seen by LIFE readers in May 1956, making it an authentic snapshot of mid-century American design, lifestyle, science, and culture.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: British Resist Charm of B & K and there is a Historic Blow–Up
Pg… 34 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 36 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Terrible Confession is Ruled Voluntary During Trial for Dynamiting Plane
Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Supreme Court Ruling and a Mix–Up Over Bus Mixing
Pg… 45 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Nine Russian Sailors Now are Four and Kidnapping is Charged
Pg… 48 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Great Berlin Tunnel Mystery: Reds Accuse the U.S. of Wire–Tap and Germans Applaud It
Pg… 53 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Colorado Workmen Brace a Breath–Taking Bridge
Pg… 65 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Jackie Cochran’s Airborne Campaign: Aviatrix Flies Into California Politics
Pg… 40 EDITORIALS: The “Totality” of NATO
Pg… 40 EDITORIALS: Is Thrift Un–American?
Pg… 104 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Pride of Dresden is Seen Anew as Russians Restore Famous Art Masterworks to German Museum
Pg… 135 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: How Massachusetts Institute of Technology Seeks Quality Rather than Quantity in Students, and President Killian Tells How U.S. Can Win the Scientific Manpower Race. Photographed for LIFE by Gjon Mili
Pg… 115 ARTICLES: The Case for a Friend in Need: U.S. Industrialist Clarence B. Randall Foresees a Bright Future for Turkey
Pg… 168 ARTICLES: The Wretched Lot of the Poor Foot: Dismaying Evils Plague Ill–Shed Humanity. By Richard Carter
Pg… 59 TELEVISION: Wall Street Honors a 10–Year–Old Who Won $100,000 TV Quiz
Pg… 71 MODERN LIVING: Dream House in Palm Springs, is a Push–Button Paradise
Pg… 122 MODERN LIVING: How to Fare Well on the Nation’s Surplus Bounty
Pg… 83 ANIMALS: U.S. Air Force Shoes Sore Paws of Its Sentry Dogs
Pg… 89 SCIENCE: Arizona Convicts Test a Chemical for Tanning Tender Skins Safely
Pg… 95 FASHION: A Flurry of Feminine Ruffles Revives an Expensive Old Fashion
Pg… 102 SPORTS: Johnny on the Spot: Even World’s Great Heavyweights Cannot Lift 109–Pounder
Pg… 155 THEATER: Bert Lahr, in the Middle of a Riddle, has a Comical Wait for Godot
Pg… 161 MOVIES: East and West Meet in John Wayne
Pg… 186 PARTY: Energetic 9–Year–Olds are Happy in Competitive Play. Part III in LIFE’S Series of Children’s Parties
Pg… 15 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 20 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Artist Jamieson’s Pen as a Camera
Pg… 194 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Yacht in a Yard
