Description
Original LIFE Magazine — November 5 1956
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published November 5 1956 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: President Dwight D. Eisenhower greeting supporters during a campaign appearance in Minneapolis shortly before the 1956 presidential election.
Inside This Issue: LIFE captures President Eisenhower’s reelection campaign and the excitement surrounding his Minneapolis appearance, along with coverage of unrest within the Soviet satellite nations and Winston Churchill’s account of the golden age of Queen Elizabeth I. The issue also includes the original news, photography, advertising, politics, culture, and features from November 5 1956.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Dwight D. Eisenhower collectors, presidential-history enthusiasts, political memorabilia collectors, 1950s history enthusiasts, LIFE Magazine collectors, and anyone looking for a meaningful gift connected to American political history.
Original LIFE Magazines are authentic issues published between 1936 and 2000.
Pg… 37 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Desperate Fight for Freedom in Red Europe
Pg… 56 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Campaign in the Homestretch: as the Candidates Make Their Concluding, Colorful Swings the Republicans See a Major Breakthrough
Pg… 65 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 71 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Stubborn Yankee Yanks a Plug, Draining a Lake and Riling Some Vermonters
Pg… 119 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A U.S. Army Missile Leaps 3,000 Miles: a Test Contraption Soars High Over Atlantic Range
Pg… 53 EDITORIAL: The U.S. and the Rebelling Satellites
Pg… 73 ARTICLES: U.N. Men in No Man’s Land: Incident 406 is the Kind of Bloody Raid that Makes Up the Israeli–Arab War, by Keith Wheeler
Pg… 144 ARTICLES: Days of Glory, Good Queen Bess, by Sir Winston Churchill, Second Part of Volume II of “A History of the English–Speaking Peoples,” Including Pictorial Essays on the Rich Life of a Great Age and on a Free Land’s Architecture. Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
Pg… 87 SCIENCE: England Gets Atomic Power, as the Queen Inaugurates the World’s First Full–Scale Commercial Nuclear Power Station
Pg… 95 MOVIES: Quaker Wild Oats: a Pious Household Kicks Up Its Heels in “Friendly Persuasion”
Pg… 103 FASHION: New Tricks in Trousers
Pg… 111 MILITARY AFFAIRS: Portable Radar Antenna Blows Up Like a Balloon
Pg… 125 CLOSE–UP: The Philosophy, the Actions of the Winningest Coach, Oklahoma’s Bud Wilkinson
Pg… 133 ANIMALS: A Cat Who Would be Chick
Pg… 136 ART: Ernst Barlach’s Piety and Rage: the Powerful Figures of a Great German Sculptor Enjoy a New Popularity After Years of Obscurity
Pg… 177 PARTY: The Maharaja of Mysore has a Last Fling Before a Pay Cut
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Kathy’s Camera Capers
Pg… 29 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 180 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Spitting Image
