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Pg… 24 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Notable American Family and a Question of TV Ethics; the Van Dorens Wait for Charles to Speak Up on Quiz Fixing. Photographed for LIFE by Walter Sanders
Pg… 36 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 43 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: U.S. Loses a Quiet and Noble Soldier: General George Marshall Dies at 78
Pg… 38 EDITORIALS: The Blame for TV Fixes
Pg… 38 EDITORIALS: Nostalgia vs. Progress
Pg… 38 EDITORIALS: Strenthen this Weak Court!
Pg… 100 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: The First Lady of Racing: Lucille Markey's Love of Horses has Made Calumet Farm the World's Most Successful Racing Stable. Photographed for LIFE by Eliot Elisofon
Pg… 142 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Burdens a Surgeon Bears: Part III of LIFE'S Series, "You and Your Doctor." Long Tutelage Trains Him for Life–Saving Tasks. Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark
Pg… 53 ARTICLES: My $10,000 Credit Card Binge: a 19–Year–Old Boy Describes His Nationwide Free Ride. By Joseph R. Miraglia
Pg… 154 ARTICLES: The Birth of Hawaii. By James A. Michener
Pg… 61 TELEVISION: Scenes from the Astaire Evening: Fresh from Last Year's Honors, Fred Dances Back with Another TV Show
Pg… 66 ENTERTAINMENT: Peaceable Texan: 45–Foot Cowboy Looms Over Dallas Fair
Pg… 71 SCIENCE: A Deaf Child is Shocked, then Delighted at Hearing the First Sound He Remembers
Pg… 93 SCIENCE: A Rich Find of Maya Bones Turns Up in Guatemala
Pg… 75 EDUCATION: College for 11 Kids: the Schmidts Profit from a Cut–Rate Tuition Plan
Pg… 83 FASHION: Switch for a Sporty Stylist: Pucci Turns His Famous Italian Hand to Tables, Evening Garb and Vino
Pg… 115 MODERN LIVING: Downtown Gets Uplift: Kalamazoo and Toledo Turn Congested Streets Into Sparkling New Malls
Pg… 121 MILITARY AFFAIRS: A New Plane for the Army Flies Vertically on Fans, then Zooms Straight Ahead
Pg… 125 MOVIES: Rita Without Glamor: She Plays Beat–Up Outcast in Cordura
Pg… 133 MOVIES: Move Lever Errol Flynn Dies with His Boots on
Pg… 141 SPORTS: A Big Daddy from Baltimore: 6–Foot 7–Inch Eugene Lipscomb is One of the Most Awesome Sights in Sports
Pg… 172 ANIMALS: Rare New Swiss Baby: a Gorilla Born in the Basel Zoo Gets Tender Loving Care at Home
Pg… 175 PARTY: Princess Grace on a Conquest of Paris
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 18 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Baby's All–In–One Photo History
Pg… 178 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Handy Man for the Band