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Original LIFE Magazine — September 2 1957
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published September 2 1957 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Major David G. Simons during his historic high-altitude balloon flight to the edge of space.
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s coverage of Major David G. Simons and his record-setting Manhigh II balloon flight, along with reports on the 1957 Asian flu threat, a heavyweight title fight, school integration tensions, and the original news, photography, advertising, science, aviation, medicine, politics, culture, and features from September 2 1957. Simons reached a then-record altitude of 101,516 feet during the August 1957 mission.
Completeness: Complete original issue, including the original pages, photographs, stories, and advertisements. Not a reproduction or modern reprint.
Perfect For: Birthday gifts, anniversary keepsakes, aviation and space-history enthusiasts, ballooning collectors, Cold War history readers, 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… 19 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Journey No Man had Taken Before: Balloonist Goes to the Edge of Space, Brings Back a Vivid Record. By Major David G. Simons
Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Wives React to the Blows of a Heavyweight Title Fight and Provide Most of the Drama
Pg… 35 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 43 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Integration Troubles Beset a Northern Town
Pg… 51 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Strange Case of the Sierra Survivor: Tale of Mountain Ordeal Arouses Strong Suspicions (Lt. David Steeves)
Pg… 30 EDITORIAL: Inflation is Everybody’s Enemy
Pg… 66 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: A Jouncing Tour of Kipling’s Wild Land: Inquisitive American Couple Explores the Remote Reaches of an Exotic and Fabled World. Sixth in a LIFE Series of “Great Adventures”
Pg… 113 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: The Asiatic Flu: U.S. Mobilizes to Keep 30 Million People from Succumbing to Epidemic
Pg… 85 ARTICLES: The Man Who Hit Too Many Home Runs: Dick Stuart’s Obsession Keeps Him in the Minors. By Mark Harris
Pg… 123 ARTICLES: Reform Plan for Schools: Kindergarten–Through–College Revision, Says Expert, is Only Remedy for Inefficient U.S. Education System. By Paul Woodring
Pg… 55 BUSINESS: Finless Edsels, the First Big New Car Brought Out by a Major U.S. Manufacturer in Almost 20 Years
Pg… 56 FASHION: A Bright Young Look in Paris: Skirts Get Shorter, a “Bag” Gets a Play
Pg… 100 RELIGION: World’s Leading Protestant: Dr. Franklin C. Fry Becomes Head of 50 Million
Pg… 105 MOVIES: Chaney Chills ’em Again: in Man of A Thousand Faces Cagney Re–Creates the Master
Pg… 139 PARTY: A Cruise on Canals: Noted Americans See Fresh–Water England
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: a Beauty in Her 100 Bathing Suits
Pg… 16 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 142 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Low–Level Dogfight
