Description
Original LIFE Magazine — September 9 1957
This is an authentic original issue of LIFE Magazine published September 9 1957 — a real piece of American history, carefully preserved and ready to give, collect, or display.
Cover Subject: Members of a New York City street gang photographed for LIFE’s major series examining crime in the United States.
Inside This Issue: Features LIFE’s coverage of a New York street gang and the beginning of its major series on crime in America, along with a debate between parents and teenagers about going steady and the original news, photography, advertising, crime reporting, youth culture, society, politics, and features from September 9 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, New York City history enthusiasts, crime-history readers, 1950s culture collectors, photography enthusiasts, 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… 24 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Democrats Rub It in and Crow: as Congress Adjourns They Give the Administration Lumps on Capitol Hill and in Wisconsin
Pg… 32 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week
Pg… 39 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Mighty Red Missile: a Good Guess on How Russian Intercontinental Rocket Works and a Look at What the U.S. has
Pg… 34 EDITORIAL: Another Kind of Public Enemy?Jimmy Hoffa
Pg… 46 ARTICLE: Crime in the U.S.: the Cries of “Crime Wave” Grow Louder but an Effective Counterattack is Delayed Because We do not Use Modern Way of Pinning Down Facts. By Robert Wallace. The Atmosphere of Crime, Photographed by Gordon Parks. Part I of a Major LIFE Series
Pg… 94 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Debate About Going Steady: Parents, Teen–Agers Differ on a Spreading U.S. Custom
Pg… 75 CLOSE–UP: 25th Anniversaries for Two Radio Queens
Pg… 83 FASHION: Swoon Over Old Raccoons Leads to New Style in Furs
Pg… 91 ARCHITECTURE: A Red Tower to Replace Carnegie Hall
Pg… 105 BOOKS: A Trial Over Poems in San Francisco Calls Attention to a Lively Literary Colony
Pg… 113 MOVIES: A Romp of Labor and Love: Pajama Game
Pg… 116 PARTY: A Dream Trip for Tiny Heroes: Little League Champs from Mexico on a U.S. Tour
Pg… 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Album of Happier Dog Days from a Spaniel Fancier in Legal Trouble
Pg… 17 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 124 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Candid Music Critic
