Original Vintage January 31 1955 Life Magazine 20 cent Spencer Tracy USSR Travel

Date released:  January 31 1955

Original cost at production: 20 cents

Dimensions:     13.5 × 10.5 × 0.5 in

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Some of the contents in this issue
OK - these are funny photos! - Spike Jones, musical clowns, spoofs with some musical humor. Five page ad for State Farm mutual insurance, provides interesting insight into insurance of the time. Travel in the USSR - photo essay. Expert evidence on horse doping - how cheaters still do it, horse racing. Prison revolt at Charlestown State in Boston, many photos of prison and participants. Nice full page color Kellogg's cereal ad with boy Freckles and his Norman Rockwell cereal box cover. The vanished splendor of Russia, great color art. Separate article, the people of Russia, part 2. Atomic powered submarine, nuclear sub "Nautilus." Nice full page color Imperial Hiram Walker's whiskey ad featuring Hans de Meiss-Teuffen, British intelligence agent (spy), art by Sloan. The rebellion in Costa Rica. Crisis of free China. Napoleonic Marie-Louise tiara is torn up - emeralds and diamonds, made into new pieces. Bangkok fair. Medicine - hand with mechanical grip. Voluptua - living goddess of love on TV, Gloria Pall. Cram camp for skiers - Sun Valley, includes Buddy WernerChristian Pravda, Mel Hoaglund, Jill Kinmont, Tom Corcoran, Norris Dunham. Awesome full-page color ad for Cadillac with red car, fancy people. Quite a photo of soccer goalie Stathis Mandalozis!

Contents:

Pg… 17 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Prison Revolt, with Lives in the Balance

Pg… 22 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Press and the President are Photographed

Pg… 24 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Submarine is "Under Way on Atomic Power"

Pg… 30 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Explosive Incident in a Sputtering War

Pg… 37 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week

Pg… 29 EDITORIAL: The Crisis of Free China

Pg… 60 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Vanished Splendor of Russia

Pg… 83 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Travel in the U.S.S.R., Photographed for LIFE by Henri Cartier–Bresson

Pg… 92 ARTICLE: Horse Doping, Still a Blot on Racing, by Dr. John McAllister Kater

Pg… 45 FASHION: Napoleonic Tiara is Torn Up

Pg… 46 INDUSTRY: America Triumphs at Bangkok Fair

Pg… 50 SCIENCE: Hand with a Mechanical Grip

Pg… 55 TELEVISION: Love on a Late Show

Pg… 69 SPORTS: Cram Camp for Skiers

Pg… 77 MOVIES: A Great Star, Spencer Tracy, Ages Gracefully

Pg… 4 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Crazy Clarinets and Outsized Trombones Make Music for Spike Jones

Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 105 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LIFE'S Party: Tito Takes in a Tiger Hunt

Pg… 108 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Angelic Guardian