Life Magazine January 18, 1954 – Strategy Session

Life Magazine Cover : Saltonstall, Knowland and Nixon in strategy talk with President.

• Crucial session of Congress – six pages in color.
• Great series of photos of ladies being served breakfast in bed : includes Mrs. John Vuolle of Calumet, Michigan; Mrs. Hugh Estell of Jackson, Mississippi; Mrs. Claude Jones of Panama City, Florida, Mrs. Elmer Houser of Knoxville, Tennessee; Jamie Chisam, Virginia Maxwell (Gazelle, California), Mrs. Claude Jone (Panama City, Florida).
• Follow-up letter and photo of Plymouth whale and burning it (see LIFE December 28, 1953).
• James Landis steals money directly from the US treasury.
• Great full page color Jell-o (jello) ad with a happy stork.
• Heiress Maria Isabella Patino y Borbon elopes with James Goldsmith.
• Nice two page color Mercury ad with red car.
• Cutest photos of Julie Sheldon swimming at 9 weeks old.
• Death of Death Valley Scotty, Walter Perry Scott.
• Great Falls, Montana Catholic high school, many pages and lots of photos.
• Uses for rubber in the home.
• Full page color Western Electric ad with night watchman, art by Paul Rabut.
• Round Table club of Beaumont, Texas (a relative reports to 2Neat that some of the dancers shown are Wayne Brown and Hazel Faye Brown – ♥ Thanks! ♥).
• Ester Williams water skis in movie “Easy to Love.”
• Feature on the 1954 car.
• Amazing plane crash photo – Aeronca stuck in roof in Muncy, Pennsylvania – pilot Ronald Neece was fine.
• World’s tallest basketball player is Wade Halbrook, 7 feet 3 inches.
• Paragraph and photo show how smart Forest rangers from Tacoma caught log poachers.
• Antique magazines are packed with entertainment from cover to cover!
• Check out other vintage LIFE magazines and let the fun continue.