Pg… 11 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Republican Show Gets Rolling Pg… 19 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Lion Gets Hot and Buggy Pg… 20 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Pipe Comes to Brooklyn Pg… 22 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Arthritics Seek Cure in Radioactive Mines Pg… 27 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: The Bombs Heard Round the World Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: LIFE On the Newsfronts of the World Pg… 30 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Seymour Relives Its Sinful Youth Pg… 43 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Who was Christine Granville? Pg… 18 EDITORIAL: The Fourth, the World and the Presidency Pg… 47 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The White House Redecorated Pg… 66 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: “The Only Fabulous Country,” Selections by Charles Laughton, Photographs by Alfred Eisenstaedt Pg… 33 AVIATION: Starfire’s Fish Pg… 39 FASHION: Arlene Dahl’s Boudoir Business Pg… 56 SCIENCE: Jet Age Whirligig Pg… 61 SPORTS: Sugar Melts in 104? Heat Pg… 78 TELEVISION: Mr. Peepers Emerges Pg… 5 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors Pg… 6 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: U.S. Gets Look at Room Where Sherlock Holmes Lived Pg… 82 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LIFE Goes to a Handicap Tennis Match Pg… 84 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Two Headed? No Headed?

Pg… 21 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Paducah Changes Its Way of Life

Pg… 26 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: G.O.P. Convention has Bitter Beginning

Pg… 28 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Democrats Prepare for Their Show

Pg… 32 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Moslems have Feast in Alien Land

Pg… 39 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Truce Beam Casts Ironic Light on a Dangerous Mission

Pg… 41 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: LIFE On the Newsfronts of the World

Pg… 45 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Rugged Rug is Put on the Road

Pg… 34 EDITORIAL: Morals and Politics

Pg… 49 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The Golden Trout, Photographed for LIFE by Edward Clark

Pg… 97 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Priest to the Campesinos, Photographed for LIFE by Wayne Miller

Pg… 106 ARTICLE: The Hangover: A Scientific Analysis, by Lincoln Barnett and Henry C. Clark

Pg… 57 MEDICINE: Wounded Soldier Gets a New Thumb

Pg… 61 MODERN LIVING: Pamper House

Pg… 69 EDUCATION: They All Tried to Build a Better Rattrap

Pg… 127 EDUCATION: A Pose of '02 is Resumed

Pg… 74 SPORTS: To Bermuda the Hard Way

Pg… 81 NIGHTCLUBS: For the Orchestra Only

Pg… 84 ART: Bargains in Color Lithographs

Pg… 89 ANIMALS: Pet Lending Library

Pg… 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: This is How You Get Your TV Views of the 1952 Chicago Conventions

Pg… 128 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LIFE Goes to a Fumble Party

Pg… 130 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Sleeper's Scene in Central Park

Pg… 14 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: New Leader's, New Zeal Get "Old" Out of G.O.P.

Pg… 31 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: LIFE On The Newsfronts of the World

Pg… 37 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Red–Taped Pirate Gold

Pg… 54 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The S.S. "United States" Takes The Blue Ribbon

Pg… 28 EDITORIAL: Ike's "Great Crusade"

Pg… 83 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Adlai Stevenson

Pg… 93 ARTICLE: The Great Lion Killer, by John A. Hunter

Pg… 42 ENTERTAINMENT: Mike's Venice

Pg… 49 SPORTS: Little Pitcher with Big Wins

Pg… 67 FASHION: Hourglass on the Beach

Pg… 74 ART: "Grandma Sharon"

Pg… 79 THEATER: Prescription for an Ailing Show

Pg… 4 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters fo the Editors

Pg… 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: These are First to Show Buildings Being Demolished by Atomic Blast

Pg… 108 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: LIFE's Visit: Mr. Bang the Flower Man

Pg… 110 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: And Then There Were 55