Life Magazine Lot of 4 Full Month of December 1959 7, 14, 21, 28
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Life Magazine December 7, 1959 Shah Fiancee Farah Diba
Pg… 24 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Big and Tinseled To–Do of the Shah's Betrothal
Pg… 30 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: "King" Alan Freed Departs the Airways Amid Payola Talks and the Tears of His Fans
Pg… 32 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Latest in a Series of Art Finds Casts Doubt on the Tricky Business of Authenticating Old Masters
Pg… 43 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: "Terrible" Touhy is Released and His Feud with "Jake the Barber" is Renewed
Pg… 51 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Mikoyan's Mexican Mix: a Vodka Man from Russia Tries Tequila with Conspicuous Results
Pg… 38 EDITORIAL: Russian Bear vs. Chinese Dragon
Pg… 94 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Famous Cartoonists Share a Silver Jubilee: Al Capp's Rowdy Wit and Fascinating Females are Matched by Milt Caniff's High Adventure and Ever–Luscious Ladies
Pg… 136 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: A Skilled Grower's Fat Surplus: Part II of "The Farm Problem." Photographed for LIFE by Otto Hagel
Pg… 63 ARTICLES: Soviets' Anti–Semitic Drive Results in Suppression and Violence. By Patricia Blake, LIFE Correspondent
Pg… 148 ARTICLES: Salute to the Deeds of Non–Ugly Americans: a Controversial Novel's Authors Tell of Devoted People Who Selflessly Help the World's Needy. By William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick
Pg… 57 NIGHTCLUBS: Hands at the Heart of a Song: They Belong to Diahann Carroll
Pg… 76 EDUCATION: A Double A in Biology: Tenth–Grader's Study of Chicken Embryos Produces Some Classic Pictures
Pg… 90 EDUCATION: Worldly Lesson from the New Prof: Eleanor Roosevelt Leads a Politics Seminar at Brandels University
Pg… 105 EDUCATION: Parents Teaching for a Day Learn a Lesson the Hard Way: They have Their Disciplinary Hands Full
Pg… 85 MODERN LIVING: Christmas Stars are Made from Soda Straws
Pg… 101 ART: A Rare Find from the Middle Ages: Boston Gets a 13th Century French Statue
Pg… 113 HORTICULTURE: A Foolproof Method for Growing Subtropical Plants Indoors in Wintertime
Pg… 121 SPORTS: Nine Sticky Fingers and One that Goes Askew Make Baltimore's Ray Berry's the Surest Hands in Pro Football
Pg… 127 THEATER: A Girl Possessed by a Sinful Soul: Old Jewish legend is Updated in Paddy Chayevsky's Hit, The Tenth Man
Pg… 135 BUSINESS: Bank's $4 Million Booboo
Pg… 164 BUSINESS: Bellman Hops to the Top as Manager of a Detroit Hotel
Pg… 167 PARTY: Shirley MacLaine Throws a Spoof Party for Charity
Pg… 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Spectacle of a Happy Hippo Habit
Pg… 19 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 170 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Rear View at an Art Show
Life Magazine December 14, 1959 Kilauea Iki Volcano in Hawaii
Pg… 26 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: What Happened the Night the Dam Burst: Survivors Tell of a Tragedy on the French Riviera. Text by David Snell and Gabrielle Smith
Pg… 32 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A New Round in the TV Row: Investigators Will Ask if a Slavish Dependence on Ratings Makes So Many Programs Mediocre
Pg… 42 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Ike's Rainy Roman Holiday: the President's Trip to Europe and Asia has an Upbeat Beginning in a Downpour
Pg… 44 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Mickey Cohen, His Dog and a Blonde: the Hoodlum Claims to be Just Innocent Bystander at a Murder in Los Angeles
Pg… 55 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Return of the Wanderer from an Idyl: After taking His Kids on a Schooner to the South Seas, Sterling Hayden Faces a Custody Battle Back in Hollywood
Pg… 63 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 41 EDITORIAL: A Twelfth Month Look Around
Pg… 72 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The Papers of Benjamin Franklin, Part II: He was an Incorrigible Civic Booster and Helped Make Philadelphia the Leading Colonial City. Photographed for LIFE by Andreas Feininger
Pg… 101 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: The Farm Problem, Conclusion. Too Many Farmers Crowd the Field but Solutions are Posed by Experts, Including Some Presidential Hopefuls
Pg… 112 ARTICLES: The Astronauts Get Their Prodigious Chariot: the Spacemen's Cramped Capsule Almost Thinks for Itself. By Don Schanche, LIFE Staff Correspondent
Pg… 49 ANIMALS: Gentle Bristling Little Hedgehogs
Pg… 60 FASHION: Lavish Lounging Pants are the Latest Mode for Dressing Up
Pg… 68 MOVIES: A Job as Star for Ingemar
Pg… 93 SPORTS: A Rough Trio of Linebackers with Feminine Nicknames Lead the Giants
Pg… 133 PARTY: Somerset Maugham Visits Japan and Goes on a Giddy Geisha Gambol
Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 21 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Fiery Fury in the Sky
Pg… 136 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: a Pigeon's Pretty Pass, Alas
Life Magazine December 21, 1959 Presidents Eisenhower and Ayub in Pakistan
Pg… 16 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: In a Quest for Peace, Our President's Triumphant Pilgrimage. Photographed for LIFE by Paul Schutzer, Wayne Miller, John Dominis and Larry Burrows
Pg… 28 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week
Pg… 35 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Two Scrappy 75–Year–Old Democrats, Harry Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt, Argue Publicly About "Hot–House Liberals" at Her Birthday Party
Pg… 38 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: London Alit with Luxury: Prosperity Brings Christmas Opulence to Regent Street
Pg… 30 EDITORIALS: Ike's Trip is High Politics
Pg… 30 EDITORIALS: Catholics and U.S. Democracy
Pg… 42 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Resplendent Works in an Age of Burning Faith: Early Christians Enriched the Churches of Ravenna with Mosaic Masterworks. Photographed, in Color, for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel
Pg… 67 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Target: Venus?there May be Life there Because Balloon–Borne Scientists Discover Water Vapor
Pg… 78 ARTICLE: Should a Catholic be President: It Depends on His Attitude Toward the "Official" View, Says Protestant Bishop. By The Right Reverend James A. Pike
Pg… 59 MOVIES: Wonders Down at the Earth's Core are Plumbed for Fun and Fantasy
Pg… 61 THEATER: Stars Go on the Road?Katharine Cornell with Shaw and Bette Davis with Sandburg
Pg… 74 BOOKS: A Best–Seller's Folksy Medicine: Country Doctor's Book Prescribes Honey and Vinegar and Provokes a Controversy
Pg… 86 PARTY: Christmas Coming–Out for Shut–Ins: Rhode Island Invalids have a Heart–Warming Holiday Celebration
Pg… 8 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Tiny Fleet in Mass Flight
Pg… 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors
Pg… 92 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Two–Faced Flamingo
Life Magazine December 28, 1959 Special Issue: The Good Life
Cover… Double Issue of the Good LIFE – Begin Here and Have a Happy Trip… From 1890 to 1975: Leisure of the Classes and Masses
Pg… 12 THE GAY OLD DAYS Five artists paint memorable episodes– some rowdy and some classy like the yacht party of J. P. Morgan (left)–of the old days when leisure was a luxury that belonged to a well–heeled few
Pg… 36 WHAT BROUGHT THE CHANGE Startling color photographs dramatize one important source of America's leisure: the introduction of automated production (left) which brings with it more and cheaper goods and better jobs
Pg… 76 THE CELEBRITIES' LEISURE From playing French horn to collecting campaign buttons, some well–known Americans like Ralph Bunche set an example by putting spare time to the use that refreshes
Pg… 69 A $40 BILLION BILL FOR FUNLIFE Staff Writer Robert Coughlan examines the nation's huge leisure business and finds that everything from worm–raising to water–skiing helps bolster the U.S. economy to the tune of $40 billion a year
Pg… 85 WHAT'S YOUR LEISURE RATING? Russell Lynes, a witty observer (with an assist by Artist Mike Rarnusl. charts a new type of class system–from aristocrat to peasant–based on how you spend leisure
Pg… 53 SATURDAY A.M. ON ELM The big leisure bonus is Saturday morning and LIFE turns six photographers loose in two U.S. Elm Streets to record the important news story of the precious day off
Pg… 90 DO IT YOURSELF High labor costs make home handymen think they are having fun and saving money
Pg… 62 EDITORIAL Leisure can mean a new civilization. By using it, Americans can raise unparalleled standards of excellence
Pg… 64 PASSING OF A PRIVATE PLAY YARD A last stronghold of old–time elegance is sold
Pg… 93 AMF Comes to Shelby Ohio
Pg… 96 GREAT U.S. PLAYGROUND Pure physical fun is a prime outlet lot leisure. Name your pleasure and you will find it in the world's busiest arena spectacularly displayed here in a dazzling portfolio of color
Pg… 117 JUST A BIG RAT RACE? Novelist Sloan Wilson, an expert on social foibles, laments the guilt, fear and discontent that drives many of us to misspend a legacy that we've fought so hard to get
Pg… 125 HOW TO PLAY WITH THE KIDS A St. Louis father shows it can be sensibly enjoyed
Pg… 130 FOR ESKIMOS, NO THANKS Life in Miami is strictly for the Arctic terns
Pg… 132 GOOD DEEDS–WITH GRACE Up to her ears in good works, a Birmingham housewife (left) shows how energy, good– will and brains can make a city a livelier, kinder and more rewarding place to live
Pg… 153 LOAFING: TWO POINTS OF VIEW It's a hard art to master, says Nathaniel Benchley; but, from a woman's point of view, where's all that leisure? asks Phyllis McGinley
Pg… 161 AFTER RETIREMENT, WHAT? What happens when they've given you the gold watch and the hearty handclasp? A Cincinnati railroad man finds he has to work out a way to enjoy his enforced leisure
Pg… 168 WHAT'S WITH 1975? Some experts in planning for the future offer a practical prophecy on what's in store for us–and some others warn us to watch out for pitfalls
Pg… 174 LOVE, THE ELIXIR Whether it's a mother's or a teen–ager's or husband's or wife's, love can be a big beneficiary of our leisure. Six photographers portray in color its special meanings
Pg… 185 TOMORROW'S TRIP TODAY In a tiny whirlybird that gives a hint of how we all may vacation one day, a California couple takes off for the most varied, traffic– free weekend you ever saw
Pg… 139 CULTURE IN THE SUMMERTIME In sylvan retreats millions mix fun and artistic creativity
Pg… 148 THE JOYS OF SOLITUDE "When you are alone you get down to fundamentals," says Olaus Murie, a famous naturalist and 20th Century Thoreau, who finds the quiet wilderness a necessity
