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LIFE

Front Cover
9 Jan 1956
128 pages
Vol. 40, No. 2
ISSN 0024-3019
Published by Time Inc
LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.
  

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Contents

Artist gets in own flashlight cartoons
8
Verner WITTING, Photography, Trick
Russians lionize Porgy cast
17
Foreign visitors (Soviet Union), United States (Cultural relations)
West's season of sorrow
24
Floods
In danger, opportunity
28
Communism, Anti-Communist movements (History)
Tibetan superhighways
33
Roads (Tibet)
Dream horse for Karen
68
Karen Ann MCGUIRE
250th birthday for Ben
72
Benjamin Franklin (American statesman and scientist.); 1706-1790
Mr Franklin, self-revealed
74
Benjamin Franklin (American statesman and scientist.); 1706-1790
Most painted American of his time
78
Benjamin Franklin (American statesman and scientist); 1706-1790 (Statues, portraits, etc)
Triumphant horse from China tomb
99
Portland Art Museum (Or.), Sculpture, Chinese

Tumble for tumbling Hope
36
Bob Hope (American comedian and actor.); 1903-2003, Joan RHODES
Richest treasure trove
38
Teddy Tucker, Diving, Submarine, Treasure trove
Significance of Tucker's find
44
Treasure trove
Academic form chart
49
Paul HORST, Student achievements
Aircraft with no wings
60
Airplanes, Jet
$1,251,200 bargain horse
65
Horses
Four score years for a great European
101
Konrad Adenauer; 1876-1967
Exclusive interview
106
Konrad Adenauer; 1876-1967
Chaplin's dancing daughter
112
Josephine CHAPLIN
I'll cry tomorrow
117
Motion picture reviews (Single works)
Sixteen-year-long lost weekend
117
Lillian Roth; 1910-1980
Birdmen's best foot forward
125
United States Air Force Academy

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