Life Magazine May 2, 1955
This 1955 Life Magazine cover and feature: Hollywood's version of "Oklahoma" ; deciding the world's highest waterfall ; Bandung Conference, eye surgery on a bat ray, Winston Churchill in Sicily, enjoying retirement; Fiesta in Old Valencia, Spain; Death of a Genius: Einstein; a Bible reading marathon, Pink becomes a staple color in men's wardrobes, Campfire Girls in Kansas plant trees; "Oklahoma being filmed in new Todd-AO process; a challenging art restoration; polio inoculations get underway; the Australian frilled lizard; focus on 18th century French artist Chardin; the Busch family of St; Louis; "The World of Islam" part of Life's Great Religion series; crew team at Cornell; 200th Anniversary of Dr. Johnson's Dictionary and more. This issue of Life has 188 pages; there is a remnant of an address label on the front; some pages are rough on the edges.
Ads:
- Yummy looking Sealtest ice cream, Meadow Gold Marshmallow Mint ice cream; Down cake mix, Hires Root Beer, Revlon's Lanolite lipstick, Lane Cedar Chests, Max Factor Makeup
- Contest :Win Your Own Pony!" Win a Hotpoint Dream House, Scented Telegrams for Mother'sDay
- Campbell's Chicken and Rice Soup; Minute Rice,
- Old Spice for Men, Le Coultre Watches,
- Glidden Paint Festival of Color;
- Mercury Cars, Chevrolet cars; Ford cars,
- Brownie Movie camera; Vigorelli sewing machines; Pyrex;
- Blue Bell Wrangler Jeans
- Royal Typewriters; ad for Heublien; with Bennet Cerf and Moss Hart; cute Scottie and Westie dogs "Black and White" Scotch;
- Crystal Garland Lingerie