Life Magazine Lot of 4 Full Month February 1956 6, 13, 20, 27 Civil Rights Era

Pg… 22 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: South Rises Again in Campaign to Delay Integration Pg… 28 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Graph and Flares Shed Light on Disastrous California Train Wreck Pg… 35 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Congress has a Gassy Debate Over Natural Gas Rates Pg… 38 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: Finns Repossess as Russians Surrender a Lease Pg… 43 THE WEEK’S EVENTS: A Look at the World’s Week Pg… 30 EDITORIALS: An Artist Confined Pg… 30 EDITORIALS: Artists at Liberty Pg… 57 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: Wild Birds in Flight: Color Pictures Made at 5,000th of a Second by a Newark, N.Y. Nurseryman Win $5,000 First Prize in LIFE–P.S.A. Essay Contest Pg… 112 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAYS: First of a New LIFE Series, How to Give Children’s Parties: Celebrating the Birthday of a 4–Year–Old, a Connecticut Mother Uses New Rules Drawn Up by the Director of the Gesell Institute and Finds Simplicity Brings Success. Photographed for LIFE by Nina Leen Pg… 126 ARTICLES: Tough Decisions in Korean Crisis: In Part III of the Truman Memoirs the Former President Describes Tense Top–Level Debates in Washington While Friction Developed with MacArthur Pg… 97 ARTICLES: The Commuters’ Rebellion: Patrick McGinnis, as the New Haven Railroad Chief, Achieves a Unique Peak of Unpopularity. By Robert Wallace Pg… 47 SEQUEL: Social Note from Moscow: “Porgy” Actors have Russian Wedding Pg… 50 FASHION: Switches on Secretary’s Suit: Eva Marie Saint’s Outfit in a New Movie Makes a Whole Week’s Wardrobe Pg… 65 THEATER: “Time Limit!” Studies the Dilemma of Korean Turncoats Pg… 73 SCIENCE: A New Three–Dimensional Fabric, Trilok, Puts to Use the Shrinking Tendencies of a Plastic Pg… 80 ART: Reginald Marsh: Swarming City Scenes by a “U.S. Hogarth” Go on a Year–Long Tour of the Country Pg… 90 MOVIE: A New Star Enlivens Film Revival of Musical Favorite, “Carousel” Pg… 111 ARCHITECTURE: A Japanese Hotel, Its Sixth Story on Tracks, Spins Its Top Pg… 122 MODERN LIVING: Sculptor Neguchi Transforms an African Stool Into Modern Furniture for Teeterers Pg… 10 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: A Mirage in the Artic Pg… 140 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Misellany: Pedaling a Fiddle

Pg… 26 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: In Winter Olympics, Russians Overshadow Everyone but the One–Man Slam Skier of Austria

Pg… 36 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week

Pg… 40 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Balloon Goes Up and the Candidates Soar Among the Democrats

Pg… 45 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Washington Extends Welcome for Old Friend Eden and Joins Him in a Pledge for Peace

Pg… 47 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Como's Rapid Rise Arouses Gleason's Network?and Gleason

Pg… 53 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: An 8–Year–Old French Prodigy Settles a Furor by Writing a Poem

Pg… 42 EDITORIAL: A Hole in NATO's Dike

Pg… 66 ARTICLES: The Recall of General MacArthur: In Part IV of the Memoirs Harry Truman Tells of Clashes Over Policy that Led to the Recall When "I Could no Longer Tolerate His Insubordination"

Pg… 94 ARTICLES: General MacArthur Makes His Reply: He Accuses Truman of "Fallible" Memory and Dodging a Court of Inquiry by Waiting Until Now to Bring Up "This Belated Claim of Insubordination"

Pg… 58 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: Lusty Art of a Lost People: Italy's Ancient Etruscans Come Boldly to Life in the Works They Left Behind. Photographed for LIFE by Dmitri Kessel

Pg… 113 PICTORIAL ESSAYS: What I Like About Living in San Francisco: Written and Photographed for LIFE by N.R. Farbman

Pg… 56 MOVIES: Benny Goodman is Heard but not Seen as Steve Allen Does the Clarinetist's Story on Film

Pg… 125 ANIMALS: Wild Beasts at a Milwaukee Banquet Help Stock New Zoo

Pg… 131 THEATER: Artist Jacob Landau's Drawings Form a Colorful Background for Photos of Margaret Sullavan's Double Life in "Janus"

Pg… 137 NIGHTCLUB: Her Club Contract Keeps Dancer Neile Adams from a Big Job

Pg… 143 PARTY: Brazil's New President has a Public Palace–Warming

Pg… 14 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: Rare Photograph Shows Assassination Plotters Present at Lincoln's Inauguration

Pg… 19 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 146 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: A Draft Aft

Pg… 28 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: South Frets Over the Case of Miss Lucy, a Test of Integration in the School System

Pg… 34 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Look at the World's Week

Pg… 36 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: Nigeria Parades for Queen Elizabeth

Pg… 49 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: A Collapsible Rubber Plane Takes the Air

Pg… 50 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: An Attack on a Peacemaker in France's Troubled Relations with Algeria

Pg… 52 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Cause of the International Row Over Balloons

Pg… 57 THE WEEK'S EVENTS: The Big Diamond: Jeweler Harry Winston Wonders what to do with an $8.4 Million Stone

Pg… 44 EDITORIAL: The Feud and Its Ghost

Pg… 109 PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY: Washington's Trek to Fame: His Greatness Began with a Bitter Winter's Trip from Virginia to the Ohio Valley in 1753 Over a Route Which in Many Places Remains Unchanged. Photographed for LIFE by Peter Stackpole

Pg… 118 ARTICLES: A Candid Analysis of the '52 Campaign: In Part V of His Memoirs, Harry Truman Tells How "Millions of Votes" May have Been "Needlessly Sacrificed" by Stevenson and Describes a Tense Postelection Meeting with Eisenhower

Pg… 75 ARTICLES: H.L. Mencken: His Last Gibes and Brickbats. Selections from Recently Found Notebooks, Soon to Appear as "Minority Report"

Pg… 64 FASHION: New Color and Patterns Cure Leather's Ruggedness. Photographed for LIFE by Gordon Parks

Pg… 70 SCIENCE: Big Flesh Market for Physicists: 300 Companies Try to Lure Scientists Assembled for Convention in New York

Pg… 80 MOVIES: The Dark History of a Wicked King: Olivier Makes a Brilliant Film Version of Shakespeare's "Richard III"

Pg… 93 MILITARY AFFAIRS: Oscar the Airborne Mouse Jumps with His Master in Germany

Pg… 101 ART: Dresden's Great Art Returns Gravely Damaged After 10 Years in Russia

Pg… 138 PARTY: An Aircraft Carrier Establishes Its Good Name by Keeping the Crew Happy

Pg… 12 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Speaking of Pictures: An Ebony to Apple Blossom Beauty Contest

Pg… 15 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Letters to the Editors

Pg… 140 OTHER DEPARTMENTS: Miscellany: Watched Pots Watching