Life Magazine April 23, 1956 Jayne Mansfield, Stalin Khrushchev


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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Why the Kremlin damns Stalin — 34

• Princess and new home — 66 and 197

• The prodigious music maker — 112

• Smartest dumb blonde — 178

• Rafael’s heart-warming story — 152

• The death of six Marines — 52

COVER
• Jayne Mansfield, Broadway’s most talked-about new actress (see pp. 178-180)

THE WEEK’S EVENTS
• The sensational secret behind Stalin’s damnation
• An ex-NKVD general disclosed deeds of Alexander Orlov
• A redraw of the Soviet regime
• A U.S. envoy in Moscow makes decision
• Cartoonist’s pressure
• A look at the world’s week

EDITORIALS
• A letter to Khrushchev
• Moral dilemma on campus

PICTORIAL ESSAYS
• Prodigious music maker: the world honors Mozart on his 200th anniversary
• Clubfoot boy from Dominican Republic gets new feet and a home

ARTICLES
• Star’s legend in the making: Jayne Mansfield talks dumb but heads for the top — by Ernest Havemann

THEATER
• Frank Loesser’s “The Most Happy Fella” is a musical landmark

SPORTS
• Swimmer Orrin Nordstrom wears gloves, shoes while training

ENTERTAINMENT
• Beauty for big top: a French artist decks circus in flowery finery

SCIENCE
• In frogs the universe: Jean Rostand, son of the famous playwright, finds a rich life in his scientific studies

MOVIES
• Hitchcock does a hair-raiser in a concert hall
• Marlon Brando makes up like an Okinawan for “Teahouse” role

RELIGION
• Church for the deaf conducts its services in sign language

ANIMALS
• Op the dolphin has a brief summer of happiness taking New Zealand swimmers for a ride

MODERN LIVING
• New look for children: a new book tells where and how to acquire 1,200 gifts for the asking

TELEVISION
• Man bites lice dog as Lassie and Perry Como get TV awards

ART
• Cult of the kitchen sink: British emphasize the sordid

MUSIC
• Brother Matthew at the jam session: a great saxophonist leaves the monastery briefly for a jazz performance

MEDICINE
• A new technique for collecting blood plasma increases production

PARTY
• En route to Monaco for her wedding, Grace Kelly plays hard at The Game. Photographed by Howell Conant

OTHER DEPARTMENTS
• Letters to the Editors
• Speaking of Pictures: three miffed misses yearn for other roles

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