The listing, Life Magazines-11/2/53 and 12/26/55 has ended.
168-page December 26, 1955 LIFE Magazine, a special issue devoted to Christianity. The cover story is a 14-page color spread on The Life of Christ As Seen By Great Artists, the art being chosen by a special commission for the National Council of Churches.
Subjects of articles include: archdiocese of Chicago; Frontier's Rugged Basis for American Protestantism; America's Music of Worship; new ideas for Sunday Schools; Billy Graham at home; chart of 16 Christian groups in America; Harvard Divinity School; comtemporay church architecture [6 color pages]; St. Benedict's Abbey, Atchison KS [photo essay]; US missionaries in China; Text pages are tightly bound and generally clean. Front is mildly worn. There is a slight roll along the spine with some minor scarring, and there is an address label at lower left.
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November 2,1953 Issue. On the cover is Winston Churchill. nice cover with one corner crease and mailing label on red edge. inside cover is color Forstmann Wool ad; color 1954 Dodge ad; color Mercury ad; The Underdog's Night to Howl Iowa State College; Caught with the goods Hospital thefts run to $1 million; color Campbells soup ad; two page color Chrysler ad; Miss Egypt's Tale of Woe; A Prodigal and His Kin Corporal Edward Dickenson; UCLA's nightime card tricks; Triumph and Tragedy by Sir Winston Churchill with color pictures and artwork; color Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer ad; Gift Horses U.S. Jumping team works hard training its borrowed mounts; color Life Savers ad; A Silver Anniversary for Walt and Mickey with color pictures; color Whitman's Sampler ad; color Chun King ad; moments of British TV furnish examples for the U.S.; The Great Sperm Whale this is the first picture ever made of Moby Dick swimming free below the surface; color Brach's Candy ad with Lana Turner; Life Goes to a Church Cornhusking; color Ballantine Beer ad on inside back cover; and on back cover is color Camel ad with Maureen O'Sullivan.