Life Magazine in 1952
/As I looked at the issues of Life Magazine from 1952 (the year before I was born), I noticed:
Beginnings that would be big new later – unrest in Saigon, Elizabeth about to become queen, reporting on commercialized whaling, Eisenhower beyond being a General, and polio vaccines
Popular science – overabundance of deer and elk, golden trout, enemies of bees, emergence of a dragonfly, poisoning of ducks and other waterfowl, and lawn pests
Art – Cezanne and Calder
They were all part of what the publisher thought was newsworthy in 1952!
All the weekly issues are available from Internet Archive.
Life Magazine 1952-01-07 - Winter scenes
Life Magazine 1952-01-14 - Truman and Churchill
Life Magazine 1952-01-21 - Most important wheels in American! (railroad ad)
Life Magazine 1952-01-28 - Bomb in Saigon square
Life Magazine 1952-02-04 - Deer in Salt Lake City/Elk in Yellowstone Park
Life Magazine 1952-02-11 - Ohio City shrugs off flood
Life Magazine 1952-02-18 - Elizabeth arrives in London to take oath of accession
Life Magazine 1952-02-25 - Cezanne
Life Magazine 1952-03-03 - Coca-Cola Ad “Quality you can trust”
Life Magazine 1952-03-10 - Skating stones near Death Valley
Life Magazine 1952-03-17 - Eleanor Roosevelt in Pakistan and India
Life Magazine 1952-03-24 - Olympic Whaling Company processing a whale
Life Magazine 1952-03-31 - Azaleas at Orton Plantation (North Carolina)
Life Magazine 1952-04-07 - Fire at French camp in Antarctica
Life Magazine 1952-04-14 - Coney Island (Steeplechase Pier and Parachute Jump)
Life Magazine 1952-04-21 - Baby “stuff”
Life Magazine 1952-04-28 - Travel by train (in the west/southwest)
Life Magazine 1952-05-05 - Cotton knit clothing
Life Magazine 1952-05-12 - Summer shoes
Life Magazine 1952-05-19 - Expanding Marine aviation
Life Magazine 1952-05-26 - Texas factory makes plastic copies of skulls and bones
Life Magazine 1952-06-02 - 6 baby elephants fly from Bangkok to U
Life Magazine 1952-06-09 - Belle Grove in Louisiana (decaying)
Life Magazine 1952-06-16 - Eisenhower
Life Magazine 1952-06-23 - Rockel launch (General Electric ad)
Life Magazine 1952-06-30 - Chicago’s Hilton…hosted the Republican convention
Life Magazine 1952-07-07 - White House redecorated
Life Magazine 1952-07-14 - Golden trout of the high Sierras
Life Magazine 1952-07-21 - S.S. United States – newest liner and biggest ship built in the US
Life Magazine 1952-07-28 - Emergence of a dragonfly
Life Magazine 1952-08-04 - Two tots in a tub recover from polio
Life Magazine 1952-08-11 - Enemies of bees
Life Magazine 1952-08-18 - Kodak ad
Life Magazine 1952-08-25 - Calder mobiles
Life Magazine 1952-09-01 - 20 distinguished airlines (Lockheed ad)
Life Magazine 1952-09-08 - Lawn pests and how to fight them
Life Magazine 1952-09-15 - White Sands photograph
Life Magazine 1952-09-22 - Disaster for Utah ducks (poisoned by stagnant water bacteria)
Life Magazine 1952-09-29 - Photos from immediately after atomic bombs in Japan
Life Magazine 1952-10-06 - Mamie Eisenhower and Pat Nixon
Life Magazine 1952-10-13 - Madame Chiang Kai-shek painting
Life Magazine 1952-10-20 - Fall colors in New England
Life Magazine 1952-10-27 - Vaccines promise conquest of polio in this decade
Life Magazine 1952-11-03 - 2,000 year old lotus seed…gets a chance to bloom
Life Magazine 1952-11-10 - Seasons (Coca-Cola ad)
Life Magazine 1952-11-17 - Mexico City is sinking (20 inches/year)
Life Magazine 1952-11-24 - Iron tires and heartaches to cross the country
Life Magazine 1952-12-01 - Feasting as the highpoint of Christmas in Tudor England
Life Magazine 1952-12-08 - Primeval oceans and landscapes
Life Magazine 1952-12-15 - Santa (Arrow shirts ad)
Life Magazine 1952-12-22 - Merry Christmas (Texaco ad)
Life Magazine 1952-12-29 - Tractor (Borg-Warner ad)
