Old Vintage LIFE Magazines - 1959 - Red China's Birthday Celebration

Vintage LIFE Magazines - A Piece of Americana

This old original October 19, 1959 issue of LIFE magazine is a vintage example of what America was thinking about that week - the top news stories, world events, and what were important social issues of the time. Packed with full-color vintage ads and vivid photo essays, this double-issue LIFE magazine gave Americans a window on the world beyond their front yard.

Popularly considered an American icon, LIFE magazine exemplifies America's state of affairs, and American's interests. No amount of Internet research can duplicate the feeling of holding a piece of American history in your hands.

Old Vintage LIFE Magazine - October 19, 1959, (10/19/1959), Shows Chairman Mao and Khrushchev at Red China's Birthday Celebration

October 19, 1959 - Original LIFE Magazine Issue

Front Cover: Peking Square - (T'ien An Men Sq.), Celebration display of Missiles and military might, along with citizen displays - *inside front cover: full-color Brach's Candy ad

Front Cover headlines: What Mao Showed K., An Old Iowa Hand Visits China, Part II - Your Doctor and You, New-Style Family Physician, Pekings Missiles and Mums

Rear Cover: Lucky Strike Cigarette ad - *inside rear cover: full-color Calvert Reserve Whiskey

Featured Stories:

Red China's Birthday Celebration: Khrushchev finds out how not to be the life of the party when, as honor guest at Red China's birthday celebration, he talks peace, praises Ike, and gets a cool reception from his hosts. - The start of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's "Great Leap Forward", Includes photos of Red China's Military Might parade displays.
You and Your Doctor, Part II: LIFE shows one answer to the problems of modern medicine: the highly trained specialists moving in on the job of the family doctor. Internist vs. G.P. and the problem of equal medical care for all
Casey Stengel and the World Series: Master of Baseball Strategy, and of an inimitable prose style, Casey Stengel - LIFE's own series expert - tells how brashness, and some heros won for the Dodgers
Where Darwin Stands Today: In the concluding article of it's Darwin series, LIFE shows missing links and reports the evidence that modern science has found to support the epochal theory of evolution.

Table of Contents:

This Week's Events: During Khrushchev's visit, Chinese youths wave scarves and paper Mums against a background of model missile and plane, Big show and no go for K. in Red China; Britain's Tory Supermac swamps Socialists. Congressional quizzers get more dirt on game show's, and ask "Where's Charley?", Rhino gets the most votes in Brazilian election as a protest against the politicians; Presidential candidate in a big hurry - Nixon campaigns from New Hampshire to Oregon in a single week.
Editorials: The Invisable Robber, Mac's election - and ours
Pictorial Essays: Darwin's World of Nature, A New Kind of Family Physician
Articles: Epic story of film's first epic. By Cecil B. DeMille, and, Chicago is what you can stagnent - by Casey Stengel
Education: Week-end face-lifting modernizes classrooms
Modern Living: High-flying toys for space age, and Opulence to plain rooms: boxy apartments are given a spirited personal look - color photos
Theater: Mark Twain's amazing twin: a young actor's uncanny impersonation scores a pne-man hit
Fashion: Stars' splendor back in style; dramatic fashions from California recall Hollywood of the 30's
Art: Farewell to the great Bernard Berenson
Military Affairs: Lack of thrust and purpose keeps U.S. behind Russia in space
Sports: bath's bathtub derby day
Party: Backstage with Ingrid Bergman

Vintage Ads - A Collector's Dream

LIFE magazine's collection of advertisements, many full-page full-color ads from iconic brands of the time, are a trademark feature of the magazine. Many subscribers scanned for the ads as much as for the other photo and text content.

A list of some of the ads in LIFE magazine issues might include:

Vintage ads: Full page color ads: Miss Clairol, Kraft Jellies, Kentile Floors, American Motors, LifeSavers, Bell Telephone Systems, Old Forester Whiskey, Walker's Deluxe Whiskey, Borden's Ice Cream, Avis Rent-a-Car, Squib Phamicuticals, Green Giant, Old Charter Whiskey, Mennon, One-a-Day vitamins,Reader's Digest, King Sano Cigs., Sealtest Ice Cream, Pillsbury,Chase & Sanborn, ETHYL Corp., National Homes, Ford, Wesson Oil, Monsanto, Lord Calvert, Brown shoes, Florida Land, AC Sparkplugs, Evinrude, Buick, Chef Boy-ar-Dee, General Motors, Salem, National Bo, Mercury Outboards,Philco TV, Miss Clairol, Chesterfield, Coca-Cola, Ford Chevrolet. Schlitz, Wesson Oil, Chrysler, Sanka, International Truck, Philip Morris, Ritz Crackers, American Airlines, Friskies Dog Food, Pontiac, A&P Ann Page Foods, Kentile Floors, Miss Clairol, Kraft Jellies, Esso Motor Oil, Valiant Car, Calvert Reserve, OldsmobileAmerican Standard Western Electric, Campbell's Soup, Zenith, Douglas DC-8, Mercury, Studebaker Champ Truck ...and dozens of other ads!

You Can Own This Vintage LIFE Magazine Issue

This October 19, 1959 LIFE Magazine is an original issue that is almost double the content of a typical issue, and has the original address label. It is in very good condition, with the normal wear that a 50 year old magazine would have. No loose, detached, or mutilated pages. The photos are of the original issue so you can judge it's condition, and it is available with Free shipping at:

Original October 19, 1959 Vintage Life Magazine

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