Cover: In the dawn off Nantucket survivors fron the heavily listing "Andrea Doria" are rowed to safety
- Speaking of Pictures: how to pat a whale, p. 10
- Letters to the Editors, p. 12
- An epic sea rescue: photographs show sinking of "Andrea Doria" and saving of her passengers; Walter Lord describes the hours of fear in this night of terror, p. 18
- Editorials, p. 35
- A look at the World's Week, p. 36
- Stassen stumbles badly in his stop-Nixon move, p. 41
- Cold calamity for cotton: artificial hail measures cotton damage from storms, p. 45
- A sad saucy star: the U.S. gets a look ar Italy's Giulietta Masina, p. 48
- The big stork handout: Alsace furnishes everything free for its featherred friends, p. 53
- A pulpit on the deck: English villege worships on a boat in a fisherman's museum, p. 63
- A lost love and new adventure, by Samuel E. Chamberlain: Part III of "My Confession", a soldier-artist's Mexican War memoirs, p. 64
- Russian bear down for the Olympics: athletes train zealously to improve their already formidable performance. Photographed for Life by Lisa Larsen, p. 91
- Doubles in grace: Giacomo Manzu's classics style makes him one of Italy's best contemporary sculptors, p. 101
- A Shavian centennial is celebrated in Chicago, p. 104
- Waiters give a style tip and woman adopt their Chinese working jackets, p. 106
- Baby Doe and her silver king: a historic American love story is an operatic hit, p. 109
- Nuns in a musical frolic: Notre Dame speech class pokes pleasant fun at convent living, p. 115
- Miscellany: tiers of tattered trolleys, p. 118