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LIFE magazine dated July 27, 1959, Volume 47, Number 4, published by Time Inc. The cover painting by Noel Sickles shows America's Great White Fleet of the future on a mission of mercy, with a carrier launching a helicopter ambulance beside an escort and a hospital ship. The cover headlines read Bold Proposal for Peace: A New Kind of Great White Fleet and How U.S. Ships Would Sail on Mercy Mission.
The contents page lists the Great White Fleet peace plan by Frank Manson, Commander, U.S. Navy, When democracy died in Castro's Cuba with text by Thomas Dozier, editorials titled Danger: Hoffa man at work and A goodwill idea with a future, and Mean musky in fierce fight photographed by George Silk. It also lists Old Age Part III by Michael M. Dacso, M.D., The last of a master about the satirical art of George Grosz, Steel teeth for cattle, a Close-Up on Charles Harting Percy, Ethel Merman in the Broadway musical Gypsy, the movie Anatomy of a Murder, a fashion feature by Eleanor Graves, and A beach ball for Model T fans. The Editors' Note is titled Life a Crusader Now as Always.
