August 01, 1960 | Volume 13, Issue 5

BASEBALL WAKES AT LAST

A Louisiana Cajun who often plays first-rate golf only to finish second, Jay Hebert surprised himself and others; he won the PGA after Palmer gambled once too often

While Arnold Palmer was failing at Akron in his attempt to sweep the major U.S. golf titles, at the hilly, green Worcester Country Club in Massachusetts, Mickey Wright was missing a slam bid of...

Intent on revenge, confident of success, the Chicago White Sox swept into New York last week to challenge the Yankees for the American League lead. For three days they poked singles over and...

Fighting to hang on to his bucking bronc in Tucson's La Fiesta de los Vaqueros rodeo, Bareback Rider Tommy Smith disqualifies himself by touching mount with his free hand as pickup man maneuvers...

Center stage for the XVII Olympiad is the rebuilt 100,000-seat Stadio Olimpico, begun by Mussolini for the war-cancelled 1944 Olympics. It is situated between the slopes of Monte Mario and the Tiber.

High in the roadless mountains of Idaho's Primitive Area there is a wild stretch of water that dives and twists 113 miles through the canyons of the Salmon River Mountains. In 1937 Dr. Russell...

In 1958, when an English Van wall was voted the best Grand Prix car of the year, it was rather freely reported that a revolution in auto racing had taken place. Actually, at that time it...

Stephen Birmingham, champion all-round non-athlete, wit and social historian, tells how judicious use of sporting terms enables him to avoid all exertion, yet talk a good game.

A noted humorist urges competitive apathy as a dynamic answer to that old tired feeling

In the long light of history The Decline and Fall of New York by Gerald Holland (SI, Jan. 11) may not overshadow a more extensive treatise on the similar fate of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon....

America's version of the Tour de France stops traffic but provides an Olympic team

By knocking out Zora Folley, Sonny Liston clearly earned a shot at the title but he has little reason to expect he will get it soon

The fifth month is an adventurous one in the life of a baby. He will discover for himself, as 5-month-old René Pouteau (below) is doing, that he can turn over, move around on his own and generally...

Sailing for 40 long and lonely days through fog and terrifying weather, a London map maker beats his rivals to port by a wide margin in the first singlehanded transatlantic race

Bridge, like all other institutions, has its woe-sayers and head-waggers, and they are never more active than when they have a new convention to consider. The typical, unreconstructed view of the...

A THINKING CHAMPION

BICYCLING—The 1960 U.S. OLYMPIC ROAD TEAM which qualified at trials in Central Park, N.Y. (see page 42): MICHAEL HILTNER and LARS ZEBROSKI, both of Pedale Alpini Club, Los Angeles; ROBERT...

Cover—Jerry Cooke6—San Francisco Chronicle7—Arthur E. Fillmore, New York Times, Brian Seed, U.P.I., A.P.12, 13—Art Rickerby-Pix14—map by William Bernstein15—Hy Peskin27—John Sadovy29—David...

GOLF CASTING, ANYONE?Sirs:I would like to apply for membership in the U.S. Golf Club Casting Association (19TH HOLE, July 18). I have long felt that the only purpose of golf was to vent emotion,...

'They're my guests'

Carol Meinhart of Pittsburgh, women's national archery champion, set two world records at Pittsburgh when she shot 742-756 for two-round 1,498, beating previous one-round (740) and two-round...

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