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March 18, 1968 | Volume 28, Issue 11
About onagers, ballistas, espringales, gunpowder and a cannon called Catherine
March 18, 1968 |
Duncan Barnes
A new book entitled One Hundred Great Guns (Walker & Co., New York) might well be worth the $25 it costs if it were nothing more than a handsome picture book. But besides its 200 or more fine...
SCORECARD
March 18, 1968
BLACKBALLED
THEY SAID IT
March 18, 1968
•Jack McCloskey, Wake Forest basketball coach, after his team lost to St. Joseph's of Philadelphia: "I don't mind when we play a Catholic school and the referee is Catholic, but when the game is...
A TALE OF TWO IDOLS
March 18, 1968 | Paul Ress
Claims that Jean-Claude Killy accepted money and that soccer's Sir Stanley Matthews had given some away tarnished two of sport's shining names
REMATCH FOR ELVIN AND BIG LEW
March 18, 1968 |
Joe Jares
The early rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament will produce some fascinating strategy and close games, and they should lead to the semifinal confrontation everyone awaits
1968 NCAA Title Draw
March 18, 1968 |
Joe Jares
EAST REGIONALS
Next week
March 18, 1968
Down to four teams, the NCAA basketball tournament moves to Los Angeles for the final round. Joe Jares analyzes the regional title games and predicts the likely winner.
THE RANGERS ON THE RAMPAGE
March 18, 1968 |
Pete Axthelm
Led by a night owl, a homebody and a practical joker, New York has shaken its early miseries and gathered a winning momentum that could end in its first Stanley Cup victory since 1940
HIS WORKMAN'S COMPENSATION
March 18, 1968 | Mark Kram
Joe Frazier believes in giving full measure for what he gets. There were no frills in his performance, but when the bout was over Buster Mathis was flat on his back and Frazier was a champion of sorts
AN ANSWER TO THE BRADLEY RIDDLE
March 18, 1968 | Curry Kirkpatrick
Months after his heralded debut in pro basketball Bill Bradley often plays poorly—when he is not on the bench. Where is the superb performer of just two years ago?
THE MASTERS OF SHED ROW
March 18, 1968
Often he stands awkwardly in the winner's circle as his owner accepts the trophies. At other times he is back in the barn as his jockey is surrounded by press and pageantry. Mostly his job is one...
PEOPLE
March 18, 1968
"Ten years ago," the London Daily Express muses, "any suggestion that the 'In' dog of 1968 would be the Old English Sheepdog would have been faintly comic. Nevertheless, it has happened. Pop star...
Another log on a smouldering fire
March 18, 1968 |
Alfred Wright
Friction between the touring pros and the PGA flares over new clauses in tournament entry forms
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
March 18, 1968 |
Garry Valk
Mark Kram, whose story of the first fight night in the new Madison Square Garden begins on page 35, hardly fulfills the image of what a magazine sports writer—even one primarily concerned with...
Deep down in the lanes with Lady Bird
March 18, 1968 |
Barbara La Fontaine
They are so well hidden in the labyrinthian cellars of the White House that it takes a First Lady to find them. The President's wife, it develops, is not only a fine bowler, she shines even with...
A safety play that brought about disaster
March 18, 1968 |
Charles Goren
Firing on the contract bridge front began a full week before the opening of the Spring National Championships in New-York City this month. Canada's Olympiad bridge team invaded Manhattan for a...
Neither side vulnerable North dealer
March 18, 1968 |
Charles Goren
NORTH
North-South vulnerable East dealer
March 18, 1968 |
Charles Goren
NORTH
Bang! Bang! You're Dead
March 18, 1968 |
Martin Kane
Bonnie and Clyde have given the burgeoning cult of violence a campy stylishness, and a lot of Americans are going out and buying guns—not necessarily for sport. With the long hot summer just...
A roundup of the sports information of the week
March 18, 1968
BASKETBALL—ABA: PITTSBURGH (50-23) won its 10th, 11th and 12th straight games—with Connie Hawkins totaling 120 points—and then lost two as its lead slipped to 2½ games over second-place MINNESOTA...
CREDITS
March 18, 1968
6—Antonio Marcilla22—Paris Match-Pictorial Parade23—Keystone Press24—London Daily Express-Pictorial Parade25—Paris Match-Pictorial Parade28—Neil Leifer29—Eric Schweikardt31—Walter Iooss Jr.32,...
FACES IN THE CROWD
March 18, 1968
Bruce Preston, a ninth-grader at The Principia Upper School in St. Louis, set six varsity swimming records—in freestyle, backstroke, butterfly and individual medley—as he won 20 of 24...
BASKETBALL'S WEEK
March 18, 1968 |
Mervin Hyman
THE TOURNAMENTS
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
March 18, 1968
TIPOFFSirs:Resentment dominated my first reaction to the statements regarding the Eastern College Athletic Conference and myself as its commissioner contained in your SCORECARD item, "In a Fix"...
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