North America

HENRY FRANKECENTRALIA, ILL.Franke, 82, a retired carpenter, cast 102 ringers in 182 shoes (56%) to win five straight games and the men's 75-and-over title at the World Horseshoe Pitching Championships in Huntsville,...

As Boswell tells it, Samuel Johnson, after he had finally dispatched the last page of his famous dictionary, asked the messenger who had conveyed them to his impatient, long-waiting publisher, "Well, what did he...

SCOTT DAVISSANTA MONICA, CALIF.Scott, 17, who has won six U.S. Tennis Association national 18-and-under titles in the last 10 months, defeated Jan Gunnarson of Sweden 6-3, 6-1 to win the junior singles championship...

As the Boston Bruins' general manager sees it, the Soviet Union's recent conquest of the NHL's All-Star team was no upset. Look for more of the same

By now Pelé seems more demigod than man: unique genius of soccer, messiah of the game in North America, goodwill ambassador extraordinary (the man for whom they interrupted the Biafran war). When he played his...