10 SOUNDTRACK
Native Dancer...Synchronized Swimming...Bats from Athens
13 SPECTACLE
The wildest horse race in the world IN COLOR
17 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT
As the camera sees it
73 SCOREBOARD and Week's Winners
75 COMING EVENTS
6 AN AMERICAN HELPED BANNISTER WIN THE MILE
Dr. Thomas Cureton's revolutionary body training system may aid the average man as well as athletes.
by JULIAN SNYDER AND PERCY KNAUTH
22 PENNANT RACES—ACT III
Outline of plot and characters as baseball heads into September, by ROBERT CREAMER
24 PREVIEW: TENNIS AT FOREST HILLS
A forecast of the National Singles championships by JOHN TUNIS, SARAH PALFREY, BILL TALBERT AND GERALD HOLLAND
30 FOOTBALL FROM THE NORTH
Beginning this week TV viewers will see a new game KEITH MUNRO explains what it's all about
32 BASEBALL UNDER THE LIGHTS
Some comments on the nightly spectacle by RED SMITH, with four pages of photographs IN COLOR BY MARK KAUFFMAN
37 EVERYBODY GETS INTO THE ACT
An eight-page special section of hurrays! bahs! and various other remarks by our first readers
62 BOBO, ROCKY AND OLD DOC KEARNS
In San Francisco BUDD SCHULBERG selects the real hero of the middleweight championship fight
COVER: Girl in the surf
Even an inlander can feel the tug of the sea, the tingling chill and the salty exhilaration of surf bathing in this cool, blue picture of pretty Pamela Nelson, wife of a Navy officer, who was swimming at Jones Beach, Long Island when Photographer Meek came by in his swim trunks and carrying, of all things, an underwater camera. Meek decided to shoot above water at this target of opportunity.
Acknowledgments on page 64
THE GREAT OUTDOORS:
45 The Cubnaping at Kodiak. A four-page adventure IN COLOR by HY PESKIN
49 The Truth About Spinning. BRYAN COLLIER and BACHE BROWN offer their opinions
76 The Fisherman's Calendar. Compiled by ED ZERN
THE COLUMNISTS:
52 John O'Reilly introduces an alarming though prayerful insect
59 Robert N. Bavier Jr. finds sailing wears a new look at Marblehead Race Week
64 Column of the Week: DICK HYLAND examines the new football masks
69 Albion Hughes tells how Errard King won the American Derby in Chicago
70 Herbert Warren Wind reports from Montreal on the Canada Cup
77 Victor Kalman sees a new St. Louis bowling team as a real threat
THE DEPARTMENTS:
2 Hot Box: JIMMY JEMAIL asks: Who are the bigger liars—golfers or fishermen?
4 Pat on the Back: Praise for those not already smothered with it
53 Under 21: How it feels to be first man out in the Soap Box Derby at Akron
66 Sporting Look: Jockeys are peacocks in the world of sport
71 You Should Know: If you are going to take up golf
78 Yesterday: In the 19th Century the ladies loved croquet
80 Last Laugh: The cartoonists have their inning
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IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
THE RONNIE KNOX STORY
Harvey Knox, America's most ambitious football father, tells in his own words why he took his quarterback stepson out of the University of California
THE POODLE COMES INTO ITS OWN
An account of one of America's most popular dogs by Alice Wagner, with-photographs IN COLOR
HOW ROBIN ROBERTS PITCHES
With a new camera Mark Kauffman takes the reader into the batter's box IN COLOR
WHAT HAPPENED AT DETROIT
Herbert Warren Wind reports on the U.S. Amateur golf tournament
