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CONTENTS
23 THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT As the camera sees it
16 SOUNDTRACK SI's editors report and reflect on the news
50 COMING EVENTS
51 SCOREBOARD and Week's Winners
8 TWO MEN AGAINST THE WORLD
Switzerland's old bobsledding pros-Fritz Feierabend and Franz Kapus—turned the 1955 world bobsledding championship into a personal duel. A report in words and pictures by JAMES BELL and RALPH CRANE
12 DIPLOMAT IN SHORT PANTS
U.S. Track Star Mai Whitfield, international envoy extraordinary, in action in Northern Rhodesia; the success of a mission in photographs by TERENCE SPENCER
19 DOGS ON THE RUN
Under the glare of lights in Phoenix, Arizona HY PESKIN photographs the tense and beautiful spectacle of greyhounds whipping furiously around an oval track. Four pages of a fast-growing, dramatic sport IN COLOR
28 FIGURING ON TENLEY
Young Tenley Albright is an old figure skating champion at 19—old enough to know, anyway, what it means to reach the heights, and fall, to rise again. Her friend and teacher, MARIBEL VINSON, talks about her brightest pupil
34 PAUTZKE AND HIS SUPERTROUT
Out in the Slate of Washington a dedicated biologist is filling the streams with 20-pound steelhead. Dramatic good news for fishermen by JOE MILLER and PAUL O'NEIL
38 PREVIEW: MILLROSE GAMES
The 48th annual running of an American track-and-field classic takes place in New York's Madison Square Garden this weekend. BOGART ROGERS writes about Fred Schmertz, a founder and organizer, and JOHN GROTH interprets the beauty and excitement of its orderly confusion in his unique watercolors. With a special rundown on the events and star competitors
THE DEPARTMENTS
1 Pat on the Back: Praise for those not already smothered with it
2 Hotbox: JIMMY JEMAIL asks: How much should a wife indulge her husband's love for sports?
4 Boating: ROBERT N. BAVIER JR. looks back on the National Motor Boat Show, with particular emphasis on new gadgets
32 Sporting Look: An international yachtswoman, Mrs. Loel Guinness, shows her favorite sports clothes
46 Column of the Week: SHIRLEY POVICH of the Washington (D.C.) Post thinks it is time to review election procedure to baseball's Hall of Fame
46 Football: HERMAN HICKMAN sums up the NFL draft and gets to talking about pro football back in his day
47 Hockey: SCOTT YOUNG ventures the opinion that fights on the ice will always be with us, and cites a few examples to prove it
48 Golf: HERBERT WARREN WIND gets just a little bit sentimental at the annual dinner of the Metropolitan Golf Writers Association. Let's face it—the game has some pretty fine guys
49 Horses: ALBION HUGHES, writing from Florida, discusses the invasion of foreign horses into U.S. racing and names a few to watch for
53 Snow Patrol and Fisherman's Calendar: BILL WALLACE with the latest reports from ski country; and ED ZERN from the lakes and rivers
54 Tip from the Top: GENE SARAZEN gives some pointers on the importance of learning to hit from all varieties of lies
56 The Matchwit Puzzle: SI's specialty: the duet with the dictionary
58 The 19th Hole: The readers take over
COVER: Carol Heiss
Photograph by HY PESKIN
Carol Heiss of Ozone Park, N.Y. is a beguiling little blonde who also happens to be one of the finest female figure skaters in the world. However, she won't be satisfied until she knows she is the very best (p. 17). This month, at the World Championships in Vienna, she will go after the biggest prize of all; but before she gets it, she will have to beat another pretty and talented American, Tenley Albright of Boston (p. 28).
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IN NEXT WEEK'S ISSUE
THE WESTMINSTER DOG SHOW
An SI Preview of the nation's No. 1 canine event—its history, its leading personalities, its problems and how the blue ribbons are awarded. With a four-page foldout of champion dog portraits and a genealogical chart IN COLOR
A VISIT TO COOPERSTOWN
A distinguished author and lifelong baseball fan, JAMES T. FARRELL, takes his 14-year-old son on a nostalgic journey to the Hall of Fame
THE MILLROSE GAMES
The results of the 48th annual track-and-field classic in words and pictures—a comprehensive documentary
PLUS: FISHING IN LAKE TITICACA—A REPORT IN COLOR
