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December 12, 1955 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

The Question: Do you agree that to have more deer we should shoot more deer? (Asked at Colorado Springs and Denver)

By Jimmy Jemail

Fisherman's Calendar

FISHERMAN'S CALENDAR

Compiled by Ed Zern

Tip From The Top

For middle- and high-handicap golfers

By Joe Belfore

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

GEORGIA'S GOVERNOR SENDS WIRE, GETS REPLY, GAMBLING, GOLF AND THE GROANER, BASKETBALL, FROM CUPOLA TO SUBBASEMENT, BLINKY SLIPS A PUNCH, FIRST FLIGHT OF THE PROLATE SPHEROID

Spectacle

ACAPULCO'S FLYERS

Among the greatest practitioners of an electrifying sport are La Quebrada's high divers, who leap for a tourists' floor show

Miami-in-Mexico

Miami-in-Mexico

Booming Acapulco, with its new luxury hotels, dream cottages and nightclubs like none elsewhere in the world, is a golden resort on the blue Pacific's shore

By Horace Sutton

Basketball Bounces In

BASKETBALL BOUNCES IN

For the next 100 days, most college sports headlines will go to young fellows in short satin pants. Here is a preview of the big show and its cast of characters

By Roy Terrell

The Wonderful World Of Sport

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT

Badgered Dog

BADGERED DOG

Once the most disliked of breeds, dachshunds have outlived their wartime stigma and now rank fifth as favorite pets

By Reginald Wells

Tennis

TENNIS

TWO FINE TENNIS PLAYERS NAMED GONZALES AND TRABERT START A SWING THROUGH SIX CONTINENTS THIS WEEK TO SEE WHO IS CHAMP

By James Murray

Football

FOOTBALL

THE PROS HAVE BEEN THRILLING CROWDS WITH CLIFFHANGERS AS THE NEW TALENT PROVES ITS METTLE AND LIVENS THE LEAGUE

By Alfred Wright

Boxing

BOXING

ONE OF THE GREAT FIGHTERS OF ALL TIME, SUGAR RAY ROBINSON, MAKES HIS COMEBACK BID THIS WEEK. HE'S FIGHTING BIG ODDS

By Budd Schulberg

Motor Sports

MOTOR SPORTS

THE OFF-TRACK BUZZ: STIRLING MOSS MAKES A CHANGE, INDY GETS AN OFFER FROM MONZA, AND A SLOW BURN HEATS UP A COLD CORVETTE

By Kenneth Rudeen

SCOTCH ON THE ROCKS

Scottish curling, brought to American shores, loses nothing in translation

By Andrew Crichton

Skiing

SKIING

A FLOCK OF FRESH GADGETS, FUNCTIONAL, FANCIFUL AND FASCINATING, PROMISE FASTER, SAFER SKIING THIS WINTER

By Ezra Bowen

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS December 9 through December 18

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

PAT ON THE BACK

Departments

A ROUNDUP OF THE WEEK'S NEWS

MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Harry Phillips