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August 13, 1956 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

The Question: How do you feel about mixed foursomes in golf?

By Jimmy Jemail

Brooklyn's Money Men

BROOKLYN'S MONEY MEN COME THROUGH AGAIN

Challenged by Milwaukee's sizzling young Braves, the rich old Dodgers showed that they intend to stay rich by once more delivering like champions when the pressure was on

By Roy Terrell

Spectacle

BICYCLE RACE? C'EST LA GUERRE!

The Tour de France is one part Gallic excitability and another part madness

By William McHale

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

LIGHTNING STRIKES AGAIN-AND AGAIN, A FEATHER FOR SOME WEIGHT, THE DANGERS OF GOING UP AND DOWN, DIRTY WORK IN GELSENKlRCHEN, AFTER THE GUEST LEFT

The Wonderful World Of Sport

THE WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT

Wonderful World Of Sport

THE BLUEBOOK GOES TO SEA

PACKED FOR PLEASURE

On Hope Williams' luxurious pack trip into the Wyoming Rockies socialite friends "rough it" in champagne and venison style

Tennis

A handful of Westchester pilgrims saw the U.S. Davis Cup win over Mexico, enlivened by a guitar and some LATIN-TYPE TENNIS

By William F. Talbert

Boating

OLYMPIC SAILING: A PREVIEW

American yachtsmen enter the final eliminations to decide who will sail for the U.S. against the best in the world at Melbourne

By Ezra Bowen

Horses

TELEMETER MANIA

Our guest columnist questions some legends, finds all is not well with U.S. racing and bluntly blames

By Pat Lynch

BAY STATE BAYS

Aptly enough, at the biggest and the most successful Morgan Show ever held, many ribbon winners were

By Alice Higgins

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Tip From The Top

especially for tall, slim players

By Bud Holscher

X-Ray

X-RAY

THE OUTDOOR WEEK

In Nova Scotia tuna-angling Yale wins a cup, in Connecticut a tempest rages in the tepees, and the grizzly bear lumbers close to extinction in the Old Wild West

Edited by Thomas H. Lineaweaver

Sports Of The Presidents

HORSES FOR THE GENERAL

From the age of 9 Ulysses S. Grant's passion for horses was excelled only by his genius at breaking, riding and driving the most fractious of them

By John Durant

Mr. Caper

MR. CAPER

By Ajay

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

PAT ON THE BACK

Departments

MEMO FROM THE PUBLISHER

By Harry Phillips

SCOREBOARD

...THESE FACES IN THE CROWD...

FOCUS ON THE DEED

FOR THE RECORD