December 24, 1956 Table Of Contents
Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox
The Question: If you were given the Pittsburgh Pirates for Christmas, what would you do with them?
By Jimmy Jemail
Coming Events
COMING EVENTS Dec. 21 through Jan. 4
Table of Contents
STRIFE, AS THEY SAY, IS RAMPANT IN THE BOWLS
Football fans will find enough action to last until fall in traditional year-end feuds
Spectacle
The Tournament of Roses, Pasadena's 67-year-old salute to the New Year, sired the Rose Bowl and started a football fashion
By Ray Duncan
Preview
Here Is your TV screen for the bowl games. Save this chart and the scouting reports following for use during the games
The Wonderful World Of Sport
Baseball's quiet season went wild as Brooklyn sent Jackie Robinson to the hated Giants
Events & Discoveries
A CREDIT TO THE GAME, HERB AND LEW, VIC AND KEN, FRIENDS OF ART LARSEN, GEORGE BREEN AND THE NON PARTICIPATING AUDIENCE, A NEW GOLF HAZARD, MOSEY KING'S LAST DAY
It has been 10 years since the Chicago Bears and the New York Giants, once the powers of pro football, reached the championship playoff. Now they meet again, and, though the cast has changed, the plot is more exciting than ever
Scouting Reports
Los Angeles Golf
THE PROS REASSEMBLE AT LOS ANGELES
The first week in January traditionally signifies another rich L.A. Open and the hectic start of the golf pros' annual cross-country circuit trek
By James Murray
Tip From The Top
for beginners and veterans alike
A Fender, A Poem
That is what automobile design means to Italy's great craftsmen. The last practitioners of a once great art, they now look to Detroit for survival
By Kenneth Rudeen
The Ferrari
DYNAMITE ON WHEELS: THE FERRARI
In international racing as well as design, Italy stands first this year. Here is the car, and the tough and moody man who built it
Sporting Look
Sport clothes that combine a love for Irish fabrics with Californian living are bringing fame to Designer Jane Ford
1956 Silver Anniversary All-America
1956 SILVER ANNIVERSARY ALL-AMERICA
First came the colleges with their nominations, then came the judging—and it was not an easy matter
The first Silver Anniversary All-America award winners are outstanding survivors of a challenging, testing era
By Jack Tibby
A GROUP PORTRAIT: 25 YEARS LATER
A character named Joe and a coach named Tad contributed to the popular picture of the football hero—here are some retouches
Twenty-five years ago these 25 were learning the lessons of football—now they are furnishing U.S. leadership in business, medicine, law, theology, diplomacy, teaching, coaching and the military
Snow Patrol
Compiled by Mort Lund
Acknowledgments
The Ball
It may be wood, rubber or leather; it may bounce, fly or roll, but each is a key element in its sport
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19th HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER