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December 15, 1958 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

THE QUESTION: Should there be an open in skiing as there is in golf?

By Jimmy Jemail

Ski Schedule

The leading championships and meets, December through April

School For Pros

Schoolbells for a Pro

Stein Eriksen, one of the world's great skiers, joins a class and learns to teach

By Bayard Hooper

Basketball's Week

BASKETBALL'S WEEK

By Mervin Hyman

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS December 12 to December 18

IT'S UP IN THE AIR

The wild and woolly pro football season heads for a tingling climax as the Giants and Browns prepare for the final battle of the East

By Tex Maule

Wonderful World Of Sport

WONDERFUL WORLD OF SPORT

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

KRAMER: PROS AND CONS

Olé For José

THE WORD FOR JOSÉ IS A LOUD OLÉ

José Torres, exciting new middleweight, thrills his Puerto Rican compatriots

By Martin Kane

Artists On The Ice

BEST ON ICE IN THE SPOTLIGHT

With enormous talent and a devoted coach, Barbara Wagner and Bob Paul have literally set audiences ablaze in the world of figure skating

By Mary Snow

On Field And Campus

THE YEAR OF LONESOME GEORGE

This magazine's peripatetic football reporter reviews the fun and trends he witnessed during 10 very lively weekends

By Roy Terrell

Horse Racing

Sport first, business second

That's the way it must be if racing is to stay healthy, as the brilliant 1958 season has again convincingly proved

By Whitney Tower

Basketball

The Generals have gone amateur

Under a controversial new athletic policy Washington & Lee has its first nonscholarship basketball team. Results are surprising

By Jeremiah Tax

Travel

Winter haven at land's end

On Baja California's sun-seared coast a new hotel and promise of a mixed bag of game are now attracting both hunters and anglers

Motor Sports

Twin triumph for Lance

Reventlow on Friday, Reventlow on Sunday—that was the story in Nassau

By Kenneth Rudeen

Food

General Gaylord makes a soufflé

A prominent executive and student of fine cooking shares some top kitchen secrets

By Mary Frost Mabon

Fitness

Exercise at a new angle 50

Holidays got you down? Try a new view of things and get in shape upside down

By Bonnie Prudden

Skiing

SHORT CUT TO THE SHORTSWING

Willy Schaeffler introduces a class of youngsters to the fun-and-games way of learning the fundamentals of skiing

By Ezra Bowen

Tip From The Top

The center of the club face

By Jim Turnesa

Golf

On and of the fairways

The lady pros: star for the new year, poll for the Old

By Barry Burn

Cards

Meet the team: CHARLES J. SOLOMON

By Charles Goren

THINKER ON HORSEBACK

His athletic credo of thought before action has made Billy Steinkraus one of the world's great horsemen

By Alice Higgins

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: The readers take over

Pat On The Back

Courtney H. Hodges

'I didn't kill him'

Departments

MEMO from the publisher

By Harry Phillips

A roundup of the sports information of the week

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

faces in the crowd...