Contents

The News of the Week

10 NEW YORK: Giants force the Browns to a playoff

14 PUERTO RICO: A Rockefeller opens a new golf resort

20 LONDON: A murky tale of doped racing dogs

22 MONTREAL: Archie Moore, toujours le champion!

30 Inside the Bowls
Scouting reports, Red Grange's predictions

36 Champions in Party Dresses
Color photographs of six lovely sportswomen

43 Part I: Figure Skating
Lessons by Robert Riger and Maribel Vinson

52 Year-end Bridge Quiz
Charles Goren presents 18 holiday problems

62 The Napier Plan for Baseball
A revealing Inside Story by Gerald Holland

76 The Tiger and the Fly
For children, parents and statesmen of all ages

81 The Silver Anniversary All-America
Sports Illustrated's annual career awards

98 Friendly Blizzard
Family skiers come out: where they go and why

104 The Man Who Wouldn't
A modern parable by Satirist Jules Feiffer

110 A Gentle Hurrah for Mayor Curley
A fond reminiscence by Herbert Warren Wind

The departments

5 Basketball
6 Scoreboard
25 Events & Discoveries
60 Food
115 19th Hole
116 Pat on the Back

Acknowledgments on page 115

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Next issue: Jan. 5

Our next issue salutes the outstanding people in sport for 1958 and especially praises the Sportsman of the Year, whose performance as athlete and man was "the revelation of pure excellence."