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January 12, 1959 Table Of Contents

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Jimmy Jemail's Hotbox

THE QUESTION: What is the most exacting kind of skiing?

By Jimmy Jemail

Table of Contents

CURLING SCHEDULE

Championships and bonspiels, from January 8 to March 31

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS January 9 to January 15

Basketball's Week

BASKETBALL'S WEEK

By Mervin Hyman

Red Icemen

RED ICEMEN COME, SEE AND CONQUER

By Robert H. Boyle

New Faces of 1959

Davis Cup

CHIEF INTO SUPERCHIEF

That was the verdict on Alex (The Chief) Olmedo, the happy young Peruvian shown on the opposite page, after his brilliant tennis recaptured the Davis Cup for the U.S.

By William F. Talbert

Spectacle

How Basketball Players Look under Glass

Shooting through the transparent backboard, the color camera catches pro ball's swirling action

Events & Discoveries

EVENTS & DISCOVERIES

READY, U.S.? READY, PERU?

Wonderful World Of Sport

THE PICTURE TO BEAT IN 1959

SAILING SEAS OF SNOW

Andy Bathgate

A LONG, COLD ROAD TO FAME

Seasoned in subzero weather on open rinks, Andy Bathgate has skated to hockey glory

By Kenneth Rudeen

Food

A gentle way with curries

Not everyone can enjoy the fiery Oriental curry dishes; here is a milder but still exotic recipe which is a true curry

By Mary Frost Mabon

Cards

All hail to the ladies!

By Charles Goren

Ski Tip

QUESTION: Am I too old (47) to take up skiing? If not, what would you advise me to do about equipment and lessons?

By Willy Schaeffler/Ski Coach, Denver University

On Field And Campus

Bowls may not be what they seem

TV still produces an occasional optical illusion. On New Year's Day there were several

By Roy Terrell

Golf

On and off the fairways

In 1958 the Young Turks were supreme, but some oldtimers were still very much around

By Barry Burn

Tip From The Top

Opening the hips

By Jay Hebert

Sporting Look

Designing queen

Polly Hornburg has so successfully crystallized an idyllic way of life in her designs that now she is known far beyond her native Bermuda

By Jo Ahern Zill

Irish Hunt

CLASSIC HUNT OF IRELAND

Hard riding, legendary country and plenty of foxes still make the emerald Isle a fox hunter's paradise

By Tano Neville

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: The readers take over

Pat On The Back

WILLIAM WILSON

'Golf is a humbling game'

Departments

MEMO from the publisher

By Harry Phillips

PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL

Games through February

A roundup of the sports information of the week

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

faces in the crowd...