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February 27, 1961 Table Of Contents

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POINT OF FACT

A college-basketball quiz to test the ingenuity and add to the knowledge of the casual fan and the armchair expert

By Maury Allen

Yesterday

Skinny and his hoper

Ernie Calverley made a shot in the NIT 15 years ago that is still remembered today

By Maury Allen

Coming Events

COMING EVENTS February 24 to March 2

Bobsleds

THE FASTEST RUN OF ALL

The bobsledders' world championship chewed up one team (below), but a small red-headed Italian was the master.

By Roy Terrell

Valeri

VALERI'S HIGH, HIGH JUMP

An 18-year-old Russian Olympian, who outleaped America's John Thomas in Rome, met him again in New York's Madison Square Garden last week, beat him again and, for an encore, equaled Thomas' world indoor record

By Walter Bingham

Angels

Far-out Band of Angels

The Pest

DUKE'S RED-HOT AND BLUE DEVIL

Basketball player Art Heyman, nicknamed The Pest, has stirred up a civil war in the Atlantic Coast Conference while transforming his school into a national power

By Ray Cave

Safe Driving: Part III

THE FUN OF FOUL WEATHER

Few persons in the world have had more success in overcoming hazardous road conditions than Miss Moss. Sister of Britain's Stirling Moss, she has twice been the European women's rally champion and has won numerous events in weather so foul that few cars finished. Whether negotiating an ice-glazed road in the Alps, as at the right, or an axle-deep ford in England (next page), she always is in command of her car, and you will be too if you use the techniques she describes below

By Pat Moss

Cards

Larceny at the table

By Charles Goren

Golf

The not-so-old oldsters

The seniors wax sentimental over their own tournament at Dunedin, but they play like the tigers of yore

By Alfred Wright

Spink

'TAYLOR SPINK IS FIRST-CLASS'

Who says so? Why, Mr. J. G. Taylor Spink himself; the colorful, volatile publisher of baseball's famed weekly newspaper, 'The Sporting News,' can just about prove he is absolutely right

By Gerald Holland

For The Record

A roundup of the sports information of the week

Acknowledgments

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Basketball's Week

Basketball's Week

By Mervin Hyman

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Pat On The Back

MARILYN SCHNEGGENBURGER

Neighborhood gym

Departments

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