Publish date:: May 15, 1961

May 15, 1961 Table Of Contents

Author:: SI Staff

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A rugged Secretary of the Interior puts a posse of investigators in helicopters to visit remote and threatened Rainbow Bridge

By John O'Reilly

Odds And Dolls

ODDS AND DOLLS AND A FAST FINISH

Girl watching and gambling were as much a part of the show as the golf at Las Vegas' Tournament of Champions. Then along came Sam Snead and attention, at least for a moment, was focused on the game

By Alfred Wright

THE NEW TOMMY BOLT

Happy Girl

What Makes This Girl So Happy?

Tough Cookie

NOT SUCH A TOUGH COOKIE

His expression may be severe, but Cookie Lavagetto, the soft-spoken, swarthy manager of the currently impressive Minnesota Twins, is a man of warmth, humor and honesty

By Walter Bingham

Tire Salesman

A TIRE SALESMAN WITH HORSE SENSE

When the president of Firestone Tire & Rubber is not seated at a desk, he's astride a horse—except for one day each year, when his perch is a stack of racing tires at the Indianapolis '500'

By Huston Horn

Boxing

A smile and a shoeshine

Pete Rademacher came to town to wheel, deal and get kayoed. He may also have got 'middled'

By Gilbert Rogin

Boating

Bob and his marvelous monster

A bumptious millionaire from Detroit builds a jet boat to win back his own trophy

By Ray Cave

Cards

Improving on good

By Charles Goren

Hurley

DON'T CALL ME HONEST

Beginning the story of Jack Hurley, fight manager, fight promoter, public relations genius, notorious in the odd demimonde of boxing as a man who keeps his word

By Jack Olsen