February 24, 1964 Table Of Contents
Cover
Professional tour through June 19
Yesterday
Or so it seemed 10 years ago when Bevo Francis set national college basketball records that still stand
By Paul Stewart
Title Fight
Everybody is familiar with the public image of the challenger for Sonny Liston's heavyweight title: a loudmouth and braggart who spouts obvious verse. What Clay has seldom let the world see is the sober, ambitious man inside the child's skin. Here, at last, he reveals his true nature, in which zaniness is always a calculated ingredient
By Cassius Clay
A SPECIAL VIEW OF THE CAMP OF THE CHAMP
Sonny Liston is heavily favored to retain his championship, but it is a mistake to count Clay out until Sonny has nailed him. Clay is strong, and if he can avoid Liston's paralyzing left he can, just possibly, win
By Tex Maule
THE DIN, THE COLOR, THE MOOD OF INDOOR TRACK
People
Basketball
Five midgets and a wink at Nell
Johnny Wooden has parlayed those ingredients into the only unbeaten major college team in the country
Track & Field
From humdrum to well-done in one easy mile
An ordinary winter on the boards changed to one of excitement and anticipation when Tom O'Hara broke the world record in New York
Gem Of A River
THE COLUMBIA: a gem of a river
From Grand Coulee Dam to the sea, the Columbia is familiar, but in its little-known Canadian reaches it is a surging, mysterious stream that flows both north and south through a vast wilderness
Basketball's Week
By Mervin Hyman
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
Acknowledgments
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER