
March 21, 1966 Table Of Contents
Footloose
New Orleans—a mixture of the old and the new and all that Dixie jazz
By M. R. Werner
Yesterday
For Yankees, for Yale and for Soose
By Frank Graham Jr.
Booktalk
Pretty posies will never sweeten the smell of our many polluted lakes and rivers
Now There Are Four
In the battle for the national basketball championship only Duke, Kentucky, Utah and Texas Western survive. If last week's pattern is confirmed, the final round at College Park will be the hottest in years
By Frank Deford
Hockey's Moment
HOCKEY'S BIGGEST MOMENT NO. 51
After losing out because of an injury last year, after a season-long buildup this year, and after weeks of near misses, heightening pressure and agonizing frustration, Bobby Hull finally broke the Rocket's record
By Martin Kane
IT'S ONE POINT SIX PICK UP STICKS
When the NCAA tries to raise the academic standards of athletes one group, the Ivy League, protests, 'Who needs it?' The result is a stormy controversy in which the Ivies, says the author, are wrong
By Dan Jenkins
Tradin' Man
TRADIN' PLATERS IS MR. VAN'S GAME
Marion Van Berg never started a horse at Aqueduct or Santa Anita, but last year he won more money and more races than anyone else
By Jack Mann
Porpoises
The versatile mammals of Sea Life Park in Hawaii are acting somewhat like Seeing Eye dogs. Scientists are experimenting with the animals in an attempt to aid the blind, with hope of defining and somehow simulating the porpoise's intricate built-in sonar system
Bridge
Remember, the enemy is eavesdropping
People
Diving
Defying custom and brandishing wild ideas, Diving Coach Hobie Billingsley has confounded his rivals by producing national champions
By Herman Weiskopf
Horse Racing
Old Johnny Longden, his hail and farewell
After nearly 40 years as a jockey, during which he won a record 6,032 races, the grandfather retired from competition. But not before he gave the fans at Santa Anita a last ride that defeated the Hollywood scripts
By Jack Tobin
The Thing
A son's fond reminiscence of his dad's colorful career as a professional wrestler (left, bleeding) and of a summer spent with Frank Jares on the road, where Joe learned there are some real dangers involved, too
By Joe Jares
Basketball's Week
By Mervin Hyman
For The Record
A roundup of the sports information of the week
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By Garry Valk