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March 6, 1972 Table Of Contents

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Tom Swift

TOM SWIFT AND HIS MAGIC WANDS

Strange things happened when he waved his driver, and his irons were hardly miraculous, but Tom Weiskopf was pure alchemist when his putter turned a day's work into $52,000 in Gleason gold

By Dan Jenkins

IT MAY BE SHORT BUT IT ISN'T SWEET

The 60-yard dash takes six seconds to run, but what with the psyching out before and the acrimony afterward, it lasts an eternity

By Pat Putnam

HIS MAJESTY GETS MUGGED AGAIN

And again and again. That's life for the king of the Black Hawks, Bobby Hull, who protests the shadowing he receives as no fun for him and a poor hockey show. Still, last week he scored his 40th goal

By Mark Mulvoy

Big Bill

Big Bill Loves to Eat 'em Up

A shy young man with a huge appetite, UCLA's superstar feeds the Bruins' fast break and feasts on their foes

By William F. Reed

Out of Africa and onto the Angry Ice

A Long Way

A LONG WAY, BÉBÉ

Mlle. Durr's strokes are bizarre, but she won $65,000 last year and now ranks high on the Virginia Slims tour

By Edwin Shrake

People

PEOPLE

College Basketball

Marshall's Herd is being heard

By William F. Reed

THE WEEK

By Harold Peterson

Wrestling

Very big man on campus

Chris Taylor of Iowa State is proving that the bigger you are the harder it is to be felled—but you may need a meat scale to weigh in

By Herman Weiskopf

Bridge

My stars shone bright in Las Vegas

By Charles Goren

Baseball

It ain't necessarily so, and never was

Baseball's sacred percentages are under attack by a scholar-heretic, Earnshaw Cook, who, armed with his iconoclast's computer, says nuts to the sacrifice bunt and the practice of starting starting pitchers

By Frank Deford

Pro Football

An odd ball for this bunch

It's no oblate spheroid, but it takes some funny bounces when tackles try to dribble it, as Dave Costa of the Denver Broncos will testify

By Robert H. Boyle

For The Record

A roundup of the week Feb. 22-28

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Departments

SCORECARD

Edited by Robert W. Creamer

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