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April 24, 1972 Table Of Contents

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Footloose

Time once again for mushroom fiends to start beating the bushes of Boyne

By Tom Dammann

Yesterday

How Baseball Sent Its Hop to War

By Irvin Muchnick

Bombs Away

BOMBS AWAY OUT WEST

Milwaukee blew open the first game and someone threatened to blow up the arena in the third. But at the end of four, the series was even—with the biggest explosions to come

By Peter Carry

AND ON THE 10th DAY THEY PLAYED BALL

By Robert H. Boyle

DOWN AND OUT FOR MINNESOTA

The North Stars lost Goalie Gump Worsley and ultimately their savage Stanley Cup series to St. Louis as Minnesota's home-ice edge evaporated in overtime of the seventh game. The Blues' reward? The Bruins

By Mark Mulvoy

Over And Over

OVER AND OVER AGAIN

On successive weekends, Vaulter Kjell Isaksson exceeded a world record that had lasted 18 months

By Roy Blount Jr.

Sea Of Dreams

SAILING ON A SEA OF DREAMS

Getting away from it all, an idle reverie to most of us, is a way of life for Warwick (Commodore) Tompkins. Whenever he feels landlocked he puts to sea, and someday he may decide to stay out there

By Coles Phinizy

The Bushes

CAN'T BEAT THE BUSHES

SMALL TIME IS BIG ENOUGH

By Roy Blount Jr.

People

PEOPLE

Golf

Bracing for a rich breakthrough

By Barry McDermott

Fencing

'Tis far better to waste than be wasted

That, in a stab, is the philosophy of Tyrone Simmons, the country's finest collegiate fencer. His weapon is the foil and if he keeps sponging up the tricks of his trade he'll soon be wasting the world's best

By Don Delliquanti

Dogs

School for problem pups

Don't give up on a wayward gundog. See Jack MacKintosh, who curbs the recalcitrant, soothes the frightened and teaches one and all

By Robert H. Boyle

For The Record

A roundup of the week April 11-17

19th Hole: The Readers Take Over

19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER

Departments

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER

By J. Richard Munro

SCORECARD

Edited by Robert W. Creamer

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