April 24, 1972 Table Of Contents
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
Bombs Away
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
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
On successive weekends, Vaulter Kjell Isaksson exceeded a world record that had lasted 18 months
By Roy Blount Jr.
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
The Bushes
By Roy Blount Jr.
People
Golf
Bracing for a rich breakthrough
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
Dogs
Don't give up on a wayward gundog. See Jack MacKintosh, who curbs the recalcitrant, soothes the frightened and teaches one and all
For The Record
A roundup of the week April 11-17
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Departments
By J. Richard Munro
Edited by Robert W. Creamer