Next Week

A special year-end issue marks the close of 1971 with the kind of dash the decade's start deserves. The Sportsman of the Year is named, a flashing figure with verve to spare. A distinctive pictorial essay captures a quality in sport that is lacking in all too much of our society. Charlie Goren offers his annual Christmas quiz, the bowl games are reviewed, with a long look at the smasher between No. 1 and No. 2, the news is covered, highlighted by Miami vs. Baltimore in a pro football showdown week. And, as a final plus, a literary find....

Ernest Hemingway's African Journal, part one of three excerpts from a remarkable unpublished work based on the author's 1953 Kenya safari.