December 23, 1957 | Volume 7, Issue 26

The Lions and 49ers survived and the Colts died as professional football's friskiest season races to a playoff for the Western title

Powder snow and posh hotels beckon winter travelers to Switzerland's Bernese Oberland

Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, 18th Baron Dunsany, was a man of commanding stature, fiery temperament, and a soul as gentle as the elves and leprechauns in which he firmly believed. He saw...

To all of you—A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! It's never been more of a pleasure to say it, and for one reason, because it gives me a chance to tell you of some of the things to come in...

Football coaching's winter rite—contract jumping—is now at its frenetic height

CALIFORNIAN LINDLEY BOTHWELL OWNS AND RACES FINE OLD CARS THAT KINDLE NOSTALGIC MEMORIES OF A LUSTY TIME

Golf is not a reflex action, but the nearer you can get your game to it, the better. In the actual striking of the ball, very little extra thought is needed to supplement the plan you've...

DAVIS CUP: THE SPORTING THINGSirs:According to SPORTS ILLUSTRATED and Bill Talbert, the U.S. Davis Cup team is about to be defeated in Australia, because three U.S. players refused to join the...

Traditional enemies on the gridiron, Annapolis and West Point got together recently in the persons of their superintendents—Rear Admiral William R. Smedberg III and Lieutenant General Garrison...

Two heavy-footed girls and a fuzzy-cheeked boy stole the stage in Nassau's Speed Week

Each year as cold winds whip down the Atlantic Coast tens of thousands of Canada geese drop into the waters of Currituck Sound along the isolated shores at Corolla, N.C. Here, on a strip of sand...

The ungentle athlete (right) who is testing the strength of Madison Square Garden's sideboards with a Chicago Black Hawk is Lou Fontinato of the New York Rangers. He serves the pony-weight Rangers...

In the prize money last week was World Champion Bowler Don Carter (above), who won $5,000 and the World Invitational Match Game Bowling Championship in Chicago's Coliseum before a national TV...

A Symbol and a Word

Deep in their inner fiber Americans still remember the vanished frontier, and measure their heroes against its hard and simple attitudes; the leathery "old pro" rather than the dashing amateur is...

Mickey Mantle's curse is comparison. Critics used to complain that he wasn't as good as Joe DiMaggio, his predecessor as bell cow of the New York Yankees. This year Mantle saved the Yanks with his...

Seldom in sports history have two careers so closely paralleled and duplicated one another as those of the National League's Sportsman of the Year Musial and the American League's stormy genius...

•Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State football coach: "In our first three games this season we didn't have a single fumble. In our fourth, the Purdue game, we fumbled 10 times. That shows you what an...

The old football soothsayer reviews a season in which the unexpected was the rule and brings on some coaching friends to help figure out what happened

ARIZONA STATEAUBURNIOWAMICHIGAN STATEMISSISSIPPINAVYNOTRE DAMEOHIO STATEOKLAHOMARICETEXAS

Miami sparkles and swells and toots like a calliope at this time of year with its annual Orange Bowl extravaganza—a fine and final tribute to King Football

Jack Dempsey, hard-hitting old heavyweight champ who still packs wallop for fans who remember when The Game was more of a sport, has been voted James J. Walker Memorial Award for "long and...

MEN'S SINGLES

FOOTBALL

Here is your TV screen for the bowl games. Save this chart and the scouting reports following for use during the games

TENNESSEE vs. TEXAS A&M (Dec. 28). Both accent rugged defenses and power running. Vols have no one to match Aggie Back John Crow and will be outweighed some 15 pounds to the man up front....

OKLAHOMA

OHIO STATE

NAVY

BOXING

MISSISSIPPI

TEXAS A&M

This fable in words and drawings by the talented TV actor FRED GWYNNE is dedicated to all dogs who feel they have been misjudged in the show ring. But humans can learn a lesson from it, too

Two years ago Loveland Basin was just a place with a lot of snow and a couple of rope tows snuggled up against the east side of the Continental Divide.

4—A.P. (2), Rocco Morabito-Jacksonville Journal, European, D. D. Schroeder5—Bob Bourdon, Max Peter Haas6—Jim Katzel12, 13—A.P. (4), U.P. (2)18—I.N.P. (2), Richard Meek19—U.P., A.P.21—Richard...

Here's a brand new idea in home fun: cutting out and pasting up bears, lions, tigers, moose and what have you on flip-top cigaret boxes. It's easy to do, it's lots of fun, and it's a wonderful way...

Twenty-five years ago this month a college football season had just come to an end and the seniors who had won football letters were getting ready, come their graduation, to launch out on lifetime...

Twenty-five men of achievement surveyed the career achievements of football seniors of 25 years ago

It was a time of change at home and abroad, of diplomas in hand and work ahead, just 9,000 days and nights ago

WILLIAM J. GILBANEBrownConstruction company executive, Providence

A determined biologist mastered the art of wildlife photography to capture the color of America's first holiday bird

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The most elusive game bird, photographed on the preceding pages, makes one of the most festive of holiday meals. Here's how to do him justice

If you and your friends want to relax and watch the bowl games on New Year's Day, make it easy and comfortable for them (and for you). Mrs. William F. Talbert, wife of our Davis Cup team captain,...

The graceful turns shown in this final chapter on the Austrian shortswing as taught by Willy Schaeffler are the culmination of all the lessons learned in Parts One and Two. They are the most...

MRS. WILLIAM A. SWIACKIWife of former Columbia endI certainly would. My husband's career at Columbia University, plus pro football with the New York Giants and the Detroit Lions, was a stepping...

English Jockey Sir Gordon Richards rode 12 consecutive winners and set two world records which have never been bettered