January 06, 1958 | Volume 8, Issue 1

BILL MAULDIN TOURS THE CARIBBEANBeginning a lively three-part series on the happy adventures of a flying father, his two sons and a plane named 99-Pete

Barry MacKay, who very nearly missed the trip, was the big news as the U.S. failed to win back the Davis Cup. His team captain here-calls him the hope of tennis

The air was full of elbows and ankles from coast to coast for basketball's annual holiday tournaments, and quite possibly the worst team had the best player

•Powel Crosley Jr., owner of the Cincinnati Redlegs: "I'm liable to wove the Redlegs. Every other club in the National League would love to see us move to New York."

Dr. Henry Schmitz, University of Washington president, took searching look at foundering Pacific Coast Conference, called for early dissolution of the 42-year-old PCC after withdrawals of...

Left hook to jaw by Ralph (Tiger) Jones stuns 3rd-ranked Contender Joey Giardello in the first round of 10-round middleweight bout at Miami Beach. But Giardello slugged out a bruising, bloody,...

BASKETBALL

VITAL STATISTICS

So many Rookeries have sprung up across the 6,000-mile banana belt stretching from Maui to Martinique that a sun-seeker heading south in winter must decide just what sort of bird he really is. To...

A young girl running like a deer, joyously, along a sandy path that leads to a tropical sea...Hollywood at the bullfights...a great fish leaping out of clear blue water into a clear blue sky:...

BOXING

• • • • • • • •

There are many of them, from the Pacific's South Sea Isles to the storied Caribbean. Besides some 138 regularly scheduled cruises, 20 shipping lines of a dozen nations send their most luxurious...

Turn to page 56 for Carleton Mitchell's story of a cruise through the Bahama Islands aboard the racer Finisterre.

No matter how he travels for the rest of his life, Bill Mauldin will always to some extent be associated with the earthbound jeep, which at times played almost as dominant a role in his cartoons...

Some are for water, some only for show, but all fit the sun

Nor rain nor cold nor reluctant birds could stop these spaniels from brisk completion of their top contest: the National Field Trial Championships

There are four types of skiers who ought to try the Hoodoo Ski Bowl: skiing families who like an area with low-budget tow prices and dormitory rates; experts who like to bushwhack through fresh...

1—George Moffett2—U.P., European (2), U.P., I.N.P.3—U.P., A.P.4—George Moffett5—Jim Hosmer6—Robert W. Kelly-LIFE13—Herald-Sun (Melbourne)14—U.P., A.P., U.P.15—Ormond Gigli from Rapho-Guillumette,...

.

The development of a golf swing, as everybody knows, is a highly complicated procedure. Obviously precision is its essence, and a part of the precision necessary to make contact with the ball is...

This week's exercise, thigh rotation, designed and demonstrated here by Bonnie Prudden, will help strengthen your legs and make them firmer and more attractive. The rotating motion also increases...

SO—season opens SC—season closes C—clear water D—water dirty, roily N—water normal height SH—slightly high H—high VH—very high M—water muddy L—low R—rising WT50—water 50° FG—fishing good...

S—snow R—rain F—freeze-up T—temperature SF—spotty flight FF—fair flight GF—good flight EF—excellent flight GDW—good duck weather SC—season closes (or closed) BW—bluebird weather PG—poor gunning...

Sirs:We, the members of the Hungarian National Olympic Team, who came to the United States after choosing freedom at the close of the 1956 Olympic Games at Melbourne (SI, Dec. 3, 1956) and now...

Mrs. Louis Lengfeld, in the opinion of her friends, has not slowed down since she was one of San Francisco's top golfers. Mother of three and grandmother of four, her lifetime of devotion to golf...

[TV]TV [COLOR TV]COLOR TV [NETWORK RADIO]NETWORK RADIO

RIVES S. MATTHEWSSkillman, N.J.WriterNo! Just as the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey, with his studies of the sexes, stopped the Marxian trend to a classless society, so the fox will become, as suburbia...

... planned for Canada, the U.S. and Europe through April

An adult male bicyclist suffers some privations—and rewards—as a member of a minority group

Thirty-three years" ago this week, 9,000 fans at the old Madison Square Garden in New York stood up and roared their approval as Paavo Nurmi, Finland's great distance runner, glided home, winner...