February 29, 1960 | Volume 12, Issue 9

Eugenio Monti, 32, Italian bobsledder who won recent world, U.S. titles, skidded down Lake Placid chute with U.S. Teammate Charlie Pandolph in record 1:10.49 trial run, then added North American...

BASEBALL—CUBA, with Washington Senators' Camilo Pascual pitching a one-hit, 4-0 shutout over Puerto Rico in the final, Caribbean World Series, Panama.

4—Martin Nathan, Art Shay8—A.P.10—Publifoto, George Thompson, Bill Kuenzel-Miami Herald, Tony Triolo, Harry T. Holbrook-Boston Globe, Jan Brunner-Mt Tremblant Lodge, Fred Lyon from...

As the end of the college basketball season neared, vengeful underdogs rose to vent their wrath on season-long leaders. Georgia Tech, West Virginia, Utah State, Texas A&M, North Carolina and...

All times E.S.T.

From the first, it was apparent that these Winter Olympics were not going to lack revolutionary fervor. The fabled Russians, doped to win almost half of the 27 gold medals, were winning medals all...

The ladies' downhill course, snaking through 20 flag-topped control gates on KT-22 mountain, had so many carefully contrived hazards that one skier called it "a forest of flags." As it turned out,...

The Daytona "500" stock-car race was so wild and woolly that even the oldtime drivers were impressed

Spectacle of Magic

Duffy Daugherty, Michigan State football coach, after a day at Santa Anita racetrack: "The only place where windows clean people."

He is," Jack Twyman wrote of Maurice Stokes to Staff Writer Jerry Tax, "particularly proud of Art Shay's photo of himself standing alone. It occupies a prominent spot in his room as a constant...

Aside from paddy-wagon chauffeurs who couldn't care less, almost everybody who has ever taken the wheel of an automobile has suffered under the nervous nagging of the back-seat driver.

A former Russian princess who is an active sportswoman has devised this special adaptation of a classic Russian dish

The Winter Games have brought out some of the most elegant skins ever seen anywhere, along with a few costumes that would startle a zoo-keeper

The tattered poster from which Carmen Basilio, once the welterweight and middleweight champion of the world, regards passers-by with his sour gaze, is on the wall of an empty tenement on New...

Walter O'Malley can afford it. Last year, his jolly Dodger crew made more money than any other team in baseball history

Hurrying toward national fame, the Hoosier swimmers beat mighty Michigan In a fine meet

Despite its lethal appearance, the blunt instrument below is no policeman's cudgel. It is, rather, something of a paradox—a golf club without a clubhead, and a club, moreover, that was designed...

An Australian stole the show, but three Americans set world marks, too, as the indoor track season reached its climax. The U.S. looks better than ever

The nomenclature of contract bridge is full of colorful terms borrowed from other sports. For example, the play that makes an opponent surrender a trick because he cannot guard two suits at the...

Valuable assistance in the preparation of this article was given by Rube Samuelsen, sports columnist of the Pasadena Independent Star-News and Arnott Duncan of the Arizona Republic.

TRACK & FIELD—Under a scorching sun in Melbourne, Herb Elliott, who has run 12 sub-four-minute miles, won the Victorian State mile title by 50 yards with a 0:55 final quarter that carried him...

LEGENDS, MEMORIES AND THE RECORDSirs:Robert Cantwell's article (The Poet, the Bums and the Legendary Red Men, SI, Feb. 15) on Marianne Moore and the Carlisle Indians brought back many memories. I...

'To maintain Olympic ideals'

KAYE KESSLERThe Columbus Citizen-JournalColumbus, OhioDefinitely, but generally unconsciously. Many are influenced by crowd reactions; some are intimidated by the home coach. The official who is...

John Kieran's New York is a delightful jungle of living things, from algae to minks