May 02, 1960 | Volume 12, Issue 18

MORE AND MORE DAYLIGHT

Bob Porterfield, aging (35) onetime big league pitcher, on the start of a twilight career in the minors: "I made up my mind long ago that when it was over, this was the way I'd come down the...

Baseball was off to a flashy start with a big trade, a stirring comeback, spectacular home runs and some fine pitching. But no performance was as glittering as that of 41-year-old Ted Williams

Middleweight Champion Gene Fullmer retained his title but not all of his reputation in one of the rowdiest brawls in boxing history

Cincinnatus, who lends his name to an Ohio city, was a peaceable Roman most of the time. But when obliged to defend the right, he would rear up and swap smites with anybody. Of a similar stripe...

Running before a 30-knot wind on San Francisco Bay, the skipper of the yawl Baruna commanded the spinnaker lowered away. As the wire halyard suspending the balloonlike sail began to pay out, the...

"If my parole comes through, I'd like to play for your team," wrote one man. Said another: "I'm not fast and I don't have much ability, but I try like hell." So ran dozens of earnest entreaties to...

•A thousand-mile cruise by outboard from Seattle to the great glaciers and towering icebergs of Alaska, with a cruise map and details on how to get there and what to see.

In Kentucky it's called the Derby; in London, the Darby; in "Joisey," the Doiby. In reality it is only one of 27 derbies run in North America, only one of 39 races with a value of $100,000, only...

Late in 1953 a TIME Inc. editor wrote a memo. He was part of an experimental project aimed at the publication of a new magazine.

The week of May 1 to 7 has been designated by President Eisenhower as National Youth Fitness Week, and the happy family shown at right is making its own special and significant contribution to it....

New Cast, New Critics

When a bridge session suddenly explodes into a series of wild distributions, players say, "The devil has got into the cards." To beat the devil, tournaments like the current World Bridge Olympiad...

Battery-packin' pistol gives Olympic shooters hope for bloodless win over Russians

Paavo Kotila, 32-year-old farmer from Veteli, Finland, earns victory-wreath after outstriding 166 other long-distance runners in 26-mile Boston marathon. "After the first five miles it was easy,"...

Illinois beat New York in a game that reminded old-timers of the bloody past

All limes are E.D.T.

BASKETBALL—ST. LOUIS HAWKS, who change coaches almost with the seasons, got their 14th in 13 years when fidgety Owner Ben Kerner confirmed pro basketball's worst-kept secret. Easy Ed Macauley, who...

4—Walter Daran6—DuRoma Studios, A.P.7—A.P., U.P.I., Jimmy Banks, Cloyd Teter-Denver Post, Ray Matjasic14, 15—A.P., Dick Darcey-The Washington Post, John G. Zimmerman21—Armand Bertin29—Herb...

SHABBY SHOWSirs:You may have verified or changed your opinion of the Snead-Rudolph golf match after viewing the recent rerun on NBC.

'A Thoroughbred come back'

EVERETT A. CLAYHialeah Race CoursePublic relations director and secretaryDave Erb on Needles in 1956. Erb was off last in a field of 17 starters. He was next to last midway down the back-stretch....

Cynthia Lindsay survived her days as a movie stunt woman to become a magazine writer, author and mother of two. Her books include Mother Climbed Trees and her latest, The Natives Are Restless,...