June 26, 1961 | Volume 14, Issue 25

Peering down as intently as a myopic bookworm reading close print in a dark library, the passenger member of this Swiss sidecar motorcycle team seems to be interested only in a closer look at the...

If the sports celebrities assembled for this unique group portrait appear to be frozen in apprehension, it might be because Alfred Arthur Rouse, the Blazing Car Murderer, and George Joseph Smith,...

This two-headed monster, swathed in what looks like synthetic yak hide, is Marlin and Mike McKeever, the identical twins who were All-America football players at the University of Southern...

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Fiery Don Hoak is having his best year, but the Pirates are not the same "Beat 'Em Bucs" who won last year. Walter Bingham analyzes Hoak's success and Pittsburgh's troubles.

For the rider of jumping horses, every fence, every class and every show presents its special challenge. But the greatest of tests is Aachen in Germany, the scene this week of the Silver Jubilee...

So says Herb Elliott, the Australian four-minute miler. In his autobiography, 'The Golden Mile,' which caused such a stir when it appeared in England (Thomas Nelson & Sons will publish the...

Gazpacho," Alice B. Toklas was told in a Seville bookstore during one of her trips with Gertrude Stein, "is eaten in Spain only by peasants and Americans." The writer and her friend had tried this...

For the first time in 40 years, the collegiate championships were held on the Atlantic seaboard. Seven records later, everyone—or almost everyone—conceded it wasn't such a bad idea after all

At Le Mans, America's Phil Hill won his second 24-hour race—the last for prototype cars

Cornell was close, Navy was lost as the Golden Bears won their second straight IRA championship

A few days before last month's Indianapolis 500-mile auto race, Rodger Ward, winner in 1959 and second in 1960, was visibly nervous. His trouble, however, was not the forthcoming race. He was on...

THE RIGHT TO PLAY

•Nate Dolin, a vice-president of the Cleveland Indians, trying to find a happy note in the sagging attendance (down more than 100,000 from 1960) at Indian home games at Municipal Stadium:...

Bob Sandler, 42, of Des Moines, Iowa, a onetime tennis champion despite the loss of his right arm at age 11, became the first American to win the British Society of One-Armed Golfers title,...

BASEBALL—SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA, with Jim Withers pitching, shut out Oklahoma State 1-0 in fifth game of series to become the first college to win three NCAA championships, in Omaha. The losing...

6—Des Moines Register (1)14—Art Shay15-17—Hy Peskin18, 19—A.P.22—U.P.I., Allan Grant-LIFE45—Art Rickerby-Pix46—A.F.P.-Gilloon47—A.P.52-58—Jerry Cooke61—A.P.62—Bettmann Archive64—John...

Little League graduate Joey Jay and big league rookie Ken Hunt shot the surprising back into first place. Jay's eighth consecutive win prompted his former boss, Phillies' GM John Quinn, who...

IN HARNESSSirs:One of the finest exhibitions of reporting I have ever read (Shep Tangles with the Boys, June 5). Everyone in Pennsylvania harness racing should realize the position in which they...

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An 86-year-old Frenchwoman named Marie Marvingt has spent a lifetime courting adventure