September 17, 1962 | Volume 17, Issue 12

DELAYED REACTION

•Australia's Percival Galea, a big bettor, after dropping $75.300 on the horses: "They are only getting some of their own money back. I've won about $450.000 recently."

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In a conventional and good Detroit year, Buick and Studebaker are contesting Ford's Thunderbird market in the sports-luxury field

Like 'Weatherly's' skipper, Bus Mosbacher (above), the world will be watching this week as Australia's 'Gretel' bids for the America's Cup

Naval Architect Philip Rhodes is a methodical man who keeps a record of every telephone call that ever came into his office. One item in his notebook, dated July 18, 1957, reads: "Mr. H. D. Mercer...

When it was first announced in October 1959, by Field Marshal Sir William Slim, then Australia's Governor General and Commodore of the Royal Sydney Yacht Squadron, Australia's challenge for the...

If life imitated art or, at least, B pictures, the handsome athlete would wind up with the gorgeous chick, holding hands by the automatic dishwasher, listening to the kids gurgling over the family...

Everything at the national singles championships was better this year, so it was no surprise when Rod Laver (below) became the second man in history to grab a Grand Slam

The big chestnut colt from California shows he's the best of our 2-year-olds while the little man from Panama is unjustly set down

It used to be that it was only the number of spots on the pasteboards that mattered, but the ladies have now become the principal buyers and users of playing cards, and some strange and exotic...

It is a shame as well as a waste that sturgeon fishermen do not make their own caviar. Most of the larger fish are fairly bursting with roe, and the recipe is not particularly difficult. In...

AUTO RACING—LARRY FRANK of Greenville, S.C. was the winner of the Southern 500-mile NASCAR race in Darlington. S.C, but it took him a long time (see page 13). Nearly seven hours after Robert...

18-23—Steve Schapiro-Black Star25—Phil Bath40—Jerry Taylor42, 43—Richard Meek, drawing by Francis Golden44—Tony Triolo45—Keystone Press51, 52—Wil Blanche60—Phil Bath79—John A. Pratt, C. Cowles,...

Dicksie Hoyt, 16, won the national girls' water-ski-jumping title by leaping 82 feet at Callaway Gardens, Ga. A week later the New Jersey high school senior took (he North American girls' title at...

AMERICAN LEAGUEIt was hardly the place you would expect to find Jack Kennedy, but there he was in Washington with a bat in hand playing his first major league game. He swung with typical Kennedy...

ON THE BEACHSirs:We thoroughly enjoyed every word of your write-up of Newport Beach, Calif. (Boom Beach on the Blue Pacific, Sept. 3). But one objection we have to your TRAVEL FACTS is the glaring...

An America's Cup quiz to excite the memory and increase the knowledge of casual fans and armchair experts

It was launched long before Cape Canaveral, long before astronauts and Telstar, but it's just possible that Chet's crazy "satellite" is still in orbit