August 01, 1966 | Volume 25, Issue 5

In the week following his record race young Jim Ryun discovers the joys—and hazards—of owning the most treasured mark in all of sport

The sailplane pilot lives in a unique, soundless world of clouded beauty and three-dimensional exhilaration. Once released from the lumbering towplane (see next page), there is only the man in his...

A Huge Linebacker by the name of Frank Emanuel, a dolphin and Sally Rand's former press agent are helping to build the AFL's newest team in football-mad Miami.

Like dragonflies usurping a hornet's nest, the sailplanes took over Stead Air Force Base near Reno last month for the U.S. National Soaring Championships. Sixty-five of them lay beside the jet...

Thundering down the greensward, muscles abulge, came last year's Mr. Universe, covering the 40 yards in 4.8. Not bad—but not so good that the Baltimore Colts could find room at fullback for...

Over the years this magazine has been privileged to command the services of the most talented sports photographers on earth, but we are forced to concede that they all have lacked one talent...

Beating his elders in the Brooklyn Handicap, Ogden Phipps's bright 3-year-old moves up to 10th on the earnings list and could become—with two more wins in August—the youngest millionaire in history

BOATING—When all the mathematics were done, Huey A. Long's veteran 57-foot campaigner ONDINE was declared overall winner of the first 3,400-mile transatlantic race from Bermuda to Copenhagen....

4—Jim Ryun-Topeka Capital-Journal12-17—Walter Iooss Jr.18—Walter Iooss Jr., Tony Tomsic19—Walter Iooss Jr.22—Neil Leifer25—Leviton-Atlanta28-36—Constantine Manos-Magnum38—Richard Pipes-Houston...

Allan F. Catrell, a welder at Pearl Harbor, baited his hook with tuna and squid belly and began surf casting off Kahuku Point, Oahu. Nine hours later he reeled in an 18-pound one-ounce bone-fish...

AMERICAN LEAGUE

Mike Shannon of the St. Louis Cardinals has finally begun to earn his stripes—if not yet his stars—as Stan Musial's replacement. Always an outstanding defensive outfielder with an exceptionally...

SECOND STRINGSirs:The 1966 All-Star Game ends in yet another frustrating defeat for the American League and thousands of loyal American League fans must wonder why.

Several years ago a book by Richard Jessup called The Cincinnati Kid won acclaim for the deceptive simplicity with which it zeroed in on the High Noon suspense of two gamblers and their poker...

AIN'T PEACE WONDERFUL?

•Harold Paddock, teaching pro from Cleveland, after shooting an 84 in the first round of the PGA: "I missed so many putts out there I was afraid to eat lunch for fear I'd miss my mouth."

The British sportsman out for a roving tour with a bundle of assorted fishing rods, and wanting to know where to fish, does the sensible thing and consults a volume called Where to Fish, which is...

Earl Cooper was a little man who weighed 120 pounds—but he became a giant when he drove a big white Stutz