Bill Ficker

PHILS, PRESENT AND PASTSirs:Your article, Hot Team in the Old Town (April 29), was excellent—except for one point. Philadelphia does not like a loser. Just look at professional football. The Eagles have averaged...

AN IDEAL YACHT CLUB SHOULD BE AN INTEGRAL PART OF THE SPORT IT IS DESIGNED FOR. IN THE MODEL PICTURED HERE, AND ON THE FOLLOWING PAGES, A FORMER STAR CLASS RACING CHAMPION WHO IS ALSO A LEADING CALIFORNIA ARCHITECT...

The place was Newport, and they were having a sailing race, but there were no Mosbachers around nor even any Australians. It was Newport Beach, Calif. and the pick of the nation's small-boat sailors were competing...

Nancie Rideout, 20, shapely Cypress Gardens, Fla. water skier, was in rare form at national championships in Pine Mountain, Ga., winning slalom, tricks event and completing grand slam with world record 89-foot jump.