Lincoln (Nebraska)

Ken Cline, 13, of Lincoln, Neb., who wants to become a sports-car designer when he grows up, drove his flashy blue racer (made to look like an alligator) to a first-place finish at the All-American Soap Box Derby in...

TRACK & FIELD—Kansas had produced many an individual NCAA champion but never a team title—until last weekend at Lincoln, Neb., where hungry Jayhawks flew off with biggest prize (see page 16). Thirty big points were...

Fred Knorr, affable 42-year-old radio executive whose boyhood baseball ambition was thwarted by Depression, finally made big time—as head of 11-man syndicate which paid record price of $5,500,000 for Detroit Tigers.