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...Santa Barbara, Calif. With an epic command of abusive language and a pistol in his pocket, Stillman presided from 1921 to 1959 over the gloomy New York City arena where Jack Dempsey, Georges Carpentier and Primo Camera-among thousands of others-worked out during their careers. "Big or small, champ or bum," he said, "I treated 'em all alike -bad. If you treat 'em like humans, they'll eat you alive...
...Pied Piper of physical fitness" is how he styles himself, but the man of Hamelin could never hold a flute to the Rev. Bob Richards. At 43, the former Olympic pole-vault champ and Wheaties pitchman is jogging and biking 3,000 miles across the U.S. in a one-man campaign "to get Americans off their duffs," as he puts it, and impress upon them the need for health-giving exercise. Last week, having already swum the turbulent Colorado River and trotted across the Rocky Mountains, he was in Indiana, heading relentlessly eastward toward New York. "At every stop," says...
...full eighteen holes, but the Crimson captain denied his opponent, Mike Porter, and opportunity to tie the match by winning the hole to triumph 2 up. LoPucki and Porter have played each other for three years, but this was LoPucki's first win over Porter, who was Easterns champ last year. However, neither played particularly impressive golf on Saturday...
TOURNAMENT OF CHAMPIONS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). A field including Jack Nicklaus, Arnold Palmer, Billy Casper, Lee Trevino and last year's champ Don January will be trying for the $30,000 first prize. Final round Sunday, 4-5:30 p.m. From La Cos ta Country Club, Rancho La Costa,Calif...
...forgotten Abilene." Nor had the town of Abilene forgotten its most illustrious son. For the burial, official decoration was modest, consisting of small flags hung on lampposts. Most stores put up signs saying "Closed in respect to Dwight Eisenhower." Such restraint, as TIME'S Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark noted, "does not mean that they were not proud of him or that they did not admire him tremendously. They did, both as the famous home-town boy and as a reflection of their own down-to-earth values. When Ike died, they reacted in their...