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...Sport, where fans can be expected to know the score already, this week's stories isolate two great competitors: golf's Arnold Palmer, who has won more tournaments so far this season than anyone before him, and baseball's Stan Musial, who does not need the money, but is now breaking the biggest records after 21 years with the St. Louis Cardinals. Both men, incidentally, are old TIME cover characters revisited...
...down the runway, bound for St. Louis, the atmosphere inside was glum enough: the staggering Cardinals had just dropped a doubleheader to the Pittsburgh Pirates. It quickly got worse. Just 30 seconds after takeoff, a portside engine conked out, and Cardinal ballplayers stared tensely at the feathered prop. Only Stan Musial seemed unruffled. Grinning from ear to ear, he turned to a teammate: "I can see the headline now. CARDINAL PLANE CRASHES -MUSIAL LONE SURVIVOR...
...Musial's wry jest had come true two seasons back, no Cardinal fan would have been much surprised. At 41 and in his 21st big-league season, "Stan the Man" has survived long past a ballplayer's professional life expectancy. His contemporaries - Ted Williams, Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Owen, Jackie Robinson - are fishing, running bowling alleys, and collecting votes for the Hall of Fame. Yet Musial, his reflexes still sharp and his aging muscles still limber, keeps right on playing leftfield for the Cards with a young man's speed. And each time he uncoils from his familiar...
...battled to what he termed a "sweet victory," in an arduous match with Yale's seventh-seeded Hetherington 6-4, 4-3, 7-5. Hetherington had defeated him only a few days before. Ripley then smashed M.I.T.'s third-seeded Stan Aasnaos 6-3, 6-3, and upset the tournament favorite, Williams' Jim Botts...
...Crimson golfers managed to break 80 on the narrow and twisting 6800-yard Cornell course as the team registered its eighth win of the season. At number one, Bruce Johnstone marked up his ninth individual victory of the year by nipping Jeff Pass 1 up on the eighteenth hole. Stan Abrams' string of 11 straight triumphs was ended as he bowed to Dave Hamilton in the number two slot by a margin...