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1957-05-06 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents May 6 1957

1957/05/06 – Front cover features Kentucky Derby Preview – The Calumet Cavalry vs. Bold Ruler

Preview: The Kentucky Derby –

  • A Year of Greatness by Whitney Tower
  • Spectacle: Four pages of Derby Day in Color by Richard Meek
  • You Should Know about juleps — and bourbon by Ed Zern
  • The Wonderful World of Sport
  • The $10,000 Elephant by William Negley – the author successfully hunts and elephant with bow and arrow
  • Curlicues Are in Bloom by Kenneth Rudeen about brand new racetracks
  • Rhonda: A Floating Fantasy by Ezra Bowen about the “Rhonda III” tailored to the tastes of Shipbuilding Executive Robert I. Ingalls Jr.
  • The Sad Song of Bobby by Robert Creamer is about Manager Bobby Bragan
  • Teedeeuk the Blue Jay by Dr. William J. Long and illustrated by Arthur Singer
  • Colossal Calumet
  • Part 3 of 3: The Tex Rickard Story by Charles Samuels
  • Plus Departments containing semi-regular features