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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
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    • 1957-05-20 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents May 20 1957

    1957/05/20 – Front cover features Gussie Busch and Friends at the Bridlespur Horse Show

  • Tragedy at the Mille Miglia — The death of the Marquis de Portago by William Rospigliosi
  • A Blunder Is Repaired – Basketball referee John K. Fraser is out by Martin Kane
  • Spectacle: Boats Unlimited in Detroit with color photographs by David Kitz and description by Nick Thimmesch
  • Alas, Poor Giants! — Dwindling crowds are chasing the Giants west by Robert Creamer
  • Fish Story at Coney Island – The new Aquarium is almost ready by John O’Reilly
  • Second Wind on Capitol Hill – A good many Congressmen have joined the fight for fitness
  • Bridlespur and Gussie Busch – A St. Louis classic in Color, plus a visit by Gerald Holland
  • The Second Round – Iron Liege has a task ahead of him in the Preakness by Whitney Tower
  • All Hail, Cornell – The Big Red’s record victory on Cayuga Lake by Don Parker
  • Part 2: The Lady and the Trout — Alfred Duggan renders The Treatise of Fishing with an Angle
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    • 1957-05-13 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents May 13 1957

    1957/05/13 – Front cover features Billy Pierce of the Chicago White Sox

  • Part 1 of 4: The Lady and the Trout — In the 15th Century, the literature of angling began with a Benedictine nun. An eminent historian, Alfred Duggan, introduces Dame Juliana Berners
  • The Baby Comes Into His Own – Iron Liege’s Derby: a triumph of courage and skill by Whitney Tower
  • How You, Willie? by Catherine Drinker Bowen about the charm of Derby time
  • A Punch for History — The incredible Sugar Ray Robinson is again middleweight champ after KOing Gene Fullmer by Martin Kane
  • High Wire to the Glacier World – A skiing adventure, in color, and the Footloose Sportsman in Chamonix
  • Chicago’s Go-Sox Go Again – If not the team to beat, at least they were the team to catch by Roy Terrell
  • Italian Duel – A preview of the year’s first big European road races by William Rospigliosi
  • ‘Racing Is a Vice” – A dashing young driver, Alfonso de Portago, eulogizes his sport
  • Foul Weather and Fair – There’s a brand new sporting look for sailors
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    • 1957-05-27 Sports Illustrated Magazine Contents May 27 1957

    1957/05/27 – Front cover features Preview of the Indianapolis 500 featuring National Champion Driver Jim Bryan

  • Speed and Indianapolis by Kenneth Rudeen
  • In a Paris Wood – The Bois de Boulogne has something for both Parisians and tourists, with photos by Robert Doisneau and story by Horace Sutton
  • The Wonderful World of Sport
  • The Ruler Is Restored – how a trainer and a jockey lifted a temperamental champion to new heights in Pimlico’s 81st Preakness – About Bold Ruler, Eddie Arcaro and Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons by Whitney Tower
  • Don Hoak – Then and Now by Roy Terrell
  • One Town’s Secret – An old-fashioned formula for fitness pays off in Newtown, Connecticut by Dorothy Stull
  • Part 3 of 4: The Lady and the Trout — John McDonald and Dwight A. Webster recontruct the Berners flies, and John Langley Howard paints them in four pages in color
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