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August 2, 1981

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Entertainment
IT'S SO, JOE: THE BLACK SOX SCANDAL HAS COME OUT SWINGING AS AN OPERA
By Robert W. Creamer
Booktalk
A WORK THAT ADDRESSES THE NEEDS OF BASEBALL AUTOGRAPH COLLECTORS
By Alexander Wolff
Blue-Chip Horses
THE $40,000,000 HORSE
In a racing world gone slightly mad, the Aga Khan was offered that amount for his superhorse, Shergar, but disdained it, and an English plunger, Robert Sangster, paid $3.5 million for a yearling—double the record
By Clive Gammon
George Rogers
ANOTHER CAMPBELL MAY BE COMING
If Heisman winner George Rogers turns out anything like Earl, he'll be sainted in New Orleans
By John Papanek
Tracy Caulkins
SEARCH FOR STILL WATER
Finding water that's not moving, holding on to it, using it—no one does this better than Tracy Caulkins, the finest woman swimmer
By Kenny Moore
Boxing
Precisely the right touch
Joltin' Jeff Chandler had that—plus a powerful follow-up right cross—in knocking out challenger Julian Solis and retaining the WBA bantamweight championship
By E.M. Swift
Golf
A champion and a winner
As Pat Bradley took the Women's Open, Kathy Whitworth went over $1 million
By Barry McDermott
John Hannah
John Hannah Doesn't Fiddle Around
At least not on the football field, where, says the author, his brains, brawn and speed have made him the top offensive lineman in NFL history
By Paul Zimmerman
A WHO'S WHO OF THE FRONT WALL
By Paul Zimmerman
On The Scene
THE BLACKFLY FESTIVAL COMPETITORS REALLY HAD TO STICK THEIR NECKS OUT
By Franz Lidz
For The Record
A roundup of the week July 20-26
Compiled by Alexander Wolff
19th Hole: The Readers Take Over
19TH HOLE: THE READERS TAKE OVER
Edited by Gay Flood
Departments
LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER
By Philip G. Howlett
SCORECARD
Edited by Jerry Kirshenbaum
CREDITS
FACES IN THE CROWD
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