Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

The Talk of the Town by L. J. Davis. Chalked graffito observed on a downtown Brooklyn office-building wall: Power To Jimmy And Steve...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

Profiles BROADWAY JOE by William Whitworth. PROFILE of Joe Franklin, host of a TV talk show & a collector of old movies & records. The center of his life is his unusual talk show, which appears twice every weekday on Channel 9, emphasizing show-business nostalgia-old film clips & interviews with old-time stars. Though...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. You might think it would be easy enough for a politician to say a few eloquent words about Mother's Day, but it seems that it isn't. On this past Mother's Day, Pres. Nixon came up, in part, with "Throughout this nation's history, American mothers have played a very special role...

Comment by John Brooks. Letter from a friend who keepstrack of the world of getting & spending. He compares a private experience with the current dollar crisis. 30 years ago he was summer editor of a small-town weekly newspaper, which he calls the Ong's Hat "Herald". One Friday he was given his check...

Fiction Ripped Off by Alice Adams. In San Francisco, Deborah & Philip share an expensive apartment in a building owned by Deborah's stepfather who charges a ritualistic fifty a month for it. She works mornings in a Kelly Girl job & Philip is an art student. When she comes home from work one day she sees...

The Theatre THE RULER AS LOSER by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Copology by Calvin Trillin. Talk story comparing the police in Sweden & in N.Y. Information came from Per Wahloo and Maj Sjowall, here from Sweden, partly, to accept an Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America for "The Laughing Policeman." They are husband & wife. Calling Swedish policemen "pigs" would be mild indeed, it's...

The Race Track Boom! Boom! by G. F. T. Ryall. Johnny Campo trains Jim French and also Sea Saga...

The Talk of the Town Organic by Lillian Ross. Talk. Visit to Mother Nature & Sons, Ltd. on Bleecker Street, between West Tenth and Charles, a health-food store, & interview with Abbe Borov, proprietor. He opened the store because he found it hard to get organically-grown vegetables in the neighborhood - he lives there. He want to open...

The Current Cinema WORLDS AWAY by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Current Cinema Worlds Away by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of this film, based on a book by Ludovic Kennedy, published in 1961. It is a plea to abolish capital punishment...

Onward and Upward with the Arts THE ASTONISHMENT OF WORDS by Victor Proetz. ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about German & French translations of English poetry & prose. Gives German, French & English versions of: "Rune of Hospitality", (from the Gaelic); "Yankee Doodle"; "Look, Stranger", by W.H. Auden; "The Tiger", by William Blake; "To a Mouse", by Robert Burns; a chapter from...

The Talk of the Town Choreographic Partners by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about watching a rehearsal of "Concerto for Jazz Band and Orchestra", a new work for the N.Y.C. Ballet's Annual Galla Benefit. The choreography is the joint work of George Balanchine, director of the N.Y.C. Ballet, & Arthur Mitchell, one of his leading soloists & founder of the Dance...

Fiction The Magazine by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Writer first met Zeinvel Gardiner in Warsaw in a soup kitchen for intellectuals. He was in his twenties & very eager to start a literary magazine in Yiddish. Writer attempted to help him, but finally withdrew because of complications. Twenty years passed; writer had gone to America & Hitler had...

The Talk of the Town Service by Charles Douglas. A friend who finds shopping in bookstores more and more discouraging (the clerks have no savvy, he says) walked into one the other day and asked for a Polish-English dictionary. "We don't have it," said the bright-eyed young female clerk, "but we do have the Portugese-English...

U. S. Journal WAR WITHOUT HAWKS by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: KANSAS about public opinion on the Vietnam war in the Midwest. The Kansas boys who are Mennonites have never gone when called into the armed forces. But in Newton & North Newton, north of Wichita, the Mennonites are not having as bad a war as they usually have...

Poetry Green: An Epistle by Anthony Hecht. I write at last of the one forbidden topic...

Poetry Silt Shallows by Richard Schramm. In whiteness, winter-haze, in light...