Annals of War FRIENDLY FIRE-I by C. D. B. Bryan. ANNALS OF WAR about the efforts of Peg and Oscar Eugene Mullen, parents of Michael Eugene Mullen, 25, who was killed in Vietnam in 1970, to have their son's body escorted from Vietnam to Black Hawk County, Iowa by a friend and to determine the circumstances of his death. Reports...

The Race Track Scratch, Stumble, Bump by G. F. T. Ryall. Word comes from Florida that Hialeah Park, for years the showplace of racing on the Eastern seaboard, was sold last week to John J. Brunetti, a successful real-estate developer, for fifteen million dollars. At a meeting with Hialeah's board of directors, Brunetti pledged that he would continue the operation...

The Current Cinema Lion-Hearted Woman by Pauline Kael. Review of "French Provincial", directed by Andre Techine. His co-writer, Marilyn Goldin, is an American. Both are in their early thirties...

The Talk of the Town A Guide To Berlin(1925) by Vladimir Nabokov. The writer, who is disfigured, sits in a pub in Berlin and talks to a friend about utility pipes, street cars, and work. He describes the look of exposed utility pipes in the early morning snow, and the thickened, hardened hands of the streetcar conductor. He imagines how a writer...

The Theatre TRASHING THE BARD by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Three Degrees by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about the Three Degrees, three black girl singers from Philadelphia who are very big in Japan. Their song "When Will I See You Again" was big here, too, but only after it became a giant hit in Japan. Their manager says that 50% of all foreign records sold...

Books Simple-Minded Jim by John Updike.

Profiles SINGING WITH THE BIG DADS by Winthrop Sargeant. PROFILE of Sherrill Milnes, baritone with the Met. Opera, who has, at the age of 40, taken his place amoung the great Verdi baritones. Tells about his early life on the family farm in Hinsdale, a suburb of Chicago , where he received his first music training from his mother. Throughout...

Fiction Last Winter by Laura Furman. Ellen, the narrator, is a free lance editor who moved from New York City to a farm up north two years ago, after her divorce. Last January, she visited New York to pick up a new assignment. She stays in the Village with a friend from college, Annie, also recently...

The Talk of the Town Three Degrees by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the Three Degrees, three black girl singers from Philadelphia who are very big in Japan. Their song "When Will I See You Again" was big here, too, but only after it became a giant hit in Japan. Their manager says that 50% of all foreign records sold...

The Talk of the Town Items by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about the United Press International's Daybook. The Daybook, compiled mainly from press releases, is a list of events scheduled for the next day and sent out each evening to sixty-odd subscribers in the news media. The writer visited the UPI newsroom and watched city editor Allan Bruce...

Jazz Bird by Whitney Balliett. Account of the life of Charlie Parker from his beginnings to his death in 1955, occasioned by the release of a record album...

Comment by Richard Harris. A little over a year ago the Senate & House of Rep. each set up aSelect Comm. on Intelligence to report on secret operations by the executive branch against America's enemies at home & abroad. The basic issue involved has been the same as Watergate-whether the govt. has placed...

Musical Events Music in Space by Andrew Porter.

Poetry Shack Song by Dave Smith. Bounding a slip of the marsh, the boat skids...

Poetry Late by Mark Strand. We are not ever lost...

Poetry Being A Giant by Robert Mezey. It is hard...