The Talk of the Town Sans Doute by Susan Lardner. Talk story about Janet's recent European vacation. Tells how her office retired her while she was away but later rehired her. Janet tells about being weighed down by luggage, about meeting young men who helped her with her bags, and about meeting young women whom she advised to marry before...

The Theatre AN EVENING WITH THE WIDOW by Edith Oliver.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Anniversary Good to the Last Drop by Caroline Fraser. Talk story about the celebration of the 50th anniversary of Maxwell House Coffee. Writer visited the company's Hoboken, New Jersey factory which is the world's largest coffee factory. Writer describes the giant neon sign affixed to the roof of the plant. She describes the various stages of coffee bean processing...

A Critic at Large T.S. ELIOT AT 101 by Cynthia Ozick. A CRITIC AT LARGE about the poet T.S. Eliot, who once was a commanding literary figure whose formulations were revered. It's impossible nowadays to imagine such authority accruing to a poet. In his person, if not in his poetry, Eliot was false coinage. Born in St, Louis, he became indistinguishable...

Letter from Budapest by David K. Shipler. The office of Istvan Foldesi, who until recently was a special assistant to General Secretary Karoly Grosz, was modest and functional, with simple wooden furniture & cream-colored wallpaper. Foldesi, who had spent a total of 12 years as a Hungarian diplomat in South Vietnam, England, Spain, and the US...

The Talk of the Town Six Naps In One Day by Donald Hall. In the nap there are numerous doors, boudoirs, a talking...

The Talk of the Town Pilgrim by Amy Clyde. Talk story about Savath Bon, a Cambodian who works in the cranberry fields of Burlington County, New Jersey, the cranberry capital of the state. The writer visits the owner, Charles Thompson, in Pine Barrens where his cranberry bogs are located...

Comment by Naomi Bliven. Comment about the passage of a bill in the Senate last September that prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities. The writer adds some testimony in favor of th the bill. Twenty years ago this fall, she had a minor accident that put her on crutches for a couple of months...

In Fashion by Holly Brubach.

Fiction Rain by Robert Boswell. In Georgia, Karen Stupka & her friend Orla are part of a search party that's been organized to help find a missing boy from the neighborhood. It's a stormy night & they've been assigned to search the forest about a mile away from the boy's house. Karen, who is 34...

Profiles Film Resource by Douglas Watt. Profile of film collector Herb Graff...

Poetry Compass Reading by Eamon Grennan. The solid shapes and weights of anchors...

Poetry Fission by Jorie Graham. The real electric lights light upon the full-sized/screen...