Fiction Trastevere by Mary Lavin. Back in NYC after a summer trip to Rome, Mrs. Traske, a poet, meets Paul Martin, a young poet she had met in Rome by chance on the street. He tells her that the wife of a friend, of his, with whom they had all dined in Rome, has just...

The Race Track Marathon by G. F. T. Ryall. Writer reminisces about Display, the Iron Horse, who started in 103 races during the six seasons (1925-30) he campaigned. Tom Healey trained him...

A Reporter at Large WASHOESE by Emily Hahn. REPORTER AT LARGE about teaching chimpanzees sign language. Writer visits Dr. Wm. Lemmon's chimp colony in Norman, Okla., where a number of chimps can use American Sign Language. This experiment was begun by Dr. R. Allen & Dr. Beatrice T. Gardner, psychologists at the U. of Nevada, at Reno, with...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Last week, when we learned that war had broken out in South Asia, our thoughts began to race over the entire globe. We found ourself trying to take an inventory of the enemities & alliances that are supposed to keep local wars from growing into general wars. It was clear...

Letter from Tokyo LETTER FROM TOKYO. by Joseph Kraft. In the past year, the Japanese economic growth rate fell from 12% to about 5 1/2% - from a fantastic rate to one that is merely quite good. On top of this have come the "Nixon shocks": the July 15 announcement of the President's coming trip to Peking; on Aug. 15...

The Talk of the Town On the Threshold by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about August Everding, German director of the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Tristan & Isolde" which opened last week. Writer interviewed Everding about his life and about the new production during a rehearsal break for "Tristan." Everding explained his concept of the production. He said he starts every...

The Talk of the Town Armadillo Man by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about Jim Franklin, an underground cartoonist from Austin, Texas, who has been drawing armadillos for the last 3 years. The result has been a steady growth of Armadillo Consciousness among the young people of Austin. He first began drawing them when he was asked to do a handbill...

The Current Cinema Peter Brook's "Night of the Living Dead" by Pauline Kael. Review of Peter Brook's production of "King Lear", which writer hated - a cold, gray film...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Vera by Fred C. Shapiro. Talk story about a cleaning project at the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park, which is a demonstration experiment sponsored by the Fund for the City of N.Y. to prove the feasibility of employing former convicts & rehabilitated addicts on public & private projects. The men were from one of the...

Fiction Plowshares, Anyone? by Ralph Schoenstein. Satirical piece about the UN, inspired by the recent admission of Red China & expulsion of Taiwan, which caused much celebration by some of the delegates, to the embarrassment of the US. As the story opens, the UN has given way to 2 new leagues, the Triple A (Afro-Asian...

Letter from West Bengal by Ved Mehta. On Dec. 3, India and Pakistan began a full-scale war Whatever the immediate provocations, it is generally agreed that the cause of the war is rooted in the fact that since March of this year-in the biggest single forced migration in the world's history-nine million persons have...

Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

Poetry Consequences of A Dime by Jonathan Aaron. I deposit a dime...

Poetry The Fish by Greg Kuzma. Beautiful...