Our Local Correspondents I LIKE YOU, KID by Whitney Balliett. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about Chicago cornettist Jimmy McPartland's 70th birthday party, given by his former wife, Marian, the English pianist, at the Cafe Carlyle. McPartland and his wife were divorced 7 yea ago but live a few miles apart on the south shore of Long Island and see each other...

Comment by Richard Harris. Continued criticism of the local press for its sensational coverage of the arrest of David Berkowitz in connection with the Son of Sam murder case. 3 newspaper photographers and a reporter were arrested by Yonkers police for breaking into David Berkowitz's apartment. The 3 photographers were Robert Ralfus, of the...

A Reporter at Large SURVIVORS by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about refugees from the Indo-Chinese nations who are leaving at a rate of a thousand or more a month. Thailand has had to bear the brunt of the problem, and has come to accept the fact that it will ultimately be left with at least sixty...

The Talk of the Town The Pond by Victor Chen. Talk story about The Pond, in Central Park. Subway construction has pumped mud, water, and silt into The Pond's drainage system, causing The Pond to fill up with vegetation. Roger Pasquier, of the Linnaean Society, says that the vegetation has attracted new birds...

The Talk of the Town Touch by Ved Mehta. Talk story about the author's (he is blind) visit to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Lucy Bowditch and Judi Freeman, summer internes at the museum, set up an exhibition for the blind, by appointment. The author was given a catalogue in Braille and touched the artifacts in the exhibition. Among...

The Race Track So Long, Saratoga by G. F. T. Ryall. Dr. James Hill, who picked Seattle Slew for Micky Taylor to buy at one of the yearling sales 2 years ago, was suspended for 30 days by the New York State Racing and Wagering Board for failure to disclose his financial investment in Wooden Horse Investments, Inc. a corporation that...

Fiction Real Estate by Laura Furman. The narrator gets a phone call from Beau, who was her friend and neighbor when she lived in the city. She moved to the country 3 years ago and hadn't heard from him since then. He asks her to look at some land he was thinking of buying near her...

The Current Cinema BUFF by Penelope Gilliatt.

Fiction Autobiographer Manque by H. F. Ellis. Narrator tells psychiatrist how he always wanted to write his memoirs but his life had always been too free of trouble. He hoped that things would get miserable when he went to boarding school-he even brought a stuffed bear to encourage derision. But he was popular there and good...

Around City Hall Many Are Called by Andy Logan. During the local mayoral primary campaign, law-and- order was the major concern until Aug. 26th when the Securities and Exchange Commission released its report of its investigation of the events during 1974 and 1975 that led to the city's being shut out of the credit markets in March, 1975...

Poetry September by Andrew Glaze. Someone has left...

Poetry The Keeper by Jorge Luis Borges. The light enters and I come to myself; he is there...