Fiction Moment of Wisdom by M. F. K. Fisher. Writer has had few experiences with the brimming kind of tears which result in pure moments. When she was a child in Whittier, Calif. her grandmother lived with them. Wandering missionaries & other men of her own cut of cloth often came to see her. One day, shortly after the...

Our Footloose Correspondents Comment by Berton Roueche. An occasional correspondent of ours, an investment banker who spends much of his time in the country, has sent us a winter report. Tells about his watching a house finch feed from his bird feeder, & the fear & caution & hunger with which the bird went about it. "I...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "The Godfather", taken from the book by Mario Puzo. Francis Ford Coppola directed it and wrote the script with Puzo...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. There's no indication of when the strike of pari-mutuel clerks at the Big A will end. Meanwhile everyone is losing money, except the Off-Track Betting Corporation, which has been taking in more than a million dollars a day and is now booking bets on horses running at Pimlico...

Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

A Reporter at Large MORKETIDEN by Joseph Wechsberg. REPORTER AT LARGE about Tromso, Norway, which with 36,000 residents is the world's northernmost city of any size. For 59 days between Nov. & Jan., the sun does not rise above the horizon. They call this period "morketiden"--murky times. Tells what life is like in Tromso, which is 215...

About the House by Janet Malcolm. Writer tells of a visit to the studio of artist Fumio Yoshimura, 307 Bowery, who is, as yet better known for his wife Kate Millett. Tells about his sculpture. One floor is given over to Kate Millett's studio; she is a sculptor as well as a writer. The conversation turned...

Fiction The Springs of Affection by Maeve Brennan. Six years after Delia Bagot died her husband Martin died, & his 87-year-old twin sister, Min, who stayed with him as long as he needed her, was free to return to her flat in Wexford, from Dublin. Min, a bitter old woman, remembers when her family was all...

The Talk of the Town Miss Peggy Lee by William Whitworth. Talk story about singer Peggy Lee's opening night & the rehearsal that preceded it that after noon. Both events took place in the Empire Room of the Waldorf. Hugo Granata, Miss Lee's lighting director, has worked with her for years. He stays with the show for a few days, until...

Fiction Ten Stories for Mr. Richard Brautigan and Other Stories by Garrison Keillor. This short piece is a series of ten vignettes in the style of the short story writer Richard Brautigan. These stories, like those of Brautigan, attempt to create a mood or depict a paragraph in just a few words. Like the stories of Brautigan, these stories are about the writer...

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: ALBANY, NEW YORK GIVE ME A YES ON THAT ONE by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about Ed Meyer, Rep. state assemblyman from Westchester County. Writer accompanied him to Albany while the Legislature was in session. A former US Attorney who now commutes to a law firm in Manhattan, Meyer, 36, is the 3rd youngest Rep. in the Assembly. He has been openly critical...

The Talk of the Town Bus Ride by Lillian Ross. Talk story about busing to achieve integration in a neighborhood just north of Miami, in Dade Co., Fla., a state where busing was the primary issue in the recent presidential primary. Dade Co. has 6th largest school system in U.S. w/ 10,000 teachers & 245,000 pupils. Here, Bunche Park Elem...

Poetry Death Of A Stallion by John Peck. Where the malady has winnowed him already...

Poetry A Shock by W. H. Auden. Housman was perfectly right...

Poetry War by Robley Wilson. Sometimes I have wanted to go to war...