The Talk of the Town by Edward Stevenson. Overheard in a Madison Avenue elevator, dispatch case to dispatch case: "I like the way George underplays his conceit...

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "The Trial of the Catonsville Nine". Rev. Daniel Berrigan, S.J. collaborated on the script with Saul Levitt; it was taken from the stage play...

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. The mechanized advances of the N. Vietnamese in the last month impelled the Pres. to take the risk of mining N. Vietnam's ports & threatening to cut off supplies being moved by air or rail. It is questionable that he was acting to improve his political status. He probably saw...

The Talk of the Town On the Set by Philip Hamburger. Talk story about Jason Miller, author of "That Championship Season" which recently opened at Joseph Papp's Public Theatre to wide critical and popular acclaim. The play is a study of a reunion in the home of the coach of a high school basketball team in a Lackawanna Valley town that...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. When Pres. Nixon threw down the gauntlet to the Russians & Chinese by ordering the mining of Haiphong & other N. Vietnamese harbors, he left the rest of us in an intolerable situation. We found ourselves facing total peril from a position approaching total ignorance & total helplessness. Total peril...

The Talk of the Town by M. Bessie. An ecologically reclaimed paper stock is being offered to book publishers by the Lindenmeyr Paper Corporation, of Long Island City, under the brand name Sludge Opaque...

The Talk of the Town The Belle by John Bainbridge. Talk story about the last public run from London to Brighton of the Brighton Belle, the all-Pullman train beloved by the British. Moira Lister, an actress and passenger on the final trip, commented about the train...

People in a Diary II-PEOPLE IN A DIARY by S. N. Behrman. Writer recalls his work in Hollywood. He arrived during the period when the "Industry" was chaging from silence to sound. Winfield Sheehan, the production head of the Fox Film Corp. enticed him to Calif. to transfer the play "Liliom", by Ferenc Molnar, to the screen. Tells about this project...

Fiction The Listening Woman by Sylvia Townsend Warner. In England, Mr. Edom, the owner of the Abbey Antique Galleries, has left Miss Mainwaring, an older lady and a periodic visitor, in the care of his assistant, Mr. Collins. While looking around, Miss Mainwaring's eye is caught by a painting that once belonged to her grandfather. She mentions this...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

The Talk of the Town Only Artist on the Moon by William Wertenbaker. Talk story about the only work of art on the moon. It is a work by the Belgian sculptor Paul Van Hoeydonck, and lies in a small crater near Hadley Rille, on the moon. Interview with the artist, here for a retrospective of his work at the Waddell Gallery. Outer...

U. S. Journal by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about the Breaux Bridge, La., Crawfish Festival. The French language is the basis of Cajun culture. Even with the new emphasis on teaching French in primary school and exhorting Cajuns to speak it to their children at home, the language is likely to disappear from Louisiana eventually through...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Poetry The Suicide by David Posner. I drink this whiskey from a window overlooking the sea...

Poetry The Ethnic Life by Daniel Halpern. I've been after the exotic...

Poetry Yucca Flowers by William Stafford. In the hills today, if you bow...

Poetry Going Home by Philip Levine. She brought oranges...