Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

The Air (On Television) by Michael J. Arlen.

The Talk of the Town Two Unveilings by Mark Singer. Talk story about dedication of a fountain in the southwest corner of City Hall Plaza, a gift to the city of George T. Delacorte, Jr., 85-year-old publisher whose donations to the city include 3 other fountains. Writer talks to Marco Martelli whose firm, Ormar Building Corp., constructed the...

The Sporting Scene AUGUSTA, AGAIN by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about the 1979 Masters golf tournament at the Augusta National Golf Club, won by Frank Urban (Fuzzy) Zoeller, Jr. It was the first Masters decided by a sudden-death playoff. Zoeller won it by defeating Tom Watson and Ed Sneed with a superb birdie on the second...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment that views nuclear energy from Pascal's point of view. The Nothing and the Infinite, the two abysses on either side of man, that Pascal found so impenetrable were broken down by modern physicists and understood. They have set a rough date for the beginning and end of the universe...

Annals of International Trade A VERY EMOTIVE SUBJECT by E. J. Kahn. ANNALS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE about the controversy over the investments of American business and banks in South Africa and how resolutions at stockholders' meetings and protests by students whose institutions have interests there, have made S. Africa a major issue. Critics of investment say it sustains apartheid. While the business...

The Theatre FAMILY TROUBLES by Brendan Gill.

Fiction The Old Forest by Peter Taylor. Writer remembers an incident that took place when he was a young man in Memphis, Tenn. during the thirties. The week before his wedding to a society girl, he had a car accident while Lee Ann Deehart, a working girl with no society connections, was out with him. She jumped...

The Talk of the Town Mass Meetings by Rogers E. M. Whitaker. Talk story about jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams. In 1969 the Church in Rome commissioned her to compose a Mass which she titled "Mary Lou's Mass." It was recently performed at St. Patrick's Cathedral as part of its centennial year celebrations. Tells about Mary Lou Williams' career and describes a...

Poetry H2ODE by Frank Zachary. Friends, we are deep in the Aquarian Age...

Poetry Shaving without a Mirror by W. S. Merwin. As though there could be more than one center...

Poetry Ladies Tresses by Amy Clampitt. Love is a climate...