Annals of Business II-THE SWEATER TRADE by James Lardner. ANNALS OF BUSINESS about the global clothing industry and the competition between domestic & overseas factories. More & more clothing is being made overseas. In July, 1986 writer visited Ricke Knitting Mills in Queens & spoke with Richard Joseph & Bruce Goldman, who have been running the place since their...

The Talk of the Town Up by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about Susan Murphy, 40, trapeze artist & ElizabethGavin, 8. Murphy & Gavin live in adjoining lofts on the 6th floor of an old warehouse on W. 23rd St. Susan has short blond hair, a perfectly toned & slightly boyish body & a soft Southern accent. She comes from...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

The Talk of the Town Ball Drop by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the ball drop in Times Square on New Year's Eve...61 seconds before midnight on New Year's Eve, the calmest place in Times Square was the north roof of One Times Square--the old Times Tower--where a team of 7 people from the Artkraft Strauss Sign...

The Theatre EVERYTHING SHIPSHAPE by Mimi Kramer.

Fiction Slowly by Peter Cameron. If Tom, the narrator, wasn't gay, he would have married Jane, his friend from college. Instead, he introduced her to his brother Ethan, and Ethan married her. Tom was their best man and drove them to the airport for their honeymoon. On their 6th day in Ireland, Ethan drove into...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Comment by David Preston. The Stoneswere the only people the writer ever heard of who observed the arrival of the new year in total silence. Emma Bones Stone and Medad Elisha Stone were his father's maternal grandparents. They lived on Staten Island in a Victorian house... When his father was a boy, he used...

Onward and Upward with the Arts VALUE I-A FOOL'S QUESTIONS by Lawrence Weschler. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about J.S.G. Boggs, a young artist who draws pictures of currency which he then attempts to sell for the face value of currency which he then attempts to sell for the face value of the note depicted, usually in a retail transaction... The receipts...

Obituary by Calvin Trillin. Obituary of John Murphy who died on Thursday, Dec. 31, 1987, at 62. Except for the two years he spent in the Marines, he worked at this magazine, without interruption for forty-five years. Most of that time he worked in the makeup department. Eventually he became head of the...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Poetry The Mad Potter by John Hollander. Now, at the turn of the year, this coil of clay...

Poetry In Warm Rooms, Before a Blue Light by Maxine Kumin. All over America tonight...