The Talk of the Town Bird Walk by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about a bird-watching visit to the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. John Bull and his wife who are connected with the American Museum of Natural History were among the guests on the trip...

Fiction Discobolus by Ted Walker. In England in the early fifties Trav and the narrator were given draft deferments on the condition that they attend school full-time. Since both had already been admitted to Oxford and Cambridge, they were free to do as they pleased. As a consequence both decided to train for athletics...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about smiling. At Radio City Music Hall, this week, where thousands pack in nightly, the audience joins in singing "Smile" as the lyrics are projected on a scrim. The last lines are "You'll find that life is still worth while, / If you'll just smile...

The Current Cinema AMBUSHED HEROES by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Mentioned as the rider of Bee Bee Bee, winner of the Preakness Stakes...

The Talk of the Town Speaks with Sharp Tongue by William Whitworth. Talk story about Kahn-Tineta Horn, a young Mohawk Indian woman, prominent among North America's Indian activists. Student audiences often find her rhetoric unsettling and she ends up hurting the feelings of numerous other groups. She lives a few miles from Montreal on the Caughnawaga Reservation, the home of a...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

At the Theatre III-PEOPLE IN A DIARY by S. N. Behrman. In 1943 the writer learned that the Theatre Guild was going to put on his play "Jacobowsky and the Colonel". Elia Kazan was to direct it. In the cast: Louis Calhern for the Colonel; Annabella for Marianne; and for Jacobowsky, the Viennese comedian Oscar Karlweis. Tells about the run of...

A Reporter at Large THE PLACE ON THE HILL by E. J. Kahn. REPORTER AT LARGE about Franconia College, a lively, coeducational, experimental, not yet fully accredited New Hampshire institution that began operation in 1963. Under 25-year-old president Leon Botstein, Franconia is a determinedly unstructured college. Its curriculum is a blend of whatever the teachers who happen to be on hand...

Poetry Soren by John Peck. The lion was his father, ...? And Who can uproot her dream...

Poetry End of May by Mona Van Duyn. Atop each stem...