Fiction Sy Pringle's Summer Menu by Mark Singer. Writer parodies press releases for films. In a memo, Sy Pringle, of Out-To-Lunch Films, Inc., lists the company's new summer releases, all of them about food "Savage Diet," USA, tells the tale of Hank Trueheart, a paunchy, calorie-conscious country-and-Western singer...a cinematic probe of breakfast...

The Current Cinema WILD JUSTICE by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Talk of the Town Author by John Bainbridge. Talk story about the prolific English writer of romances, Barbara Cartland, at her home, Camfield Place near Hatfield, Hertfordshire, England. The 75 year-old author has published 170 novels and many non-fiction works. Her novels have been translated into many languages and she is a best-seller in Turkey...

The Sporting Scene INCALCULABLE VARIABLES by E. J. Kahn. THE SPORTING SCENE about the 21st Olympics in Montreal, Canada. Wherever one looked or listened there was trouble. Too much attention is on the national origins of the individuals whose exploits here are theoretically supposed to be paramount. Something has got to be done in the next four years to...

Annals of Business FUNDS GRAY AND BLACK by John Brooks. ANNALS OF BUSINESS aboug Gulf Oil Corporation's payments to foreign and domestic political candidates and governments. Writer tells of other American corporations which have made similar payments but focusses on Gulf...

Fiction The Tenant by Arturo Vivante. A man and wife rent their cottage in New England for the year they will be away in Italy with their 3 children. Because so much damage has been done to their house by tenants in the past, they decide to ask a security deposit of $200. Their new tenant...

Fiction Rights Of Way by W. S. Merwin. Writer evokes moments of private reflection by describing: Wagon-Midsummer. Long evening... Well before the early sunrise there is a sound of distant thunder It is a cart, a wagon... Beating down every other sound...and fading away until at last the heart is louder and the day begins. Watching...

Comment by Richard Harris. No one knows how many lawyers there are in New York City, but the best estimates put the figure at somewhere between forty and fifty thousand... There are fewer than 200 full-time local lawyers to represent the 3 million people in the city who are reported to be below...

Letter from Rome by William Murray. In Rome itself, 800,000 people- about 1/4 of the population-live in squalor in outlying slum districts and shantytowns where public services hardly exist. In 1974, more than 300,000 crimes of all kinds were reported. Writer analyzes this society's "breakdown" in which an act of violence can be taken as...

Saratoga Again by G. F. T. Ryall. The Saratoga Springs meeting will close with the Hopeful. Stakes on Aug. 28, the Alabama Stakes on Aug. 14, and the Travers on the Aug. 21...

Books Eva and Eleanor and Everywoman by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town Theme by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about Prive, a new, posh cabaret in the East Fifties. A young man wearing a winged collar steps to the middle of the floor and announces, "Radiogram for Miss Dawson," whereupon Miss Dawson, in a white satin dress, steps up, reads the radiogram and exclaims, "Oh, no! He...

Poetry The Shade by C. K. Williams. A summer cold. No fever. Nothing. But a dozen times...

Poetry August by Debora Greger. Heat lightning. No rain...