U. S. Journal UNDER THE FRUITLESS MULBERRY by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: TUCSON, ARIZ. about efforts to ban further planting of the fruitless mulberry tree in Tucson. The problem is that the tree gives off pollen, which is what a lot of people move to Arizona to avoid. People with allergies make up a sizable minority in Tucson, but people...

Musical Events Heart of Grace by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Campaign by Mark Singer. Talk story about the New York City Clean Air Campaign and its sole staff member, Marcy Benstock. For the past eight years, she has devoted practically all her working hours to fighting Westway, the superhighway that has been proposed for the West Side of Manhattan from the Battery to 42nd...

Books Rebecca West by V. S. Pritchett.

The Talk of the Town Fancy by Lillian Ross. Talk story about a visit to the 28th Annual National Fancy Food and Confection Show at the Coliseum, where there were 450 exhibitors. Among the products were those of Cruscana seafood butters from France; Les Baguettines de Paris bread; Redlefesen's salami from West Germany; smoked salmon from Farne Salmon &...

Fiction Fairy Tales by William Steig. Four drawings illustrating well-known fairy tales. They are captioned as follows: "The Frog Prince calls on the Princess"; "The Beast proposes to Beauty"; "The Witch greets Hansel and Gretel"; "The Queen "guesses" Rumpelstiltskin's name...

Fiction The Bridle by Raymond Carver. A couple who manage an Arizona apartment complex watch as the Holits family from Minnesota whose farm was foreclosed, moves into one of the apartments, rents for several months, and then moves on after the father suffers brain damage following a fall. The narrator is Marge (the manager). Her husband...

Jazz Teddy Wilson by Whitney Balliett. JAZZ column about jazz pianist Teddy Wilson. Gives history of his career, tells about people he played with, describes his playing style. Time-Life Records has given over its twentieth "Giants of Jazz" album to Wilson, and writer says it is a creditable celebration...

Television I-THE CANDY FACTORY by E. J. Kahn. PROFILE of the CBS television show "60 Minutes." It is an hour-long melange of short documentaries, features, commentary, and sometimes even news. Its episodes feature reporters Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, and Ed Bradley, who this past season took the place of Dan Rather. It is broadcast Sunday...

A Reporter at Large THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY by Elizabeth Drew. REPORTER AT LARGE about the recent Democratic National Party Conference in Philadelphia. This year the Party leadership went to great lengths to avoid trouble. The timing was advanced from December, when the previous conferences were held, in order to give the Party a chance to develop its issues for the...

Dancing An Underground Classic by Arlene Croce.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In a recent speech to the Israeli Parliament, Shimon Peres, the leader of the opposition Labor Alignment, remarked, "War in our day is war that is photographed. In the battlefield are not only tanks but television cameras, the eyes of the entire world, and pictures are stronger than words." The...

The Theatre COUNTRY PLEASURES by Brendan Gill.

Poetry An Old Woman's Vision by Norman Dubie. No better day to come...

Poetry Rumor at Twilight by Robert Penn Warren. Rumor at twilight of whisper, crepuscular...