Annals of Medicine CINNABAR by Berton Roueche. ANNALS OF MEDICINE about a case of lead poisoning suffered by Laura McBride (pseud.). In. Mar., 1979, she consulted Dr. Joyce Wallace, an internist on W. 12 St. The patient was an art conservator & worked at home on W. 13 St. Her gynecologist had found her hemoglobin level low...

The Sporting Scene NOT SO, BOSTON by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about the league championship games & the World Series, covering the baseball events of this October--the Mets'vivid comeback victory over the Boston Red Sox in 7 games & the previous elimination of the Houston Astros & the California Angels in the hazardous 6 & 7-game...

Comment by Lawrence Weschler. The other night on "60 Minutes" Elliott Abrams, Asst. Sec. of State for Inter-American Affairs, was telling why the govt. doesn't want Patricia Lara in this country. He said she was a member of the M-19 terrorist organization in Colombia & a liaison between that organization & the...

Fiction The First Weekend by Sara E. Lewis. Andrea, the 34-year-old narrator, worked for 12 years as an editor of college textbooks. One day she was told to "sex up" a geology book, and that made her wonder what she was doing. She lived alone, and didn't even own a couch. The next day, she saw...

The Talk of the Town Rowing by William McKibben. Talk story about Ned Gillette, 41, who leaves from Cape Horn shortly before Christmas in an attempt to row, with three other men, to Antartica - something that has never been done. If all goes according to plan the four explorers will wash up at one of the 16 scientific research...

The Talk of the Town Energy by William McKibben. Talk story about Andrew Loog Oldham, the original manager of the Rolling Stones & about Jolt Cola, a cola product with nearly twice the caffeine of regular old Coca-Cola... After hearing Oldham speak, writer suggested that some of the energy from the 1960s may be fading. What could be...

The Talk of the Town Art Life by George W. S. Trow. Third part of a 3-part talk story about art. The Art Cars are BMW's with which certain artists have been allowed to interact. They can be seen at the BMW Gallery on Park Ave. You cannot buy a BMW at the BMW Gallery; it is not a showroom. You...

The Theatre LOW LIFE IN CHICAGO by Brendan Gill.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Reading by Nardi Reeder Campion. Talk story about poet David McCord, who at 89, still visits as many as 25 schools a year to read poetry. Writer attended a reading at the Ray School in Hanover, New Hampshire, which was sponsored by the town's Howe Library. The children's librarian introduced McCord as "the author of...

Books by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction Kim, We Hardly Know Ye by Bruce McCall. Parody about Kim II Sung, who is the president of North Korea. Very little is known about him. (Although writer does not say so Kim II Sung has been in the news recently. It was thought he had been assassinated but later this proved to be a false rumor.) Writer...

Poetry Fire by Michael Ryan. I think of myself as dust of bones...

Poetry The Old Hand by John N. Morris. When at last you win to the rich coast...

Poetry At the Grave of George Eliot by Amy Clampitt. Laid in unconsecrated ground, a scandal...