The Talk of the Town Champion by Lillian Ross. Talk story about Yannick Noah, 25 yrs. old, 6'4", and his life 8 days before the May 5th opening of the Shearson Lehman Brothers Tournament of Champions, at Forest Hills. Noah was the tournament's winner. On May 26 he beat Mats Wilander in the semifinals of the Volvo Monte...

The Current Cinema DRIFTERS, DOPES, AND DOPERS by Pauline Kael.

Reflections QUATTROCENTRO BASEBALL by Adam Gopnik. REFLECTIONS about the Montreal Expos, baseball, Italian art, and the relationship between art & baseball. Writer says it has occurred to others...that he is attracted to the Expos because participation in their cult provides a very close modern equivalent of the kind of communal involvement with spectacle which was...

Fiction Bank by Saul Steinberg. Four drawings of banks. They are: Cross Land Savings, First Federal Savings, Chemical Bank, and Citibank...

A Reporter at Large A MISSING PLANE II-IDENTIFICATION by Susan Sheehan. REPORTER AT LARGE about the history of a World War II missing plane. On Mar. 22, 1944 Lt. Robert Allred of the Army Air Forces piloted a B-24 on a flight from Port Moresby to Nadzab in New Guinea. It was later thought that due to poor visibility he...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Great Wits by Alice Mattison. Anne recollects the days when she was a student at Hunter College, and lived at home with her family in Brooklyn. Her father was a dentist. She remembered when she met her mother at the Frick Museum; she'd always wanted to show her the museum. Her mother had just come...

Books by Susan Lardner.

The Talk of the Town Nature by William McKibben. Talk story about Boy Scouts building a log cabin at Tavern on the Green in Central Park. The cabin was supplied by Wilderness Log Homes, a Wisconsin firm, which also supplied a good deal of lunch. Paul Maxon, the company president, told the reporter that he had learned to build...

Comment by Mark Singer. Tells about Texas's 150th birthday, and about an event called Texas in Transition: A Sesquicentennial Forum. This daylong discussion included words from Jim Hightower, the Texas Commissioner of Agriculture...

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Tells about African music in Paris & about Frankie Ntoh Song of Cameroon, 32, who lives in Paris & plays the keyboards in a group called Ghetto Blaster, which writer says is one of the best new African groups around. Frankie's first job playing was in a little night club...

Poetry The Garden by Harold Brodkey. A calendar picture...

Poetry The Black Riviera by Mark Jarman. There they are again. It's after dark. Another extends a sack of...