Fiction The Wind-Child Factor by Penelope Gilliatt. 6 men were waiting for Bertram Wood in a Chinese restaurant in London. They spoke about him being a classicist, lawyers&translator. One pointed out that he played the harpsicord, clavichord, piano&Hammond organ&had been in W.W.II. Another said that he was like his father&...

The Talk of the Town The Largest Cockatoo by Emily Hahn. Talk story about the rare black palm cockatoo bird called Probosciger aterrimus, which translates as"very black snout-bearing," in the Rain Forest habitat of the World of Birds at the Bronx Zoo. One of the speakers was Sambas Wirakusumah, the outgoing educational&cultural attache of the Indonesian Embassy...

The Current Cinema PASSION by Pauline Kael.

A Reporter at Large I-RETURN TO VIETNAM by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about Vietnam. Writer spoke to Professor Tran Phuong, the Deputy Prime Minister for Planning and one of the few middle-generation trained economists in the Party hierarchy. Talked about Vietnam's problems with hunger and food production. He is one of the leading voices for economic reform, and...

Comment by William Shawn.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction The Salieri Variations by Polly Frost. Parody in the form of a letter to Milos Forman, the director of the Oscar-winning movie "Amadeus," about the making of a sequel. In the original, Antonio Salieri resents Mozart's genius and perhaps murders him. Writer suggests that "Amadeus, Opus 2: THE SEQUEL" finds Salieri terrorizing Smost of the...

The Talk of the Town Perking and Assessing by Mark Singer. Talk story about a meeting of the Sales Executive Club of New York, held in the Louis XVI Suite of the Waldorf. Writer attended the meeting, bringing along a copy of the Sales Executive, the club's official publication. He talked to Ed Flanagan, president of the club&watched a...

Holidays Terms by Anthony Hecht. Holidays, books, and lives draw to their close...

Annals of Finance I-FUNNY MONEY by Mark Singer. ANNALS OF FINANCE about the rise & fall of the Penn Square Bank in Oklahoma City of which Bill P. Jennings was the chairman & chief executive officer & William G. Patterson, his protege, the head of the oil-and-gas lending department. The Office of the Comptroller of the...

The Theatre A la Recherche Do Wah Diddy by Brendan Gill.