Around City Hall Ringing the Changes by Andy Logan. There has been a strong sense of movement and change in City Hall and Albany in recent weeks. Discusses personnel changes made by Mayor Koch, the number of which has been striking considering his relatively short time. Discusses criticism of Koch for not complying with the provisions of the federal...

Fiction Wingless by Jamaica Kincaid. A collection of images from childhood, beginning with a description of small children in school. They are reading from Charles Kingsley's "Water Babies." The writer, in a childlike state, imagines herself a "water baby": in a state of supreme innocence. She recalls a woman she loved and an incident - real...

The Talk of the Town Stationery by Susan Lardner. Talk story about our friend Janet who found personalized Lucite letter openers at the reduced stationery counter in Saks. They were marked Leslie R. Parker, Lawrence Markman, and Steven H. Glovstky. She wanted to give the Steven H. Glovtsky to her friend Joe, but it cost $8.40, reduced from $14.00...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. With the departure of the Shah of Iran from his country on what promises to be a long, long "vacation," one of the strangest political confrontations of recent times approaches its close. On one side was a head of state who possessed all the formidible means of control with which...

Fiction The Cinderella Waltz by Ann Beattie. Story about a woman whose husband left her to live with his homosexual lover. Her nine year-old daughter visits them now on weekends. The woman is unsure if she knows her father is in a homosexual relationship. After the break-up, the woman behaved erratically. It was disconcerting, too...

A Reporter at Large II-Intrigue at the Summit by A. H. Raskin. A REPORTER AT LARGE about the New York newspaper strike written by a former labor commentator for the "Times." Tells about the on-again-off-again alliance of the publishers of New York's three major daily papers: the New York "Post," New York "Times," and the "Daily News." Rupert Murdoch...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Restrained Joy by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the New York Public Library. Tells about people who use the Research Librairies collection of 22 million items. Thanks to two $375,000 gifts from the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and Time, Inc., the Main Reading Room of the library's central building, at Fifth Ave. and 42nd St...

Profiles SUPER CHOPS Jazz Pianist by Whitney Balliett.

The Talk of the Town A Theatre Life by Natacha Stewart. Talk story about theatre actress, Marian Seldes who has just published her autobiography. Seldes, daughter of playwright and critic Gilbert Seldes, has worked in the theatre for thirty-seven years and studied acting with Sanford Meisner at the Neighborhood Playhouse School...

Poetry Surfaces by Jane Mayhall. At four o'clock in the afternoon...

Poetry The Sleeper by Howard Moss. Did you mark me, or I mark you...