Obituary by Ved Mehta. Obituary of Julia Elizabeth Hayden, who wrote for "The New Yorker" as Julie Hayden. She died on Monday, Sept. 14, at the age of forty-two. She worked at "The New Yorker" for 16 years...

Books The Music of What Happens by Helen Vendler.

A Reporter at Large WELCOMING THE MUSES by Brendan Gill. REPORTER AT LARGE about the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts which opened in Washington, D.C. on Sep. 8, 1971. The opening was the culmination of 13 years of strenuous work, with many difficulties overcome. Before the Center was built Washington had few accomodations for the performing arts...

The Talk of the Town Big Exercise by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about the results of the recent census in India. Writer interviews P. Padmanabha, the Registrar General and Census Commissioner for India. Mr. Padmanabha tells how the census was taken, and talks about what an exciting time it was for him, and about the results of the census. Census...

Musical Events Hurrah! Hurrah! by Andrew Porter.

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL REMEDY by Andy Logan. New York's 1981 primary elections, originally scheduled for September 10, were cancelled by a federal court September 8, 1981. That decision was upheld the next day by Justice Marshall of the Supreme Court, the same day that an explosion and fire at a Con Ed station caused the loss of...

The Talk of the Town Millionaires by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about a meeting of the Millionaires Club, whose twenty-eight members are all winners of a million dollars or more in the New York State Lottery. The club is sponsored by the New York State Lottery, and once a year the millionaires are invited to a reception in...

Fiction The Mower by James Kaplan. The narrator has a job mowing the grass at a golf course. He likes it because he gets to see the sunrise every morning, and he enjoys the look of the course. He doesn't like golf, or golfers, or his boss. Every morning at 6:20 he notices a girl running...

Comment by David Roe. A friend who lives near San Francisco writes of his concern about the health hazards of toxic chemicals. The Mediterranean fruit fly causes helicopters to take to the air and spray a chemical called malathion on people's houses. It is also responsible for turning out the Calif. Highway Patrol to...

Fiction Labor Day Dinner by Alice Munro. Roberta is a middle-aged woman with two daughters from a previous marriage. She lives with a man named George on George's farm. George, a son of Hungarian immigrants, is tough and hard-working and can't under stand Roberta -- why she has become so moody and tearful, when she seemed...

The Talk of the Town Warning Do Not Enter by Wallace White. Talk story about a recent visit to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association/National Association Pet Industry Trade Show, for the trade only, in Albert Hall of the Sheraton Centre. Tells about some of the displays. Writer spoke with Edmund J. Mowka, Jr. who is with the research-and-development...

Reflections ELITISTS AND EGALITARIANS by William Pfaff. REFLECTIONS about the different attitudes toward equality held by Americans and Europeans. An anti-democratic intelligentsia, making a principled case for inequality and authoritarian rule, existed in Europe long before a democratic intelligentsia, and survives into our democratic age, whereas in the United States it has been virtually unknown since...

Poetry Land Army Photographs by Tony Curtis. How lumpy and warlike you all looked...

Poetry Store Bay by Derek Walcott. I still lug my house on my back...