Comment by Jonathan Schell. The issue of a reporter's right to protect confidential sources, has arrived before the public in a cocoon of misinformation. It is not true, as defenders of that right suggest, that the Supreme Court, in its decision last June against Earl Caldwell, of the "Times" & 2 other newsmen, stripped...

Letter from Berlin by Joseph Wechsberg. For the first time since the Berlin Wall went up, in the summer of 1961, W. Berliners may visit E. Berlin & E. Germany-for a maximum of 30 days in any one year. Tells about other concessions. These new rules, which went into effect last June, as a result...

Onward and Upward with the Arts THE SELECTION OF REALITY by Edward Jay Epstein. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the news broadcasts of the three major television networks--C.B.S. Evening News, the N.B.C. Nightly News, & the A.B.C. Evening News. C.B.S. broadcasts to 200 local stations to some 19 million viewers; N.B.C., to 209 stations to some 18 million viewers; &A.B.C...

The Talk of the Town Costumes by Philip Hamburger. Talk story about Greek-born Theoni V. Aldredge, chief costume designer for Joseph Papp's Public Theatre & N.Y. Shakespeare Festival. She has been in this post for 12 years. Tells about her recent work. She's in her early 40's, was born in Salonika, grew up in Athens. Her father...

The Talk of the Town Ethnic Ice-Skating by Victor Chen. Talk story about large number of Chinese kids ice-skating in Central Park. This off-the-cuff sociological research comes to us from the typewriter of Milton Liu. He notes a kind of voluntary de facto segregation at the Loula Lasker Rink at the north end of Central Park. The...

The Race Track That Old Calumet Magic by G. F. T. Ryall. Autobiography broke a leg running in the San Luis Obispo Handicap at Santa Anita, and had to be destroyed. To Pancho Martin, who trained him, his loss is a big one...

Musical Events So Much Virtue by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre TO THE WINDS by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Honeybees by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about Brazilian honey bees. Dr. Jerome G. Rozen, Jr., former entomology chairman & curator of Hymenoptera, & present deputy director for research for the American Museum of Natural History, told about the bees. Rozen has studied bees all over the world & written 45 scientific papers about them...

Fiction Early Sunday Morning by Henry Bromell. Susan Evans and Scobie, the boy with whom she has been living, were visiting her parents' home outside Boston. Mr. Evans, who plays a trumpet at a casino on weekends, first thought Scobie was a Svengali, then, upon learning that he was a writer, immediately leapt to the false conclusion...

The Current Cinema A Generation's Clown by Pauline Kael. A new film called "Ten from Your Show, of Shows" consists of Sid Caesar appearing in ten. sketches selected from the kinescopes of the live weekly television show he did in the fifties called "Your Show of Shows' in which his co-star was Imogene Coca. Writer gives a lengthy...

Fiction The Trip by Berry Morgan. After her mama died, the girl was left alone in their small house. She tried to keep busy with various little jobs during the daylight. She worked on the vegetables every day but without Mama she had a time with them. Finally she got to grieving for some talk &...

Poetry An Elegy Is Preparing Itself by Donald Justice. There are pines that are tall enough...

Poetry Breasts by Tess Gallagher. The day you came...

Poetry Xerox by Ben Belitt. The original man lies down to be copied...