Cover artist: Charles Saxon Publication Date: June 9, 1973 Page Count: 116 pages In this issue:The Current Cinema OTHER PEOPLE'S US by Penelope Gilliatt. Comment by Jonathan Schell. In Comment on the Watergate hearings writer tells how the 1972 election was heavily sabotaged. Many events that appeared spontaneous were staged... The Talk of the Town Philadelphia Loan by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about the Grolier Club's recent loan exhibition of books, manuscripts, and drawings from the Philip H. & A.S.W. Rosenbach Foundation Museum of Philadelphia. The exhibition was suggested by Robert S. Pirie, a member of the Committee on Public Exhibitions. It was selected & installed by Clive E. Driver... U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: THE MIDWEST DO THE FOLKS OUT THERE REALLY CARE? by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about public opinion in the Midwest (Kansas & Missouri) about the Watergate scandal. Most of the talk in the Midwest about how the press was making unfair accusations against the Nixon Admin. began to fade when many of the accusations turned out to be true. But one widespread... The Talk of the Town Hurok by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Sol Hurok, the eighty-five year old impresario, supervising the rehearsal for a gala benefit in his honor at the Metropolitan Opera. Isaac Stern, Roberta Peters, Jerome Hines, Antonio Gades, and ballet dancers Margot Fonteyn, Desmond Kelly, Marcia Haydee, Richard Cragun, Lynn Seymour, Alexander Grant, Natalia Bessmertnova... The Talk of the Town Mays at St. Bernard's by Lillian Ross. Talk story about Willie Mays, the baseball player, visiting St. Bernard's School on East 98th St. A 5th grade student there sent in a report. Willie Mays spoke to about 125 boys in the gym. Excerpts given of the questions and answers. He is 42 years old, is the father... The Art World (The Art Galleries) Shockers and Fairytales by Robert M. Coates. The Talk of the Town Parade by Fred C. Shapiro. Talk story about the Brooklyn Bridge birthday, parade to celebrate its 90th birthday, on Sunday, May 20th Mayor Lindsay walked toward Bklyn. to shake hands with Bklyn. Borough. Pres. Sebastian Leone two-thirds of the way across the bridge. There was a camel in the parade, named Hannibal. He was... Fiction Troy Street by Robert Hemenway. Fifty-year old Laurence MacLean dreams that he is walking with a woman... Dept. of Amplification by Fred C. Shapiro. DEPT. OF AMPLFICATION of ANNALS OF JURISPRUDENCE Feb. 8, 15, 22, 1969 about George Whitmore, Jr. Tells facts about the case against him. He was arrested in Bklyn in 1964 & eventually charged with a number of crimes of which he was innocent. The one charge which stuck was the... The Race Track Triple Promise by G. F. T. Ryall. Arthur Appleton's My Gallant won the Blue Grass Stakes, & made a winning effort at Belmont last week... Musical Events Swan Upping by Andrew Porter. The Theatre Scenes from the Country Life by Edith Oliver. Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. The Watergate hearings are about to be resumed. There is pressure on the Select Committee chairman, Sen. Sam Ervin to reverse the pattern of the hearings, which has been to question the foot soldiers first and then move on to those in the high command. It's suggested that the schedule... Profiles HAPPY TIMES by Brendan Gill. PROFILE of Jerome Zerbe, society photographer. For 40 years (he is 68) he has taken pictures of attractive people on delightful occasions, & they number upward of fifty thousand photographs. This amounts to an astonishing average of three or four phtotgraphs a day every day of every year between 1933... The Talk of the Town Damp by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about a party to benefit the "Paris Review" which was held at the South Street Seaport on the steamship Alexander Hamilton. Writer met a numerologist. He was a silver appraiser named Edward Kyle, whose hobby is numerology. Tells what he told the writer for a fee of $3... Poetry June Bug by Anne Sexton. June bug came on the first of June... |