On and Off the Avenue This & That by Kennedy Fraser.

Fiction The Discovery by Donald Barthelme. Humorous story about the discovery that Boots is dull. His girlfriend Katie, his father the Judge, and his friend Fog all share this opinion. Boots is hurt by their discovery and goes inside. After his departure, Katie, the Judge, and Fog have a boring conversation about dull Boots. Katie decides...

The Talk of the Town Aliens & Brew by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about comedians Proctor & Bergman (Philip Proctor and Peter Bergman). They hit L.A. in the mid-sixties, & teamed with Austin & Ossman & started appearing on a rdio show, now called Firesign Theatre. They made records, for Columbia Records. Mentions titles. Proctor & Bergman now have their...

Fiction The Night We Rode With Sarsfield by Benedict Kiely. Story about narrator's boyhood in the northeast corner of Ulster, in Ireland. His Roman Catholic family shared a house with Willy & Jinny Norris, a Presbyterian farming couple who employed the boy's father. When the two died in an accidental fire, the father walked with the funeral & daringly even...

The Current Cinema An Attack on the Drabs by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Visions of Eight", an eight-fragment film about the 1972 Olympics in Munich as seen by: Milos, Forman, Kon Ichikawa, Claude Lelouch, Juri Ozerov, Arthur Penn, Michael Pfleghar, John Schlesinger, and Mai Zetterling...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) Adding Up by Harold Rosenberg.

Annals of Finance THE GO-GO YEARS by John Brooks. ANNALS OF FINANCE about the stock market in the late sixties and 1970, & draws some parallels with the 1929 market. First part tells about Henry Ross Perot's Electronic Data Systems & his sustained loss of over $400 million; about fraud by the Canadian firm Atlantic Acceptance Corp., Ltd.; &...

The Talk of the Town Summer Outing by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a U.N. boat outing. For five years now, the N.Y.C. Commission for the U.N. and for the Consular Corps has borrowed a Staten Island ferryboat once each summer and invited all the U.N. diplomats, Secretariat employees and consular officials in town to bring their families for an...

The Race Track Five Straight by G. F. T. Ryall. Desert Vixen won the Alabama Stakes at Saratoga Springs last Saturday. She was bred in Florida by the late Mrs. Muriel Vanderbilt Adams, and, at the disposal of the estate last year, was sold for $40,000 to Harry Mangurian, Jr., a Florida businessman...

Comment by Richard Harris. After nearly 3 months of the Watergate hearings, the appearance of 35 witnesses, and the accumulation of 7500 pages of testimony, a poll was conducted by the Louis Harris organization, & the findings were just announced. The results were enough to astonish & depress the most devout believer in democracy...

Books by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town ASCAP Party by Wallace White. Talk story about a press party given in honor of the publishing of a book called "100 Best Songs of the 20's and 30's." The party was held in the rotunda of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP). The rotunda featured a Steinway upright that...

Poetry A Change of Hats by Theodore Weiss. Cued by the season and my peers...