The Talk of the Town Memorabilia by Jervis Anderson. Long mention in talk story about the U. of Mass./Amherst acquiring the papers of the late Dr. W.E.B. Du Bois, the eminent black American scholar & intellectual leader (1868-1963). Dr. Aptheker is a tall, white-haired man of 58, a Marxist historian & scholar, an old friend of Dr...

The Talk of the Town Eggs on Thursday by Gerald Jonas. Talk story about a store on the lower East Side that is open only on Thursdays & sells only eggs. The store is at 72 E. 7th St., in an old tenement building. The store is one of the finds of Sally Dorst, who has spent nearly a year gathering...

Fiction A Bad Baby by Roberta Silman. Story about the suffering of a young couple who await the death of their infant (as told by the husband). The arteries & veins of her heart are hopelessly twisted, & nothing can be done to help her. The wait is intolerable for the wife, who does not want to...

Fiction That Cosmopolitan Girl (Illus.) by Donald Barthelme. Parody on a Cosmopolitan advertisement in the Times, reprinted here, which tells of a girl's willingness to help carry a male friend's (Stephen's) luggage at the airport. The writer picks up where the ad leaves off. Stephen now asks the girl to carry a Vuitton steamer trunk into Vuitton. She...

Dancing Prizewinners by Arlene Croce.

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. Discusses Nixon's position in regard to the Watergate case, & to John Dean's testimony specifically. Tells about the economic & diplomatic effects of Watergate, & that the President has pledged to stop the bombing of Cambodia by Aug. 15, in response to Congressional pressure. The decline of Presidential authority is...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Some observers have taken comfort in the sloppiness of the White House's "enemies list". A number of political friends of the Pres. were on it, & the name of former Sec. of Defense Clark Clifford was misspelled. We may have been heading in the direction of a police state, these...

The Talk of the Town Spreading the Word by Philip Hamburger. Talk story about Mari Gorman, who has been winning considerable acclaim, in addition to an Obie and a Clarence Derwent Award, for her intriguing perfomance in the Off Broadway play "The Hot L Baltimore." At 28, she believes in chanting the Buddhist chant "Nam Myoho Renge Kyo," to attain inner...

The Race Track Lush Meadow by G. F. T. Ryall. His La Prevoyante lost the Queen's Plate. He was favored to win 7-5...

Books by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Sporting Scene SEASON LIGHTLY by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about the 1973 baseball season thus far. Writer discusses the pennant races, the controversy over pitcher Gaylord Perry's alleged spitball throwing, the decision to move the San Diego Padres to Washington next year, and Hank Aaron's quest to break Babe Ruth's career home run record. Writer thinks...

Profiles FORTY FLIGHTS OF STEPS by Berton Roueche. PROFILE of the Appalachian town of Welch, West Virginia county seat of McDowell County, rich in coal & poor in people. McDowell is known in the industrial world for the metallurgical coal, Pocahontas No. 3 (the Pocahontas Land Corp. holding most of the county's land & leasing it to coal...

Poetry The Two by J. F. Hendry. Two I watched go differing ways to strife...