The Race Track The West Has It Best by G. F. T. Ryall. Angle Light won a one-mile event on Wednesday at Aqueduct. His owner is Edwin Whittaker, a Toronto electronics executive...

The Talk of the Town Exit The Kretch by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about Jerome Kretchmer, who, for one month, was a candidate for mayor of New York. Jerome Kretchmer, now 38, entered politics as the founder of a reform club on the upper West Side. He was elected to the State Assembly at 28, and was re-elected 3 times...

Comment by Fred Powledge. In the course of trying to puzzle out some of the key features of the startling, abrupt, and sweeping transformation of the federal government...we found ourself scrutinizing with particular interest two comparatively slight examples of the federal approach to local affairs. Both local problems had to do with the...

Fiction On Bail by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. Rajee & his wife live in a small, run-down apartment. The girl works as a cashier in a shop all day while Rajee goes to coffeehouses to make deals. One night while she is waiting for him to come home, her father comes instead & tells her Rajee is...

Profiles II-TAKING LEAVE OF PREDECESSORS by Peter Heyworth. PROFILE of Pierre Boulez, conductor and composer. Tells about music in postwar Paris & Boulez's emergence as a major force, through the Domaine Musical, a series of concerts given at the Petit Marigny. Boulez acted as conductor for these concerts & through them met many patrons of the arts &...

The Current Cinema Truffau and Cagney by Penelope Gilliatt. A group of James Cagney films are showing at the New York Cultural Center from now until June 14th. There is a also a good, informative book by Homer Dickens called "The Films of James Cagney" just out...

A Reporter at Large II-SAILING FROM BYZANTIUM by Karl E. Meyer. REPORTER AT LARGE about museum-acquisition practices & archeological discoveries in Turkey, which have been plundered & illegally sold abroad...

The Talk of the Town Library's Library by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about the Heineman collection of books and manuscripts founded by Dannie N. Heineman. The Heineman collection of books and manuscripts is housed largely in 3 18th century bookcases and two filing cabinets in the Heineman Room on the second floor of the Morgan Library. It has been on...

Musical Events Wagnerismo by Andrew Porter.

Profiles II-TAKING LEAVE OF PREDECESSORS by Peter Heyworth. Tells about Pierre Boulez as a conductor...

Books by Anthony West.

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Tradition by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about a black vaudeville show held on the stage of Town Hall the other night. Among the entertainers were Pigmeat Markham, Baby Seals, and the team of Cook and Brown, all comedy men. Albert Gibson Buster Brown, and Ralph Brown, tap-dancers, also performed. Pigmeat Markham had top...

Poetry In The Village (Africa) by Andrew Oerke. In the village in the village in the village...

Poetry Life Without Mind by David Shapiro. The brain in Greece was once a fountain...