The Talk of the Town Horn Virtuoso by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Herrmann Baumann, a free-lance French horn, or more properly horn player. He performs only solo works - concertos, serenades & the like. (Most horn players are buried at the back of symphony orchestras, playing in virtual anonymity.) Mr. Baumann is a 39-year-old German concert &...

Around City Hall HORSEPOWER by Andy Logan. AROUND CITY HALL about the influence cabdrivers have in N.Y.C. Tells about their successful opposition to Mayor Lindsay's proposed Madison Ave. Mall. Tells how their political influence aided Abraham Beame in the Democratic mayoral primary & runoff, & Sanford Garelik in obtaining over 34,000 signatures in 5 days for his...

The Race Track Eggs on the Face by G. F. T. Ryall. Mrs. Samuel F. duPont owns Rose Argent. Gusty O'Shay who won the Hopeful Stakes at Saratoga Stakes is by Rose Argent out of Stormy O'Shay...

Books by W. H. Auden.

Fiction A Dream by Donald Barthelme. A man who recently had a picnic on the bank of the Delaware River relates a dream he had. Gen. Washington was told all was ready to cross the Delaware but he stopped to ask news of several of his houses. Maj. Kinsolving said the boats must be launched shortly...

Fiction The Letter by Arturo Vivante. Story about a married man who awaits a letter from the "other woman" when he takes a post at a Midwestern university, leaving his wife & children temporarily in New England. He hopes the woman will come & join him, but he fears it too, for it would be the...

Comment by Richard Harris. Vice-Pres. Agnew recently charged that the Dept. of Justice officials had leaked to the press materials from an investigation into possible violations by him of criminal statutes. He said the leaks were an effort to influence the outcome of possible grand jury deliberations. There is no evidence that this...

Profiles THE GROWER'S SHADOW by Berton Roueche. PROFILE of Canyon County, Idaho from the point of view of the work of the office of the county agent. The chief agent is Merle R. Samson. A county agent is the representative, at the barnyard level, of the Cooperative (state & federal) Agricultural Extension Service. It is he who...

The Talk of the Town Bee's Knees by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a trip to the first shopping mall on Staten Island, which the writer visited with Henry Korman, an architect. The S.I. Mall has a big store at either end & little stores in between, along an enclosed arcade. That is the classic mall pattern. The big stores...

The Talk of the Town Reply by Leonard Hall. A New York Telephone Company truck was spotted with a printed sign on its side that read: ASK ME ABOUT BETTER TELEPHONE SERVICE Just beneath the sign someone had written: I DON'T TALK TO NO TRUCK...

The Current Cinema Bagpipes and Nose Flutes by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "The Tall Blond Man With One Black Shoe", script by Yves Robert and Francis Veber, directed by M. Robert...

The Talk of the Town Breakfast Near Mark Spitz by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a breakfast held at the Regency Hotel ballroom by Regal Apparel Ltd., a men's clothing outfit, to present to the press some new sportswear called "Media," which will be made either here or in South Korea, Hong Kong, Taiwan, or Singapore. Mark Spitz, the Olympic swimmer, was...

Poetry An Event At Big Eddy by William Stafford. The whole weight of the river...