The Talk of the Town Minnesota Fats by Ian Frazier. Talk story about Minnesota Fats, one of the most skillful and financially successful of pool players. He really likes to play pool and talks all the time with great self-assurance. Writer tells about watching him at a benefit performance for the Palisades General Hospital at the Palisadium, an entertainment...

The Race Track Cauthen is Back by G. F. T. Ryall. Elliott Burch, who gave up training Paul Mellon's Rokeby Stable last December because of ill health, will take over the horses of C.V. Whitney early in July...

Dancing Beyond Ballet Theatre by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Three in One by E. J. Kahn. In the old Andrew Carnegie Mansion at Ninety-first and Fifth, the Cooper-Hewitt Museum has on the ground floor display celebrating the seventy-fifth birthday of the building itself; on the first floor, the Andrea Palladio Exhibition, which consists of models, drawings, and photographs of the work of and...

Fiction Mrs. Armand Beef Likes To Entertain by George W. S. Trow. Joanne Reef, just 30, just divorced from socialite-sportsman Armand Reef, curls up in a tiny chintz chair in her East Side flat and talks about her life as a hostess. Mrs. Reef has developed formulas for several beauty products, such as the "Over-All Body Dew," which she will...

Comment by Roger Angell. Comment about the trade of pitcher Tom Seaver from the Mets to the Cincinnati Reds. M. Donald Grant is the Mets board chairman with whom Seaver had many disagreements. Publicly, Mr. Grant said his actions in the Seaver case were impelled by his wish to maintain ticket prices at a...

Books Vanguard Dealer by Harold Rosenberg.

The Current Cinema HO HUM, HO HUM by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Talk of the Town Usage by Mark Singer. Talk story about cocktail party at the St. Regis for the 132 members of the American Dictionary of the English Language's usage panel. Houghton Mifflin, publishers of the dictionary, gave the party. Edwin Newman is the chairman of the panel, Fernando de Mell-Vianna is the editorial director of Houghton...

A Reporter in Europe Paris by Jane Kramer. The Socialists and Communists have made an electoral arrangement that put Mitterand, the Socialist Party Secretary, within a percentage point of the Presidency in 1974, and that in the next 12 months will probably give them control of the National Assembly-and give France its first full govt. of the...

Fiction Distant Music by Ann Beattie. On Friday they would meet on a park bench in Washington Square Park. She was twenty, and she worked in an office. He was twenty-four, and he collaborated on songs with his friend Gus Greeley, and he wanted to make it big as a songwriter. On weekends, they spent...

A Reporter at Large Coming into the Country~III by John McPhee. REPORTER AT LARGE about the upper Yukon region of Alaska. Writer tells of visiting with a number of people living in the area, some of them in or near the bush community of Eagle. Everything has changed in recent times, especially since the 1968 discovery of oil which resulted in...

The Talk of the Town New Greengrocers by Elizabeth Hawes. Talk story about the flowering of Korean greengrocers in Manhattan. Their numbers have grown from about a dozen a few years ago to 300. The Koreans brought the fruit business to New York after trying it out in Argentian. Writer visits a few stands run by Koreans: the Farmers Corner...

Musical Events Music at High Mall by Andrew Porter.

Poetry 96 Vandam by Gerald Stern. I am going to carry my bed into New York City tonight...

Poetry Two Poems by Donald Justice. Tremayne stands in the sunlight...

Poetry The Cardinal by Henry Carlile. Not to conform to any other color...