The Talk of the Town by Miriam Gabo. A transatlantic traveller tells us that on a T.W.A. flight he took last week the sheep were separated from the goats by means of a printed notice on his boarding pass: "If it's a movie flight, the film you choose at check-in time determines where you sit. The mature...

Books by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town Oath by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the swearing-in of Manhattan Councilman - at - Large Robert F. Wagner Jr., on Jan. 6, his 30th birthday. 15 of his friends each donated a penny to pay the fee public officials must pay when they assume public office. This 15 cent fee is paid to the...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Fiction Whenas In Gilt My Julio Goes by S. J. Perelman. This story is preceded by an excerpt from the London Times about a cloth that has been produced with gold thread. / Prince Florizel of Bohemia, and his escort who shall go under the calling of Hammersmith, disguise themselves for adventures in London. They meet an American at a public place...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Movies An American at the Movies by Harry L. Mountzoures. David Lambert is a 30-year-old electronics designer who has been married for 3 years to Elaine, a woman who does not easily show her emotions. While on an errand, he passes a large, old movie house, one he went to as a child. Although it now shows only...

The Talk of the Town Dud by Henry S. F. Cooper. Talk story about Gilbert T. Schmidling, the chairman Amateur Astronomers Association, and the comet Kohoutek. He is the chairman of the Optical Division of the Amateur Astronomers Association. He met with the writer on the observation deck of the Empire State building in order to locate the comet. Talks about...

The Talk of the Town by Robert MacMillan. Overheard at the Plaza's Oak Room bar, bartender to customer: "Within two hundred years, Australia will be as crowded as England. You watch...

The Current Cinema A NEW VOICE FOR HOFFMAN by Pauline Kael.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Over the last decade or so, two standard reactions to bad news seems to have developed in our country. One reaction is "It didn't happen", and the other is "They all do it". In the early Vietnam years, the tendency was to react in the first way... About five years...

The Talk of the Town Library's Bobst by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about Elmer H. Bobst, the major contributor to New York University's new Bobst Library, on Washington Square. He is, at 89, a former head of Hoffman-LaRoche, & former chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceitical Company. Bobst spoke to the writer about his homes, particularly about his Montclair, N.J...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

Reflections I-THE AMERICAN CONDITION by Richard N. Goodwin. REFLECTIONS about the American social process. During the 19th cen. utopians concentrated on the elmination of material necessity. This was the promise of Marx, his predecessors & his progeny. In America, since the days of the founding fathers it was the assumption of Amer. freedom that all citizens would have...

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: BOSTON PARALLELS by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about 3 re-enactments of the Boston Tea Party, held in Boston to mark the 200th anniversary of the event. The Peoples Bicentennial Commission, a rival of the Congressional Bicentennial agency, staged the first Boston Oil Party, a huge counterdemonstration that overwhelmed the official re-enactment of the...

Poetry Cockaigne: A Dream by L. E. Sissman. Coming around the corner of the dream...

Poetry What She Is And Isn't by Alan Campbell. Her hair is dark free verse...