A Reporter at Large PERSONS IN NEED OF SUPERVISION by Lis Harris. A REPORTER AT LARGE about Persons in Need of Supervision (PINS), children legally classified as status offenders. PINS is the legal category named in the NY State Family Court Act of 1962, but 41 states have written the judicial category into their laws. Tells how PINS are defined in different...

The Talk of the Town Imprinting by Faith McNulty. Talk story about a starling that the writer adopted unwillingly on her Rhode Island farm. The writer did not want the bird to become imprinted by her--to believe that a human was its mother. Describes the elaborate steps the writer took in order to teach the bird how to...

The Theatre MORTUARY MUSICAL by Brendan Gill.

The Current Cinema GLAZED by Penelope Gilliatt.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. The subpoenas served on the Times and its reporter Myron Farber at the request of the defense in the murder trial of Dr. Mario E. Jascalevich require them to turn over all Farber's notes on the case. If the subpoenas survive appeal, they will set a damaging precedent for newspapermen...

Fiction Whose Who? by Roy Blount. A People-Item Journalist Takes on the History of Mankind) Writer ridicules "tidbit journalism" of the sort that appears in magazines like "People," under the headline "Notes on People" in the NY Times, and other gossip columns. He covers the separation of Java Man an Java Woman(it couldn't work...

Puzzle Puzzles by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Joel Levine, New York's one full-time professional repairer of music boses, and his colleague, Marion R. Frazier, the city's one full-time repairer of reproducing grand pianos and reproducing pipe organs. They work in a loft at 12 East Twelfth St and call their business Automatic...

Fiction Attracta by William Trevor. Attracta is the Protestant teacher for a small town in County Cork, Ireland. She is 61 and unmarried. One day she reads a newspaper article about an English girl, Penelope Vade, who commited suicide in Belfast. Vade's husband had been in the British Army which occupied Belfast and when he...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. At Monmouth Park last Saturday, the Dogwood Stable's Delta Flag won the $100,000 Monmouth Invitational Handicap. Larry Jennings is his trainer...

Profiles PAYING SAM BACK by James Stevenson. PROFILE of Bernard Meltzer, host of a radio program called "What's Your Problem?" on station WOR in New York. The program, which offers guidance for living to people who call Meltzer, is the most popular of any show aired in New York in its time-slot (weekdays 8 to 10...

Poetry The Sun Underfoot among the Sundews by Amy Clampitt. An ingenuity too astonishing...

Poetry Mountain Ponies by Ted Walker. Driving before dawn, higher...

Poetry Blue Waves by David St. John. I think sometimes...