The Theatre SON ET LUMIERE by Edith Oliver.

Dancing by Alastair Macaulay.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Irma Thomas by Mimi Read. Talk story about the rhythm-and-blues singer Irma Thomas, a.k.a. "the soul Queen of New Orleans," who recently sang at the Lone Star Cafe. She met her husband, Emile Jackson, at Mason's Las Vegas Strip, a block of clubs "in a black neighborhood in the heart of New Orleans...

The Talk of the Town The Talking Dog of the World by Ethan Mordden. In Hanley, W. VA., a man named Hopey used to hold a circus in a tent in his backyard in which a talking dog was featured. The dog, a poodle called Clown dog, wore a costume and a hat with pom-poms at all times, butonly talked at the circus...

American Chronicles IT'S OUR NAME by Calvin Trillin. AMERICAN CHRONICLES about a lawsuit claiming infringement of trademark involving John Houlihan and Mike Heyer, partners from Milwaukee. In downtown Milwaukee there was a huge shopping mall being built by the Rouse Corp. In 1982 the partners opened a standup beer bar there under the name of Mike Houlihan's, a...

The Talk of the Town Chinese Fossils by Henry S. F. Cooper. Talk story about fifty-one ancient Chinese dinosaur fossils and twenty-two of their American relatives which are to be exhibited at the American Museum of Natural History in a show entitled "From the Land of Dragons" which opens July 22nd. Dr. Eugene Gaffney, a specialist in vertebrate paleontology, told...

Fiction Spokane by Graham Coster. During a dinner party in August, Brian who lives in England receives a call from his friend Jo, who has been travelling worldwide for 6 mos. Now he is in Spokane and has met someone. He reports how "Two people just decide to use each other...without saying anything at...

The Current Cinema BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD by Terrence Rafferty.

The Talk of the Town Hands by Brendan Dealy. Talk story about Bernie Korman, a New York cabdriver, who also for the past thirty years has been making charcoal sketches of famous people's hands. Some of his other achievements include winning a car on a game show, writing a book, appearing on Betty Furness's t.v. show, and doing a...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Comment by Garrison Keillor. Summer makes us restless-especially these clear, blue postcard days when the Chrysler Building rises in the 43rd St. canyon like a finger beckoning east toward Europe. But it isn't Europe we're restless for... It's simply the old summer restlessness, which goes back to school days... Restlessness makes us think...

Annals of War AN AMERICAN SOLDIER IN VIETNAM IV-THE CIVILIAN GENERAL by Neil Sheehan. ANNALS OF WAR about John Paul Vann & the Vietnam war... The Vietnam to which John Paul Vann returned in late Marcl 1965 was a nation on the threshold of the most violent war in its history. At the beginning of the month, Lyndon Johnson had started Operation Rolling Thunder...

Poetry Two Poems by Carlos Drummond De Andrade. The innocents of Leblon...