The Talk of the Town Opening by George W. S. Trow. Talk. Dick Gidron, a 34-year-old black man from Chicao, gave a party the other day to celebrate the official opening of the business he now owns & operates here. His business is Dick Gidron Cadillac, Inc. It is on East Fordham Road in the Bronx, and is the...

Profiles MONEY MUSIC by George W. S. Trow. PROFILE of Kal Rudman, who promotes records & picks hits in the AM-Top-Forty-radio section of the popular-music business. At 42 & a former disc jockey, he enjoys considerable influence over what records become hits (by his speaking with program & music directors of the most important...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "Images", directed by Robert Altman, from an original screenplay by Altman, plus improvisations...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

Fiction Christmas Eve by Maeve Brennan. It was Christmas Eve in Dublin and Delia Bagot was preparing her children, Margaret and Lily, for bed. Her husband, Martin, was downstairs reading the paper waiting to come to say good-night to them. As he sat he thought about his family. It was a united family. He thought...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) by Harold Rosenberg.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town by Wayne Woolston. A skeptical friend reports that he approaches the New Year with unmistakable confidence as a result of coming across a Chinese fortune cookie that carried the message "Very soon, and in pleasant company...

The Talk of the Town Hardware Store by Susan Sheehan. Talk story about the New Hippodrome Hardware Store, located at 70 West 45 St. The New Hippodrome doesn't sell household appliances, pots and pans, glassware, or any of the other department store items that most hardware stores go in for these days. It specializes in maintenance equipment and its assortment...

Television Comment by Jonathan Schell. Watching men on the moon on our television sets during the last few years has been a disorienting experience. It is as though the elated, bouncing figures on our screens had gone someplace our imagination couldn't as yet follow. We look out of our window at the moon. Then we...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Our Far-Flung Correspondents THE FALCONS OF MORRO ROCK by Faith McNulty. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about the peregrine falcons of Morro Rock, Calif., an endangered species, and attempts over the past several years to aid in their survival. Morro Rock is located on the central California coast near the city of Morro Bay. It is part of the Morro Bay State...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. For your Christmas book list: "The Spanish Riding School" (McGraw-Hill $29.95). It's by Colonel Hans Handler, the director of the school where the Lipizzaners are trained. The illustrations include a remarkable collection of photographs by Erich Lessing...

The Talk of the Town A Very Visible Sheen by William Wertenbaker. Talk story about an oil spill from the British ship Vitta which recently ran aground in the East River. The Vitta is an oil tanker and she was carrying 173,000 barrels of No. 6 fuel oil. It was one of the larger cases of pollution in New York Harbor recently...

Poetry Greetings Friends! by Frank Sullivan. If his Muse is not depleted...