Cover artist: Arthur Getz Publication Date: August 8, 1977 Page Count: 76 pages In this issue:Fiction By the Yellow Lake by Peter Marsh. The narrator, a young man, lives with his mother in a Priory community, near a large, yellow lake. His grandfather had been a minister who bad taken retreat at the Priory. After the narrator's father had left home, the narrator's mother moved to the Priory. The narrator does not like... The Current Cinema A Fable by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "La Grande Bourgeoise", directed by Mauro Bolognini... Comment by Richard Harris. Comment quoting two N.Y. "Times" editorials following the riots at the time of the recent power failure. The paper compared these riots in Harlem & Bklyn. with the riots that raged through American cities during the 1960s. All were confined to the poorest neighborhoods & were the work of young... The Race Track Getaway Day by G. F. T. Ryall. The Sunset at Hollywood Park was won by Crystal Water, owned by Mrs. Connie Ring. Last month this horse took the Hollywood Gold Cup... Reflections CRIME IN THE F.B.I. by Richard Harris. REFLECTIONS about crimes committed by the F.B.I.. Gives long list of crimes Committed by members of the Bureau over a long period of time revealed by investigations by Congress and the press in the past couple of years. Discusses the government's reluctance in punishing or reforming the F.B.I.. Tells about... The Talk of the Town Styles by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the 19th c. estates, built along the Hudson River, in Red Hook and Rhinebeck, NY. The estates are in financial trouble and need the kind of help provided by the National Trust for Historic Preservation(chartered by Congress, 1949; 100,000 members). Writer visited Montgomery Place, built in... Books Containers by Richard H. Rovere. The Sporting Scene TULSA AND TURNBERRY: TWO EXCEPTIONAL OPENS by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about the U.S. Open & the British Open golf matches. The British Open, which Tom Watson won in early July, was played for the first time ever on the Ailsa course, in Turnberry, about 50 miles south of Glasgow. Technically it should be referred to as the... Fiction The Headrag by Berry Morgan. Willie Ruth, a black woman who lives in King's Town, south of Natchez, Mississippi, takes care of a white man's child when he has to go to New Orleans. She stays with the child in the white man's house and is not supposed to unlock the door until he returns... Musical Events Popular Records by Douglas Watt. Poetry By the Ruins of a Gun Emplacement: Saint-Benoit- Sur-Loire by James Wright. Behind us, the haystack rustles... Poetry Talismans by Jorge Luis Borges. A copy of the first edition of the "Edda Islandorum... |