Annals of Law II-IN CRIMINAL COURT by Richard Harris. ANNALS OF LAW about how legal counsel is provided for indigent defendants in Boston criminal cases. Writer observed courts in Dorchester & Roxbury & public defenders from the Mass. Defenders Committee & the Roxbury Defenders Committee. The M.D.C. is state financed & the R.D.C. is federally funded. Tells about how...

Musical Events May Day by Andrew Porter.

Comment by Janet Flanner. Obituary of Pablo Picasso, artist, who died at 91 on April 8th...

The Talk of the Town Working Mothers by Victor Chen. Talk story about a recent Tuesday designated as National Working Mothers' Day. Thelma Hazel, a black mother from Queens, was one of the speakers at a feminist sponsored rally held in City Hall Park. She said she had brought her children with her to work and that if the government...

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. The Nixon Administration has in the span of a few months faced many grave problems. The cease-fire in Vietnam is effective only to the extent that no Americans are currently engaged in combat there. It's said that Gen. Haig's report to the Pres. says that though killing continues on...

Fiction Son by John Updike. A series of reflections on the father-son relationship. The first one describes the author's own son. He wishes for perfection. He would be a better father than his father. But time tricked him and made him a son. The next memory is drawn from the author's childhood. His parents...

The Talk of the Town Final Day by Lillian Ross. Talk story about the final working day of Dr. Frank Stanton in his present post. He was retiring at the age of 65 from his most recent job as CBS vice-chairman. For more than 25 years he was president and chief operating officer of CBS. He had alot to...

The Sporting Scene THE VALLEY OF THE KHANS by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about squash. Tells about the career of Hashim Khan, the greatest squash-racquests player of all time. He was born in Pakistan, began his squash career there & later played in England, before making his American debut in 1954 at the age of 38 (it has been...

The Race Track A Key Worth Having by G. F. T. Ryall. Sunday racing has come to Calif. - to Hollywood Park. The day before the long summer meeting opened last week, Jimmy Kilroe, who runs the show, announced the innovation. Well, it's as sure as anything can be on a race track that Santa Anita and Del Mar will also run on...

Fiction The Violin Maker by Jack Cope. Pitjie sat in his shelter at Okoab, in the Kalahari Desert of S. Africa. Not far from his shelter were the tests belonging to the leader of the prospecting team, Kleinba. He was a white geologist from Johannesburg, here to search for diamond-bearing rock. In another tent lay Jonkman...

The Current Cinema LOVE, PIRATES, AND TATTLERS by Penelope Gilliatt.

Poetry Spring Song by L. E. Sissman. Life is so long the passage of the seasons...