The Talk of the Town Winner by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Robert F. Wagner, Jr., Democratic nominee for Manhattan councilman at large. Harris, a pollster, employed Wagner at one time, and helped analyze his former employee's primary showing...

The Race Track Thirty-one Lengths by G. F. T. Ryall. Predictably, and magnificently, the Meadow Stable's Secretariat galloped away with the Belmont Stakes by thirty-one lengths at Belmont Park. Writer says nothing he's ever seen in this race (and he goes back to Man o' War) was more comprehensive, and no triumph more thorough. In addition to his amazing...

The Talk of the Town by Doris Ross. Sign observed in the window of a health-food store on the upper East Side: WE NOW CARRY ARTIFICAL SPAGHETTI...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

The Talk of the Town Billions of Realities by Philip Hamburger. Talk story about Jean Dubuffet, the seventy-one year old French painter. He is small, wiry, and bald, permits his mind to hop, skip, jump and ricochet, and has an almost maniacal affection for New York. The conversation with Dubuffet took place at the Guggenheim, where some three hundred of...

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

The Talk of the Town by Rita Fischer. Fateful words heard last week on a WCBS weather broadcast: "Sunny, then disappearing...

Fiction Old Woman by Ivy Litvinov. The two Miss Gullivers, Madge and Jessie, were women in their sixties who lived together in London. Although they did not look that much alike, people could not remember which was which. They had a ten-year old cat, Nelson, and a minnow, Silver. Nelson occasionally tried to kill Silver...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In recent weeks, attempts have been made to simplify the shapeless, growing thing called Watergate down to a single question: Did the Pres. himself participate in a crime? He asks us to believe that he did not, & pleads that he was unaware of his subordinates' wrongdoing. Now that Watergate...

Profiles DRAMATIST by Jervis Anderson. PROFILE of black playwright Ed Bullins. At 37, he has written over 30 plays, by his count. Since 1967 he has been involved with & is the assoc. director of the New Lafayette Theatre, on 137th St. & Seventh Ave., in Harlem. His plays have also been produced by the...

The Current Cinema Smile and Say "Spinach" by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "O Lucky Man!" directed by Lindsay Anderson...

The Talk of the Town Opposition on the Sound by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about yacht ride from Rye to Glen Cove, following the route for a bridge across Long Island Sound. Many legislators oppose the bridge proposal, which is being strongly supported by Gov. Rockefeller. According to John Dyson, chairman of the Democratic Advisory Council, "Rockefeller's current idea is to have...

Fiction Reruns of the Mind by Arnold Sundgaard. The author thinks of various recurring memories. His memories of Hagerstown, Md. include reading the obituary of a man who had lived there, meeting a member of the family for whom the town was named, and being helped by a kind worker, in 1927, twenty miles west of the town...

Poetry In The Marriage-Bed by Douglas Dunn. Each minute of each day our childhood ends...