The Talk of the Town Ticket by Berton Roueche. Talk story about a friend who lives in the country and was stopped by police for speeding; he was on the main highway which is also the village Main Street, and given a ticket. He was charged with driving 45 m.p.h. in a 20 mile school zone. Tells how he...

The Talk of the Town by E. J. Kahn. Obituary of Robert Shaplen, who died on Sunday, May 15, 1988, at age 71. He had his first byline in "The New Yorker" in 1943...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Burden by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about Scottish artist David Mach... His gallery is the Barbara Toll gallery, on Greene Street just below Houston... Tells how Tom Cvikota, Toll's assistant, helped with the installation Mach made for the gallery, out of 30,000 magazines, by tearing a magazine in half along its spine...

The Sporting Scene A MASTERS TO REMEMBER by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about the Masters golf tournament... The rise of the Masters, the youngest by far of golf's major tournaments, seems in retrospect to have had a certain inevitability. The game's 3 other major events were first played in 1860, 1895 & 1916 respectively. When the Masters was inaugurated...

The Talk of the Town Hats by Elizabeth Morgan. Talk story about a visit to Bloomingdale's to speak with Hatman Jack Kellogg about a party at Bloomindale's to kick off its promotion of Kansas food and crafts--Bloomingdale's version of the Kansas State Fair. Writer didn't get invited to the party but a few days after it was held...

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. Jean-Marie Le Pen is the man who just ran for President of France on a platform--if the word applies--of throwing foreigners out of the country... He wants to be President. It is unlikely that he ever will be President, but 4 1/2 million people voted for him...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Dancing by Alastair Macaulay.

Fiction Mar Nueva by Mark Helprin. The narrator returns to Mar Nueva, a place in a fictitious South American country, after more than a 50 year absence. This is where he spent his childhood summers with his family. The memories come flooding back of the summer when his sister, Claudia, was 17 and he was 10...

Profiles THE INITIATOR Staff consultant to NBC News by Mark Singer.

Comment by Cynthia Zarin. Comment about the FBI's Library Awareness Program, in which special agents attempt to make contact with the staff members of certain libraries & ask them to keep an eye on the borrowing habits of individuals... The program is said to be specifically aimed at NYC, because of the many scientific...

Books by George Steiner.

Poetry Concerning K by Richard Howard. Not one breath. Even the flags had...flagged...

Poetry Ornament in a Port City by Elizabeth Macklin. The wind--and there is a wind--might as well be...