The Talk of the Town Splashy by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the reopening of the refurbished Tavern-on-the-Green, in Central Park, at West 67th St., on Tuesday, Aug. 31. The Hardwicke Companies and Warner LeRoy, son of Mervyn LeRoy and grandson of Harry Warner, spent 2 1/2 million dollars on the 1 thousand-seat restaurant. Describes...

The Talk of the Town Falcons by Charles Patrick Crow. Talk story about the progress of the program to save the peregrine falcon, an endangered species. For the past few years, Dr. Cade, a professor of ornithology at Cornell, and Dr. Stanley Temple, a postdoctoral research associate, have been breeding the falcons in captivity at Cornell. They then release the...

Musical Events Concert Records by Winthrop Sargeant.

A Reporter in Washington Spring Notes~I by Elizabeth Drew. Diary notes, Apr. 13 to May 26 on Presidential candidates. Apr. 13, entry tells about Jimmy Carter's gaffe in an interview with N.Y. "News" reporter, in which he said: "I see nothing wrong with ethnic purity being maintained" in a neighborhood... In a press conference in Philadelphia, he apologized for...

Cartoon Hole! by Jack Ziegler. Illustrated fiction showing the world being sucked into a black hole. Man waits at bus stop, caption reads, "Plink a-plink a-plink," a hole appears at his feet, "Baaa Daaa," the hole widens, buildings and people disappear into it, "Bom Bom Bom," the world disappears into a black hole...

Comment by Laura Fortenbaugh. We have received a letter from a friend, who writes: We, my Volkswagen and I, just got back from a two-week trip to Colorado, and these are some of the things we saw: a young girl in a hard hat working on the highway in Maryland; haystacks sculptured by...

Letter from Sri Lanka by Robert Shaplen. Tells about the fifth Summit Conference of Non-Aligned Nations in Colombo, Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon). Representatives of 85 Third World countries & one extranational body, the Palestine Liberation Organization, attended the conference in mid-August. In speeches & in political & economic declarations & resolutions adopted by the conference...

The Talk of the Town Lady Polly and the Pearlies by Anthony Hiss. Talk interview with Pearl Binder, Lady Elwyn-Jones, about the Pearlies of the East End of London. Pearl Binder, 70-some-years-old, is the wife of the Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain. Under her maiden name of Pearl Binder, Lady Elwyn-Jones is a lithographer who has exhibited...

Fiction In The Hours Of Darkness by Edna O'Brien. As Elena drives her youngest son, Ian, to Cambridge University, she thinks that she is facing a predicament she had read about in novels-that of a divorced woman, bereft of children, having to grew old alone. She gets Ian settled in his rooms and checks into her own hotel...

Fiction Zwei Herzen In Die Drygoods Schlock by S. J. Perelman. The play begins with two quotations from the "Los Angeles Times," one, about dress designer Diane Von Furstenberg, the other, about Ron Talsky, a Hollywood costume designer. The scene is a closet in Los Angeles. Charisma von Ausgespielt, a dress designer, looks through her closet. Suddenly, Ricky Tickitavsky, a handsome...

Books The Strange Case of Dr. Destouches and M. Celine by John Updike.

The Race Track Back to Belmont by G. F. T. Ryall. At Belmont Park in the first division of the Fall Highweight Handicap, Stephen Clark, Jr.'s Relent, won...

The Current Cinema Study of a Man Under the Axe by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Kaseki", a Japanese film, directed by Masaki Kobayashi...

Poetry Blight On Elmo by Daryl Hine. Did they have to go, our shady neighbor's...

Poetry September by James Paul. Across the dark track the great wheel...