The Current Cinema Special Devotions by Donald Barthelme. Review of "The Green Room", drawn from Henry James, principally "The Altar of the Dead." It is a Francois Truffaut film...

The Talk of the Town Buttermilk by Rogers E. M. Whitaker. Talk story about E, M. Frimbo's visit aboard the Essayons, the Army's Corps of Engineers large turboelectric suction dredge ship, which travels along Buttermilk Channel removing silt from the floor of the channel. Tour of the ship was organized by the World Ship Society...

Fiction Acknowledgments by Paul Theroux. Thanks are due to Dr. Milton Rumbellow, Chairman of the Dept. of Comparative Lit., Yourgrau College for generously allowing me a small course load and then an indefinite leave of absence...to the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation for extending my fellowship to two years...the British Tourist Authority for...

The Talk of the Town Noon by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about some activities on Monday, Sept. 10th at noon...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Sen. Henry Jackson has let it be known that the SALT II treaty will "go down the tubes" unless the Soviet Union withdraws from Cuba the Soviet brigade recently discovered there. Sen. Jackson feels that Soviet airplanes and submarines in Cuba constitute a threat to our lines of communication and...

Profiles THE SAN VINCENZO CELLS by Jane Kramer. PROFILE (all names fictitious) of an Italian Communist family called Cecchi, in the Umbrian village which the writer calls San Vincenzo...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Books by V. S. Pritchett.

The Talk of the Town Gathering by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a Fifth Ave. parade held to mark the hundredth anniversary of the founding of the architectural firm McKim, Mead & White. The parade was sponsored by the Classical America society. Marchers held scale models of well-known McKim, Mead & White buildings: the Washington Square Arch, the...

Around City Hall The Capital of Everything by Andy Logan. Review of events that have taken place in New York in recent weeks that will have long-range national and international repercussions. Tells about dramatic scene at Kennedy Airport where dancer Ludmila Vlasova was detained by American officials after the defection of her husband, Alexander Godunov, to the U.S. while...

Fiction The Last of the Gold Star Mothers by Carol Bly. In Rachel River, Minnesota, Mary Graving, 33, a divorcee with two children, has a local radio program in order to suppliment irregular alimony checks and a small income from her toymaking business. Tells about the local people the sheriff and young deputy who faithfully listen to Mary's inspirational program, a...

Poetry Moose in the Morning, Northern Maine by Mona Van Duyn. At 6 A.M. the log cabins...

Poetry A Fall by Howard Moss. A sadness now has entered into it...