The Sporting Scene Centenary by Herbert Warren Wind. This summer Wimbledon celebrated its hundredth anniversary. The first Wimbledon was held in 1877. The All England Club, founded in 1868, conducts the renowned annual tennis tournament in Wimbledon, a suburb of London situated eight miles from Charing Cross. Mentions a number of champions from the last hundred years, in...

Books Ask for Nicolas Catari by Alastair Reid.

A Reporter at Large THE PENDULUM AND THE TOXIC CLOUD by Thomas Whiteside. REPORTER AT LARGE about dioxin, a toxic substance found in the herbicide 2, 4, 5-T. It was employed in aerial defoliation in S. Vietnam & was found to cause birth defects among offspring of Vietnamese women exposed to it. On Apr. 15, 1970 the U.S. Surgeon Gen. announced a...

The Current Cinema Hurrah by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of Herzog's "Stroszek". He is a W. German director, born in 1942...

The Race Track One for Rokeby Stable by G. F. T. Ryall. Glowing Tribute won the Sheepshead Bay Handicap at Belmont Park last Saturday. Mack Miller, her trainer, told how he shod her differently this time so that she would not kick herself...

Shouts & Murmurs by George W. S. Trow. Parody of diary notes from reporter on the 1976 Democratic Convention, the Presidential campaign, the Inauguration, and the beginning of Carter's administration. Notes focus on different approaches the reporter might take, i.e. write an instant book, write an essay, keep an in-depth campaign diary, write up the highlights of...

Poetry Listening To Jazz On A Summer Terrace by Howard Moss. The stars come out. They might be made of snow...