Letter from Cairo by Joseph Kraft. Tells about recent events & current political climate in Egypt under Pres. Anwar al-Sadat, who assumed leadership after the death of Pres. Gamal Abdel Nasser in Sept., 1970. Sadat lives well & has catered almost exclusively to the upper middle class that dominates the professions, the civil service, &...

The Talk of the Town Sunshine Boy by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about a visit with Joe Smith of Smith and Dale, a legendary vaudeville team. Smith and Dale are the team Neil Simon's new play "The Sunshine Boys", is based upon. In the play Sam Levene is always poking Jack Albertson in the chest. When Charlie Dale died in...

The Current Cinema Lady Zelda by Pauline Kael. Review of "Trick Baby". The cast is mostly black & it's based on the book by Iceberg Slim, who is Robert Beck, the black pimp turned writer...

The Race Track New Star by G. F. T. Ryall. Typecast brought $750,000 at auction. The English agency that bought the horse hasn't divulged whom it was acting for, but it is generally believed that it represented Japanese interests that for some time have been buying the best bloodstock available. (Last week Countess Margit Batthyany sold San San, the best...

Fiction The Bell by Arturo Vivante. It Italy a son took care of his ailing, bedridden father. It was 3 a.m. when the father rang the bell to summon the son. The son went, only to find that the father wanted him to close the window, although they were already tightly closed. That night he was...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Comment by Donald Barthelme. Comment telling a made-up story about Basker and Letitia Filter of Norman, Okla., who got invited to the White House to a party hosted by the Pres. The first person they saw when they arrived was their friend Code d'Havenon, an intimate of the Pres. & a famous PR...

The Talk of the Town White Blossom by Victor Chen. Talk story about the activities of Medical Aid for Indochina, a year-old organization that has become the center of fund-raising for the reconstruction of medical facilities destroyed by American bombing - most notable among these is the Bach Mai Hospital Emergency Fund. The Center is located at 140 Sixth...

Musical Events Modern Pleasures by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town For Immediate Release by Anthony Hiss. Talk story telling about a series of publicity and press releases the "New Yorker" received in the mail this week, absolutely unsolicited...

Profiles I-THE DELTOID PUMPKIN SEED by John McPhee. PROFILE of the Aereon aircraft,developed by Princeton, N.J.-based Aereon Corporation, composed of engineers, ministers, & consultants. Founded in 1959 by Presbyterian minister Monroe Drew & former Navy aeronautical engineer John Fitzpatrick, the Aereon Corp. designed & tested many models. By 1970, the design became a practical compromise between...

Books To Be an Indian by Robert Coles.

Fiction The Slim Graves Show by Garrison Keillor. Last summer Wingo Beals and His Blue Movers lost their 5 a.m. radio show for Powdermilk biscuits. They were replaced by the Slim Graves Show starring Slim Graves, his wife Billie Ann Twyman, and a band, the Southland Sheiks, featuring Courteous Carl Harper, the Guitar Man. Like all the other...

Poetry Two Poems by Robert Graves. That was no costume jewelry I sent...

Poetry Dogfish by Daniel G. Hoffman. He lurks and sidles away out of sight. But when you...