Fiction Plymouth: 1939 by Kevin O'Neill. Story about a boy living in Brooklyn during World War II. Some nights his father sent him to Skelly's bar to get a bucket of beer. Although he worked for the fire company, his father fancied himself to be a designer and, with his friend Cullen, was constantly sending sketches...

The Talk of the Town Hat Forms by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about a talk with Marvin I. Bornfriend, of Philadelphia, the man behind the vogue for ladies' hat forms. Mr. Bornfriend, an architect, had gone to look at the building of the former Ann Burrows Company (millinery school, factory, and store), which he was considering for renovation. There he...

Fiction The Bullfrog Pond by James McConkey. Sigurd, an Icelander, and his wife Jennifer, a native Californian, both teach in Reykjavik. They are visiting writer in upstate New York. Writer and Sigurd were at Cornell together. Writer has visited Sigurd in Iceland with his wife, Jean, and their 3 sons. Jean and Jennifer are out and the...

Books Virginia Woolf by Mollie Panter-Downes.

Musical Events Buzz, Buzz! by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre OUTWITTING WITCHES by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Drummer by Daniel Menaker. Talk story about a young man who practices the drums at Riverside Drive and about 123rd St. in the early evening around 6 o'clock. Writer, who runs on the street-level mall of Riverside Park near Columbia University, sees him there and one evening last week stopped to talk with...

Annals of the Former World II-BASIN AND RANGE by John McPhee. ANNALS OF THE FORMER WORLD about geology and how it tells of the earth's past history. Writer travelled to Western U.S. with Princeton geology professor Kenneth Deffeyes. He told about the origins of modern geology and gave the highlights of earth's history as shown through geology. He was in Nevada...

The Talk of the Town Sculpture by Marion Knox Barthelme. Talk story about the work of sculptor George Segal. He has created a realistic group of four life-size figures titled "Gay Liberation." It is intended for Christopher Park, at the intersection of Christopher, Grove, and West Fourth Streets, in Greenwich Village. The sculpture, a gift from the Mildred Andrews...

The Air (On Television) The Modulating of the Presidency by Michael J. Arlen.

The Current Cinema The Frog Who Turned Into a Prince, The Prince Who Turned Into a Frog by Pauline Kael. Lengthy review of Woody Allen's latest film, "Stardust Memories,O in which the writer discusses Allen's Jewish self-hatred as depicted in his work...

Comment by Donald Barthelme. Comment about communicating with the President of the moon. Writer says: "I wrote a letter to the President of the moon, asked him if they had towaway zones up there. The cops had towed away my Honda and I didn't like it. Cost me seventy-five dollars to get it...

Poetry The Season of Phantasmal Light by Derek Walcott. Then all the nations of birds lifted together...

Poetry Housework by William Matthews. How precise it seems, like a doll house...

Poetry Debts by Robert Long. Things disappear...