Comment by Daniel Menaker. Peter Weiss is a trademark lawyer here in New York. He has defended, among many others, the appellations Superman, Chanel & Ultrasuede against those who would make free with them. Writer called him up last week to talk about the Supreme Court's decision in June that had the right, under...

Personal History AMONG THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM by Ved Mehta. PERSONAL HISTORY about the writer's 1st year at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. It was at the end of June, 1952 & he was back in class only a month or so after leaving the Arkansas School for the Blind, in Little Rock, where he had gone to high school...

Books by John Updike.

The Theatre by Mimi Kramer.

The Talk of the Town Holography by James Lardner. Talk story about an exhibit of pulse-laser holograms at the Museum of Holography on Mercer Street. Mr. Byrne, lead singer of the Talking Heads, was invited to sit for a complimentary portrait taken by the pulse-laser, which makes it possible to take portraits without the subject having to...

The Talk of the Town Freedom by Susan Orlean. Talk story in diary form about Freedom Place, a short broad road that runs from W. 66th St. to W. 70th, between West End Ave. & the old rail yards. The road was built about 20 years ago, on top of a dirt hill that was left over after Lincoln...

Fiction Midnight Magic by Bobbie Ann Mason. Steve works at a mattress factory near Paducah, Ky. He has an elaborately decorated car called Midnight Magic. It is Sunday & Steve is a wreck, still half drunk. Last night he & his girlfriend, Karen, quarrelled. He doesn't remember why. He'll be glad when his friends Doran & Nancy...

Books by John Updike.

Books by John Updike.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Letter from Europe by Jane Kramer. The writer's neighbor, Anna Silva (pseud.) has not lost Portuguese so much as she has learned, in over 20 years in Paris, to feel in French. She may talk Portuguese to the other concierges on the block & write letters to her son, Raul, in Portuguese but her exclaimations are...

The Current Cinema TENDER HOOEY by Pauline Kael.

The Talk of the Town Who's That Girl by Judith Thurman. Talk story about a middle-aged cub reporter whose 16-year-old goddaughter, Camilla, is visiting her from the small Tuscan city, Montalcino. Writer takes Camilla to the Cinaplex Odeon National Twin Theatre on 44th St. and B'way to see Madonna at the premiere of the star's new movie, "Who's...

Poetry Little Eleby with Books and Beasts by Nancy Willard. Winters when the gosling froze to its nest...