The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Salomone rold Hold Your Peace in the Everglades Stakes at Hialeah...

Profiles FORESIGHT, NIGHTMARE, AND HINDSIGHT by E. J. Kahn. PROFILE of John Service, retired diplomat & China expert, who, between 1945 & the 1950s, was unremittingly harassed by Sen. Jos. McCarthy & his anti-Communist followers. In the course of Foreign Svc. duties during W.W. II, in China, Service was one of a very few American diplomats whom Mao...

The Talk of the Town Turkey Hash for Breakfast by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the largest auction of railroad memorabilia ever held. The Penn Central put up for sale 1877 lots of assorted artifacts. The auction was held in the south concourse of Philadelphia's Thirtieth Street Station...

Fiction The Scribe by Alexander Frater. The Fijian firewalkers came to the island of Tofua to find a scribe to write down the will of the chief firewalker. The Scribe's name was Jonathan. He taught in the adult education program at school. The Orator, a govt. officer, was talking to his class, when Lucy, the Scribe's...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Most people are familiar with the form letter that claims you have been "selected" for some high honor, but is really trying to sell you something. Now, in a mailing sent out by the Finance Committee for the Reelection of the President, this device has been adapted for political use...

Musical Events by Winthrop Sargeant.

Fiction Meanwhile, Back At The Crunch... by S. J. Perelman. Writer recalls a bustle of activity during an afternoon in 1946 in a room at the Warwick Hotel in Phila. He is reminded of a piece by Maurice Zolotow in TV "Guide" on the tribulations writers are currently experiencing on the Coast. Writer wonders if viewers are sympathetic with these...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Tokyo Story", a work by the great Japanese director, Yasujiro Ozu (1903-63), who made 53 films in his lifetime. Evaluates his work...

The Talk of the Town Zeffirelli by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Franco Zeffirelli, Florentine director and designer who works with equal assurance in films, opera and the theatre. Tells about some of his past work in opera. One of his recent projects was direction of a production of "Otello" at the Metropolitan Opera. Description of a rehearsal &...

The Talk of the Town Spokesman by Jane Kramer. Talk story about John Hume, a spokesman who has done as much as any Catholic in Ulster to keep peaceful resistance alive during the past year of IRA & British Army violence. Hume is not specifically anti-IRA, but he is anti-violence, & though IRA violence was a big...

Letter from the Space Center by Henry S. F. Cooper. LETTER about Apollo 16 mission beginning Apr. 16 which will be next-to-last Apollo flight. After Apollo flight in Dec. '72, U.S. has no plans to send any craft, manned or unmanned, back to the moon, though some scientists feel a permanent observation post should be set up on...

Poetry Up and Down by James Merrill. 1. Snow King Chair Lift The first part of this long poem...