The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Supers by Mark Singer. Talk story about party thrown by Karen de Kleinman, owner and president of Apartment Locating, Inc., for Certain Carefully Chosen Apartment House Superintendents, at Tavern-on-the-Green. 115 of the 350 supers invited, all from buildings on the Upper East Side, attended the party. Door prizes were given out...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "The Deer Hunter", directed by Michael Cimino...

The Talk of the Town Annabel's by Charles Saxon. Talk story about Annabel's, the private club of England's upper classes, in London's Berkeley Square. Describes rich clientele and eclectic decor. Mark Birley, the proprietor, chooses every piece of art and decoration personally. The club is in an expanded basement under the Clermont Cub, now an exclusive gambling casino. Writer...

A Reporter at Large THE PIGGOTT BEQUEST by Burton Bernstein. A REPORTER AT LARGE about Los Angeles hermit Charles E. Piggott's bequest to the Van Wyck Brooks Memorial Fund, established by friends of man of letters and Bridgewater, Conn. resident Van Wyck Brooks, after his death in 1963. The fund was a flop until news of Piggott's bequest came in...

Fiction Further Christmas Suggestions From The Museum Gift Shop by James Stevenson. Twelve drawings showing gifts with Egyptian decorations, influenced by the current King Tutankhamun exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Horsemen at Laurel and Bowie are talking about the suspension of Dickie Dutrow Maryland's favorite trainer, vor violation of the rule on medication. Tells about the affair, which involves Butazolidin, a non-stimulating painkiller. Dutrow was granted a stay of his suspension, pending a hearing...

Fiction Hard Answers by John Mort. It often seems that there's nothing left but the darker side. How are you going to cope? This question is answered under these sub-headings: Courage, Not Your Own Fault, Machines, Love, On The Job, You Know Who You Are, The Way It Is, Free, Eat The Right Foods, and...

Reflections THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE by William Pfaff. REFLECTIONS about messianic cults, throughout time and the world, and in particular, the People's Temple, an American cult led by the Reverend Jim Jones, who, with over 900 followers, died in a mass suicide in Jonestown, Guyana. Reviews cults from all over the world and the social reasons for them...

Fiction Light From The Bay Windows by Robert Fitzgerald. The writer reminisces about his childhood. His mother died of childbed fever in 1913, when he was in his third year. His father was an invalid, with a wound in his hip, and he was bedridden. The boy remembers taking care of him, and also recalls his father's concern for...

Our Far-Flung Correspondents THE ONLY GAME IN TOWN by E. J. Kahn. OUR FAR-FLUNG CORRESPONDENTS about Atlantic City, N.J., where casino gambling is now legally underway at Resorts International, a hotel at North Carolina Ave. & the Boardwalk. New Jersey approved legalized gambling in Nov., 1976, and signed the Casino Control Act in June, 1977. Resorts International opened last May 26th...

Jazz EINFUHLING Jazz Pianist by Whitney Balliett.

Comment by Thomas Whiteside. Comment about dioxin contamination of fish downstream in the Tittabawassee River from the Dow Chemical Company plant at Midland, Michigan. The Michigan Dept. of Health found TCDD and other dioxins last June and advised against eating fish from the river and nearby waters. Dow is the world's largest producer of...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town The Carters at the Met by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Pres. and Mrs. Carter's trip to New York last week to attend a dinner in honor of former Mayor Abe Beame and a performance of "Aida" at the Metropolitan Opera House. The dinner, organized by Abe Feinberg, was to pay off Beame's campaign debts. It was held...

Letter from Iran by Joseph Kraft. LETTER FROM IRAN about demonstrations against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi’s government. There has been a religious revival in Iran, with strong political overtones. The creed of 90% of Iran's 36 million people is Shiite Islam, the minority branch of the Moslem religion. The current religious leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, became...

Poetry Rain Forest by Dave Smith. The green mothering of moss knits shadow and light...

Poetry Guitar by David St. John. I have always loved the word guitar...

Poetry Refusing to Serve - Dawn, 1952 by Philip Levine. Dawn. 1952. Late in the year...