Profiles HURRY, HURRY! by Anthony Hiss. PROFILE of comedian Henny Youngman. Last year, at the age of 70, Youngman travelled half a million miles in the U.S. and Canada to do more than 220 engagement in top night clubs, talk shows, cruises, TV variety shows, and scores of one-nighters at hotels, colleges synagogues, etc. Youngman...

The Race Track Belmont Opening by G. F. T. Ryall. The N.Y. Racing Ass'n. has begun a promotional campaign to make more devotees of racing. There will be entertainers on Saturdays and holidays. There will also be two new ways to pick up some extra cash. One is called the Belmont Horse Sense Derby, and it will last 4 weeks...

Fiction The End of Bob's Bob House by Ian Frazier. Writer says that after 40 years and who knows how many stomachs pumped, they're closing down the old Bob House, where so many people had such great times and blacked out so many times over the years, and they are sure going to miss it. He goes on to tell...

The Talk of the Town The Man Himself by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about Johnny Phillips, the man generally regarded as New York's preeminent social-dance instructor. Johnny Phillips made a rare appearance one Saturday evening recently at the Phillips Dance Studios in the north Bronx, one of six Phillips dance studios to have been established since 1940, and one of...

The Current Cinema Giddy by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of Richard Benner's "Outrageous...

Annals of Medicine ALL I COULD DO WAS STAND IN THE WOODS by Berton Roueche. ANNALS OF MEDICINE about idiopathic hypogeusia, a condition that involves loss of taste acuity, often accompanied by distortion of taste & smell. Tells how Dr. Robert I. Henkin researched the disease, discovered its source, possible causes and how to cure it when he was chief of the Section of Neuroendocrinology...

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. Last week, Pres. Carter said he had seen no evidence that his friend Bert Lance, as a banker and politician in Georgia, had done anything "illegal, or even unethical'. The Pres. told his press conference he had studied the report by the Comptroller of the Currency on Lance's tangled finances...

Jazz Reissues by Whitney Balliett.

The Talk of the Town Forsythia by Judy Mellecker. Talk story about planting forsythia bushes over the area of the Park's Ramble, a popular birding spot in Central Park. The bird-watchers of Central Park bought the bushes, the Central Park Task Force planted them...

Books Stepmother Russia by George Steiner.

Comment by Anthony Hiss. Five thousand people, the most excited crowd that has hit Kennedy Airport since the Beatles came to New York in 1964...mobbed the New York Cosmos, the new champions of the North American Soccer League, when they flew back to town last week after squeezing by the Seattle Sounders in...

Fiction Torridge by William Trevor. Torridge was naive to the point where it was hard to believe he wasn't pretending, but his naivete was real. Of the same age as Torridge, but similar in no other way, were Wiltshire, Mace-Hamilton, and Arrowsmith. The friendship between the three of them developed because Torridge was what...

The Talk of the Town Finding Things to Say by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Joseph Blumenthal, 79, fine printer. He is considered by his colleagues to be the greatest fine printer in the country today. Tells about the praise Blumenthal has received from Robert Frost, Pres. F.D. Roosevelt, and the National Institute of Arts and Letters. His Spiral Press was in...

Poetry Goshawk, Antelope by Dave Smith. Against creamed snowpeaks (that country of blue sedge...

Poetry On Vacation A Woman Mistakes Her Leg by Leslie Ullman. On vacation a woman mistakes her leg...

Poetry The Prophet by Richard Shelton. recognized by the others...