The Talk of the Town Staten Island Boys by Stanley Mieses. Talk story about the David Johansen Group, the first all-Staten Island rock band to have a record on the charts. This makes David Johansen, the lead singer, Staten Island's first rock star, although he now lives in downtown Manhattan. Writer meets Johansen at South Ferry and boards Staten Island...

Books by Robert Coles.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Current Cinema A MIND PRESSED AGAINST A WINDOW by Penelope Gilliatt.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Sporting Scene THE KAISER AMONG THE COSMOS by Stephen Fay. THE SPORTING SCENE about Cosmos soccer player Franz Beckenbauer. Beckenbauer left Munich team, F.C. Bayern, to play for the Cosmos, signing a contract paying about $2 million for 4 years. Discusses negotiations Warner Communications, owners of the Cosmos, went through to sign Beckenbauer, and, earlier, Pele. Discusses how soccer has...

Affairs of State by Richard H. Rovere. Discusses the reaction of Pres. Carter and Zbigniew Brzezinski to the Russian and Cuban involvement in Africa, particularly Zaire. Carter seems to have been influenced by these events in that his enthusiasm for the arms treaty with Russia has lessened. Discusses the hardening of the Russian position, in areas such...

Fiction Teaching Poetry Writing to Singles by Veronica Geng. Parody of Kenneth Koch's recent books on teaching poetry writing to children and nursing home residents. Narrator decides to teach poetry writing to singles in a singles bar, Ozymandias II. One of the students is Emily and her poem begins: "I dreamt I was a Key Club/ Select Fraternity. . .", a...

Fiction Daughters by Mary A. Robison. Dell and her 8-year-old daughter Charlotte live with Dell's father, Gene, in a suburb of Erie, Pa. When Dell first divorced her husband, she and Charlotte rented from Pierce and Nicholas, two men who run a green house and live together. Pierce and Nicholas give Dell and Charlotte...

The Talk of the Town Leisure by Mark Singer. Talk story about Helene Borey, who runs an afternoon cooking school on the East Side. Mrs. Borey believes the kitchen is the new leisure-time playground for adults. Tells about her pupils: Janey and Lou Klein, Norman and Betty Menell, Marshall and Diane Felenstein. Writer describes a typical class, observing...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. At Belmont Park the Shuvee Handicap was won by Charles T. Wilson, Jr.'s One Sum...

Comment by Horace Judson. Comment about the arrests and trials of Soviet dissidents Alexander and Kyril Podrabinek and others. Kyril Podrabinek, 25, was a guard at a railway crossing in a Moscow suburb until his arrest last December 29th. Last March 14th, he was tried and convicted on evidence that consisted of an underwater...

Our Local Correspondents A Calm, Pleasant Day by Fred C. Shapiro. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS giving many statistics gathered about New York City on June 15th, 1977, a randomly selected typical weekday. Tells the weather and gives long list of statistics on: number of births, deaths, marriages, bankruptcies, animals collected, cars passing through certain crossings, tolls, boats entering the port, passengers on...

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Profiles HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THEM? by E. J. Kahn. PROFILE of Richard Lewis Clutterbuck, a 60-year-old lecturer at the Univ. of Exeter in Devon, England, where he gives a seminar on political violence. It may be the only such course offered on any campus anywhere. The author of 7 timely books - including "Living with Terrorism", which was...

Poetry The Warm Connection by Barry Spacks. Lost in sadness in this sad world...

Poetry Last Laugh by Robert Penn Warren. The little Sam Clemens, one night back in Hannibal...

Poetry Participant by Elizabeth Libbey. You wait for something to happen...