Profiles A WELFARE MOTHER by Susan Sheehan. PROFILE of Carmen Santana (fictitious name), a welfare mother. She lives in a 4-room apt. in the Williamsburg section of Bklyn., with the 4 children she had by a man named Vicente Santana, whom she lived with from 1959, when she first came from Puerto Rico to N.Y.C. until...

Fiction The Search For An Ancestress by Sylvia Townsend Warner. The Elfin Court of Zuy, in the Low Countries, had a profitable stake in the East India trade. Their commercialism was scorned in other Elfin courts. When Sir Eusebuis of Zuy went with an embassy to the Elfin Court of Broceliande this scorn was implied by reference to Broceliande's unique...

The Air (On Television) The New Season by Michael J. Arlen.

The Race Track Turnabout by G. F. T. Ryall. It doesn't pay to tamper with the races at Bowie. After a trial last week jockey Ben Feliciano & 3 others were found guilty in U.S. District Court in Baltimore of conspiring to fix a race known as the Valentine's Day Triple, and of conspiring to evade the tax law...

The Talk of the Town Unpacked by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about an exhibit of 43 paintings from Russia, at the Knoedler Gallery on E. 70th St., that is part of a 2-way loan negotiated by Dr. Armand Hammer, chairman of the board of Knoedler, with the Russian Ministry of Culture, in exchange for a similar exhibit of...

The Talk of the Town Optimism at the Commodore by Fred C. Shapiro. Talk story about auction by the City Department of Real Estate at the Hotel Commodore of properties it had acquired through tax forfeiture, condemnation, or relinquishment by another city agency. NYC's Real Estate Commissioner Ira Duchan said that the city expects to sell about 65% of the properties offered. By...

Letter from Paris by Janet Flanner. By law a French worker is paid full wages for his one month's holiday; a worker who has been fed and lodged through the year also gets a small allocation for food & lodging while on vacation. In 1936 Leon Blum and his Socialistswere the first French govt. to improve...

The Current Cinema Lazarus Laughs by Pauline Kael. W. H. Auden is quoted in review of Luchino Visconti's new film "Conversation Piece". Writer says we get the film's sexual rationale when one of the characters recites Auden's "last poem:" "When you see a fair form, chase it And if possible embrace it, Be it a girl or a...

The Talk of the Town An Elysian Field by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a dinner with the old curmudgeon at The Palace, which is the most expensive restaurant in the world, charging fifty bucks a head, plus a suggested 23% service charge, plus cocktails, plus wine, plus tax, for a one-sitting, twelve-course French dinner that it takes four...

Comment by Donald Barthelme. A Fable: One Day a shrewd and learned Vizier of the Intelligence Community, who thought nobody could pull the Alpaca over his Eyes, was manning his Desk waiting for some lowly Other Rank to come up with another Crackbrained Scheme he could Swat, thus saving the Public many Doubloons and...

Around City Hall IT IS MY HEAD NOW by Andy Logan. AROUND CITY HALL about the financial crisis. On Sept. 8 Gov. Carey brought before an extraordinary session of the State Legislature a makeshift administrative structure devised to allow N.Y. to escape default on its debts. On Sep. 9 the Gov. signed the law just passed by the Legislature that transferred...

The Theatre PARADISE ENOW by Brendan Gill.

Our Local Correspondents Five New York Street Musicians by Anthony Hiss. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about 5 New York street musicians. There are several hundred good, pretty good, and not bad musicians playing on New York's streets now. James Graseck, who plays his violin on 5th Ave. & sometimes at night in the West Village, is putting away his earnings toward hiring...

The Talk of the Town The Management Experience by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the symposium called "The Management Experience" held at the Plaza Hotel presented by the Fashion Group Foundation, a 5,000-member international association of women fashion executives. 300 vertically mobile women and a handful of men attended and heard talks on "How To Market Yourself, to Negotiate" and...

Poetry Toil by C. K. Williams. After the argument - argument? battle, was, harrowing...

Poetry The Perspective And Limits Of Snapshots by Dave Smith. Aubrey Bodine's crosswater shot of Menchville...