Musical Events Muses by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Tribute by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a tribute to former Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas at the 25th anniversary dinner of the National Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. The N.E.C.L.C., as it is called, is sometimes referred to as "the other civil-liberties group", to distinguish it from the larger & older American...

Our Footloose Correspondents Comment by Berton Roueche. One of our occasional correspondents, an investment banker who spends much of his time in the country, has sent us a report. He was walking in a stretch of deep woods when a movement caught his eye. It was a tree in a clearing just ahead - a branchless stick of...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Fiction Sense And Centenaries by H. F. Ellis. A parody of Jane Austen's novels in which Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch Hall, Somersetshire, and his daughters, Anne and Elizabeth, are at home reading, "Who Was Who." Anne discovers that Jane Austen, born Dec. 16, 1775, would be two hundred years old this Christmas. Her father scoffs at novelists...

Books The Eye of the Beholder by Rogers E. M. Whitaker.

Fiction Reminiscences: Places And People by Woody Allen. Reminiscences about places and people. Brooklyn: The Bridge...and candy stores. A vendor is set apon by dogs and chased up a tree. Unfortunately, there are more dogs at the top of the tree. Ebbets Field. .. Sheephead Bay... New Orleans: a jazz band plays as a body is lowered into...

The Current Cinema Kubrick's Guilded Age by Pauline Kael. Review of "Barry Lyndon", Stanley Kubrick's film from Thackeray's novel...

The Talk of the Town Women of Style by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about Diana Vreeland who took the writer to see a show she organized for the Costume Institute of the Metropolitan Museum. It is called "American Women of Style." Lists the women whose clothes were shown. Writer saw the parts of the exhibit devoted to Millicent Rogers, who designed...

Fiction Christmas by Vladimir Nabokov. Sleptsov had come from St. Petersburg to his manor in the country, for only a couple of days. He settled in the Annex. Ivan, the quiet, portly valet lit Sleptsov's room and walked towards a park. He came to a footbridge where his son had played in the summer. Just...

Profiles THE QUACK AND DISNEY by Anthony Hiss. PROFILE of Clarence "Ducky" Nash the voice of Donald Duck. Tells about Disney's early days and about how he O.K.'d all productions at the srudio, suggested an occasional gag, edited scripts, made sure the timing of each film was perfect, and read The Mouse's lines in the cartoons. He...

The Talk of the Town Self-Employed by Victor Chen. Talk story about messenger services that specialize in two-wheeled transportation, and a visit to the offices of Mobile Messenger Service. In 1965 the first modest-sized N.Y. outfit to offer two-wheeled courier service came into being. It was Coleman Younger Motorcycle Messenger & Trucking Co. & it still...

Poetry The Peaceable Kingdom, France by Edward Albee. This is the peaceable kingdom...

Poetry The Birth of the Miraculous Child by Norman Williams. In the dark morning when most children are born...