Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Bread Store by Jane Dienstfrey. Talk story about the A. Zito Bakery in Greenwich Village. The bakery is the subject of a 1937 photograph, titled "Bread Store, 259 Bleecker Street," by Berenice Abbott, and is still at the address in the photo, which is on display in replica over the counter. Charles Zito and his...

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Pretty Baby". This Louis Malle film is set in a brothel in Storyville, the red-light district of New Orleans, in 1917. The screenplay is by Polly Platt, from a story by her and Malle himself, which was provoked by a book of photographs and interviews called "Storyville...

Fiction Serenade by Veronica Geng. Journal of a woman confined in a room with 24 other women by a man who is organizing a harem. He shows no interest in any of them. They while away the weeks by taking correspondence courses. One day the diarist is looking out the single high window and recognizes...

Reflections SECRETS by Richard Harris. REFLECTIONS about Richard Helms, former CIA director, falsely denying to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the CIA had been involved in Chile's domestic politics. His excuse for lying was protection of national security. Writer tells how he might have avoided direct answers without lying. Soon after Pres. Carter came...

U. S. Journal ALTERNATIVES by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: SEATTLE, WASH. about the alternative press. Representatives of about 30 alternative weeklies met recently in Seattle to discuss, among other matters, the possibility of forming a sort of trade association. They decided against describing their papers as "alternative". The working title that the Seattle conferees finally decided on...

Comment by Mark Singer. Letter from a friends: "Boy, am I honked off... I mean, my hide is really fried... Ten o'clock this morning...they close my personal entrance ramp to the West Side Highway at Nineteenth Street... The Karl Koch Erecting Company, of Carteret, New Jersey, has begun to demolish twelve more blocks...

The Talk of the Town Whistling by Mark Singer. Talk story about skateboarders and the use of whistles. Describes skateboarders massing at the top of Highway Hill, a five-block stretch of roadway extending from 79th St. to 74th St. in Central Parks, and whistling during their descent. Tells about competition between bicyclists and skateboarders for Highway Hill. At...

The Theatre by Brendan Gill. In a review of "Dancin'" writer quotes Fitzgerald's epigraph on the title page of "The Great Gatsby...

Fiction Down on the Farm by Albert Haley. Elvin arrives at a family reunion on a rundown farm in Oklahoma with wife Lois and son Bobby. The heat and wasps Elvin notices fill the atmosphere with tension. Curtis, married to Elvin's sister Janie, has driven from Oregon with wife, teenage daughter Betty Lynn, and 3 younger children. Curtis...

The Sporting Scene UP THE YEARS FROM QUEANBEYAN by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about Mrs. Heather McKay, Australian squash champion. Mrs. McKay, 36, has not lost a match since early 1962. She and her husband, Australian-born teaching pro Brian McKay, live in Toronto where they teach and run the pro shop at the Toronto Squash Club. Tells about their...

The Talk of the Town Zoo News by Calvin Tomkins. Talk story about Bronx Zoo. The writer saw various snakes, a pair of hawks, an elk, a kookaburra egg and much more with William G. Conway, the general director of the New York Zoological Society. Conway tells about the society's extensive research and conservation programs in Georgia, Uganda, Argentina, and...

Poetry The Bird in the Dooryard by Elizabeth Macklin. At my mother's house there is a bird that sings...

Poetry Impatiens by Howard Moss. Your current pain no longer divides you...