The Talk of the Town Pilgrims by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about a letter received from a student on holiday in Spain, who had a close encounter with the King and Queen, at Santiago de Compostela. This city is, along with Rome and Jerusalem, one of the three great pilgrimage places of Christendom. Legend has it that the remains...

Musical Events Marriages by Nicholas Kenyon.

Fiction The Accident by David Plante. Three American students at the university in Louvain, Belgium, have an automobile accident which kills one and leaves the other two scarred. Karen Larvens is rich and from Grosse Point. She's interested in Tom Devlin, a poor boy from the Bronx. A third student, Robert Maillet, joins them at a...

Comment by James Stevenson. To a visitor outside the city on a Friday evening, walking along a road where the sound of waves is carried by wind passing between shingled houses, causing screen doors to open a bit and close (bam) and over wide wooden porches, making potted plants shiver. Two kids at the...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL FIGURING by Andy Logan. City Council President Carol Bellamy will succeed Mayor Koch if he is elected governor. In the past, Koch has complained of what he has characterized as her negative attitude. Nowadays, the Mayor speaks well of her at every opportunity. For her part, she has endorsed him, and even stood in...

Books Mrs. Roosevelt by Naomi Bliven.

The Talk of the Town Simple by Alec Wilkinson. Talk story about Hometels, an American chain of motels located mainly in Arizona and Texas. The Waldorf-Astoria was the site of the Fourth Annual Hospitality Industry Investment Conference, where the president of Hometels Management Company, Inc., Stephen Oveson, addressed a seminar. In attendance at the two day conference were...

Fiction Fairy Tales by William Steig. Four drawings illustrating well-known fairy tales. They are captioned as follows: "Jack sells the cow for a few beans"; "Cinderella sees her stepsisters going off to the ball"; "The Wolf hides himself under the bedclothes"; "The Prince falls on his knees before the Sleeping Beauty...

The Talk of the Town Richard Rew's Sculpture by Ann Beattie. Talk story about a sculpture by Richard Rew at the Tenth Avenue Bar. The Bar has been open for more than a year, and has acquired a loyal following. It's part gallery, part restaurant. Richard Rew had a show there a year ago. The current one is called "Sink A.O...

The Current Cinema TEXANS by Pauline Kael.

Annals of Zoology I-A MOODY GIANT by Emily Hahn. ANNALS OF ZOOLOGY about gorillas. The explorer Paul Du Chaillu (born in France; lived from 1835 to 1903) was probably the first white man ever to see these great apes. He tracked and shot them and brought home mounted specimens. In his books he emphasized the animals' ferocity. In the...

The Art World THE ART WORLD TATYANA GROSMAN by Calvin Tomkins. Tatyana Grosman, the founder of Universal Limited Art Editions and the woman who almost single-handedly raised printmaking from the level of a craft to the level of art, died on July 24th, 1982. Whole column devoted to the ideas behind ULAE, and to the artists who worked with Mrs...

The Talk of the Town Loophole by Susan Lardner. Talk story about writer's friend Janet, the I.R.S., and her accountant. She also tells about Antonio, who is back from Argentina and who lives in various apartments in her building while people are away. She says that the I.R.S. has gotten her life in order. Her accountant says she has...

Poetry California Hills in August by Dana Gioia. I can imagine someone who found...

Poetry Exmoor by Amy Clampitt. Lost aboard the roll of Kodac...

Poetry Shore by Philip Levine. We sat by the shore...