The Talk of the Town Purple Passage by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about Deep Purple, the English hard-rock group, & Starship I, a jet plane rented to entertainers. Writer rode to Newark Airport, with Garry George, who described the success of Deep Purple. Last year they sold 12 million album units. In 1968, they had their big single, 'Hush...

Fiction Long Distance by Penelope Mortimer. Section One A woman at a sanatorium for mental patients tells her story. Upon her arrival she is met by Mrs. April, the "transit-officer," who leads her to her room & tells her about the place, where she will be relieved of pressures and be totally free - within limits...

Reflections NIXON AND LINCOLN by Richard Harris. REFLECTIONS about the differences between President Nixon & President Lincoln. Quotes from a speech Nixon gave on the 165th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, wherein he seemed to compare his current ordeal to President Lincoln's ordeal during the Civil War, and, possibly, to suggest that history may compare the two men...

Comment by Peter Lubin. Comment about what might happen if a rich Westerner bought the city of Leningrad. One possibility would be that the Tolstoy Farm would trade the outskirts of New York for the outskirts of St. Petersburg (Leningrad's name would be changed back to St. Petersburg...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about the large amount of money owed in back taxes by Pres. Nixon. Wilber D. Mills thinks that it will go further than anything else we've learned recently for ce the President from office. The people understand taxes, he says. They are preparing their own returns at the moment...

The Talk of the Town Boyle Stories by Calvin Trillin. Talk story about a retirement party given for Hal Boyle, sixty-three year old columnist for the Associated Press. The party was given by A. P. only three days before Mr. Boyle died of a heart attack. Pat Moriarty, owner of Moriarty's bar, which Mr. Boyle used to frequent, was...

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Attica", an aching, precise study of the days between the 9th and 13th of Sept., 1971, in a New York State prison, which ended in a massacre. The film was produced, directed, and edited by Cinda Firestone...

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Sporting Scene LE POIDS SUB LE SKI AVAL by Jeremy Bernstein. THE SPORTING SCENE about skiing. After twenty years or so writer, a mountain climber, decides to take up skiing. Tells of recollections about initially learning to ski in New Hampshire in the 1930's and the Arlberg technique of skiing commonly used at that time. Discusses the rapid innovations in...

The Race Track THE RACE TRACK. by G. F. T. Ryall. Col. Martingale will take 7-10 that the Kentucky Derby will be split, even though nobody wants it to be... Right now there are more than thirty really probable starters - enough to fill the starting gates at Churchill Downs twice over, with extras...

The Talk of the Town Decorative Values by Ian Frazier. Talk story about the free art-appraisal clinic at Sotheby Parke Bernet last week. The place was mobbed. Writer watched Roxana Alger, a Parke Bernet expert on American art, appraise framed prints of Washington & Lincoln, and an American-Canadian painting. She said they were only of decorative value, and...

The Talk of the Town Trial by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about the John Mitchell-Maurice Stanstril now in its. 8th week at Foley Square. It is the first case of political bribery involving Cabinet officers since the Harding Administration. Since many of the same people-and some of the same taped evidenc-are involved in Watergate cases both...

Musical Events by David Hamilton.

Books by George Steiner.

Poetry The Sandpipers by David Posner. I count nineteen pairs of legs on roller skates, thirty-eight...

Poetry Unwinding The Glacier by Ann Stanford. Not for one moment does this scowler stop...