The Theatre L' AMOUR FRANCAIS by Edith Oliver.

Fiction Fossil News by James Stevenson. Illustrated short story that begins with a quote from The New York Times which stated "when the discovery of the provocative 'black skull' was announced Last summer... everyone agreed that the skull was the most significant early humanlike fossil to be found in more than a decade. Everyone agreed it...

Books by Veronica Geng.

Comment by Elizabeth Macklin. Comment about the Italian writer and chemist, Primo Levi, who died last month at the age of 67. Tells about his work, including quotes from two of his books, "The Periodic Table," and "Survival in Auschwitz." "The authorities said they were treating the death as a suicide," the Times reported...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Talk of the Town Moms by Nancy Ramsey. A talk story about the Ninth Annual Outstanding Mothers Award Presentation Luncheon at the Sheraton Centre... Brigitte Gerney, the mother of two who was injured in 1985 by a toppling crane, said that she had just been bicycling with her children & that she had survived the accident in large...

The Talk of the Town Draft Day by Adam Gopnik. Talk story about watching the N.F.L. draft for this year which took place in the Broadway Ballroom of the Marriott Marquis...

Fiction A Trinity by William Trevor. Keith and Dawne's first holiday since their honeymoon was paid for by the elderly man they both called Uncle. In fact he was related to neither of them; for eleven years he had been Dawne's employer, but the relationship was truly that of benefactor and dependents. They lived with him...

Our Local Correspondents COBLE AND TENK by E. J. Kahn. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about the 10th annual Stamford Marriott Crossword Puzzle Tournament, which had 118 contestants from coast to coast vying for cash & glory. The Stamford affair is generally recognized in crossword-puzzledom as one of the nation's two major events of its kind, the other being the U.S...

The Talk of the Town Spring Walk by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about taking a walk on Fifth Avenue. One recent sunny, cloudless spring day--a day of a kind fairly rare this year--we took a walk on 5th Ave.: west side of the street from 43rd to 57th, east side back down. Here are some of the things...

Profiles THE RIVERKEEPER by Alec Wilkinson. A PROFILE of riverkeeper John Cronin, who works for the Hudson River Fishermen's Association, patrolling the river in search of polluters... Cronin said, "I fell under the influence of a man named Bob Gabrielson, a commercial fisherman in Nyack. It was extremely important for me that I met him when...

Personal History AT THE GATES OF CALIFORNIA by Ved Mehta. PERSONAL HISTORY about writer's stay in Los Angeles, with his father, and their efforts to obtain scholarship money for his college education. It was 1952, he was 18, a blind Indian student, who had just graduated from high school in Arkansas. His father was a doctor who had worked in...

Poetry Indistinguishable from the Darkness by Charlie Smith. The dark under the trees is filled with lightning bugs, and because...

Poetry Strike by Linda Bierds. First the salt was removed...