The Theatre Happy Birthday by Edith Oliver.

Fiction Our Work And Why We Do It by Donald Barthelme. A pressman solicitously watches the small steam-engine like motions of a matchbook-cover press in operation. Although there are other presses, everybody is fond of this one. In addition to printing matchbook-covers they print Colombian currency, the Acts of the Apostles, the laws of the land and fingerprints...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) The Big Show: Art and the Crowd by Harold Rosenberg.

The Talk of the Town Tenors by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about a conversation with Schuyler Chapin, acting general manager of the Metropolitan Opera House on the scarcity of tenors in the opera world. Tells about Chapin's childhood intoxication with Melchior and Flagstad. Chapin said Melchior never gave a bad performance even when he was bored or his acting...

The Talk of the Town The Host and the Guests by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a recent journey undertaken by Ernest M. Frimbo, world's leading railway buff and our dear friend. Mr. Frimbo told about his trip over English turbot in the Madison Room of the Princeton Club. It began because he had not been feeling well and his doctor advised him...

Musical Events The Nureyev Version by Andrew Porter.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. The cracking of the Watergate case illumines & reaffirms the greatness of the American form of govt. The slow unfolding has been a gruelling course of study, in which we have been shown again, as in a high-school civics course, why we are a republic, & why we must...

The Current Cinema Fads by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of Alan J. Pakula's latest comedy "Lov and Pain and the Whole Damn Thing". His earlier work included "The Sterile Cuckoo" and "Klute...

Annals of Diplomacy SALT I-THE LABYRINTH by John Newhouse. ANNALS OF DIPLOMACY about the SALT talks between the U.S. and Russia to limit nuclear arms. Long discussion of the weapons of both countries & various points of view of overall picture. As far as the U.S. is concerned there is an organizational battle which pits the State Dept. and...

The Talk of the Town Mound by James Stevenson. Talk story about taking a walk on the beach the Sunday afternoon before Easter and discovering an unusual sand mound. It was sculpted into an amazing game with small roadways going around and tunnels, ramps & exits. Writer wondered who had made it and how long it had taken. Writer...

The Race Track Secretariat? by G. F. T. Ryall. Joe Kellman is the owner of Shecky Greene...

A Reporter at Large SKYLAB by Henry S. F. Cooper. REPORTER AT LARGE about the Skylab, a space station which will be launched later this month from Cape Kennedy. Tells about some of the investigations & experiments the astronauts will conduct. One will have to do with the physiological effects of weightlessness. Assessing man's suitability for spending long periods in...

On and Off the Avenue This & That by Kennedy Fraser.

U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA SERGEI KOURDAKOV by Calvin Trillin. US JOURNAL about Sergei Kourdakov, who having defected, from Russia, joined a Glendale, Cal., religious group, Underground Evangelism, & accidentally shot himself to death on New Year's Eve. He had been a model young Communist & Soviet naval cadet & had led raids on underground churches in the region of...

Fiction Love Day,1945 by L. E. Sissman. A poem divided into 4 sections: I. Minus One; II. L-Day; III. Plus Five; IV. Plus Thirty-Seven with each of these divided into sub-sections titled with the names of the persons involved. Poem is preceded by a quotation from a poem by Anthony Hecht. Sissman's poem tells...