Profiles II-FROM RABUN GAP TO TYBEE LIGHT by E. J. Kahn. PROFILE of Georgia. Tells of the state's early history & some of the important men. Gold was discovered in 1828. Bountiful veins were in Indian territory. The state annexed this land & gave it away to whites. The Indians were paid 85 million for their land & sent to Okla...

Fiction After the Life Class by Norman Rush. George Lent, teacher of Problems in Philosophy at the Day Extension College, feels drawn to Errol Foy. Errol is a city fireman taking courses on his days off. He is not well liked. Although he is often the butt of jokes, Errol is never embarrassed. Watching Errol in his painting...

The Talk of the Town Mulatni by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about The Market--the new Citicorp Center shopping mall--which occupies three levels of lowrise building attached to the Citicorp office tower at Third Avenue and 54th. Writer mentions several restaurants in the mall: Hungaria, Richoux of London, an oyster-and-clam bar, a Greek restaurant, a Swiss...

Comment by Philip Hamburger. We have received a letter from a friend home in bed with a cold. He said the bed was a real mess: mountains of Kleenex, mountains of newspapers. He glanced at the papers, especially at stories about Cosmos 954, the Soviet nuclear-reactor satellite that blew a gasket and came...

Books by Howard Moss.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Current Cinema HE CURRENT CINEMA by Pauline Kael. Review of "Reynaldo & Clara", the Bob Dylan film...

Fiction The Other Day by Richard Rice. When a man's mother dies he looks up a funeral director, Mr. North, in the Yellow Pages. The funeral director arranges the wake as Mama's last circus with chimpanzee, dog, and cat acts. Mama makes her views known from the coffin: she would have preferred acrobats. The next day at...

U. S. Journal MONOPOLY AND HISTORY by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: BERKELEY, CAL. about the game of Monopoly. Ralph Anspach site in the Berkeley hills plotting against the General Mills Fun Group. Anspach's disagreement is with Parker Brothers, manufacturers of the game Monopoly, but General Mills swallowed Parker Brothers up into its Fun Group several years ago. A legal...

The Talk of the Town Screened by Mark Singer. Talk story about Al Verssen, owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers which is one of ten franchises in the Eastern Basketball Association. Harold Tonick, head coach of the Dodgers, tells the writer the EBA is "second chance heaven" for players who don't make it into the big leagues...

Fiction The Lincoln Relics by Stanley Kunitz. His innocence was to trust...

Puzzle The Puzzle by Anthony Taber. Cartoon story. Nude man, in the dark, stands on a floating piece of a puzzle. Gradually he puts the puzzle together and stands on an island. Light comes and he sees many other figures standing, like himself, on puzzle islands...

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. It is now clear that President Carter is unable to achieve his campaign aims. The budget will not be in balance by 1981, the bureaucracy is as ungainly as in 1976, he will have to settle for a seriously compromised energy package. Discusses the many other areas in which Carter...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Brumfield rode Hun Dusty Run when he won the Hialeah Challenge Cup Invitational...

Poetry Under Stars by Tess Gallagher. The sleep of this night deepens...

Poetry Vulcan by Mary Kinzie. The old mechanic at the service station...