The Talk of the Town Daytime Drama by David McClelland. Talk story about taping of the last episode of daytime drama (or soap opera) "How To Survive A Marriage" at NBC Studio 8-G in RCA Building. Soap operas come up for renewal every 13 weeks and despite attempts to bolster sagging ratings by changing time slots and by bringing...

The Talk of the Town The Hustle by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about The Hustle, the new fast dance that people do together, and the writer's friend, Anthony Coleman, who has been Hustling for over a yr. Tells about the step. Records you can Hustle to include: "Ease On Down the Road," by Consumer Rapport, from the Broadway musical "The...

Fiction Gone Fission by Ralph Schoenstein. A satirical piece presented as instructions in a science magazine for constructing an atomic device for the monthly Junior Science project. The rotobrush, the original project idea, was rejected because public health authorities hadn't given final approval to the brush. It is not difficult to construct an atomic device. but...

Around City Hall A Million Laughs by Andy Logan. Peverse local developments are discussed. A cast-iron front building was declared a landmark. It had to be disassembled at great cost & the pieces were stored. A federal grant was to pay for its reconstitution as a historical monument. Some of the pieces were stolen & sold as scrap...

The Talk of the Town Claridge House II by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about writer's visit to Claridge House II, a luxury apartment building in Verona, N.J. located on the summit of First Mountain. Writer was motivated to see Claridge House II, after having read an ad in the real-estate section of the N.Y. "Times" which used superlatives to describe...

The Current Cinema Light-Years Ahead of the Cuckoo Clock by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of the Swiss film "The Invitation", directed by Claude Goretta, who wrote the screenplay with Michel Viala. Writer discusses the new Swiss school of cinema. This includes: Alain Tanner's "La Salamandre" (1972), "Charles Dead or Alive" (1972); and "Le Retour d'Afrique" (1973), and his new "The Middle of the...

Profiles VIDEO VISIONARY by Calvin Tomkins. PROFILE of Nam June Paik, 43, a pioneer in video art, who is now an artist-in-residence at WNET'S Television Laboratory & a consultant on TV to the Rockefeller Foundation. His studio is on Mercer St., in Soho, N.Y.C. Outlines Paik's career in video art; his 1963 exhibition at...

Musical Events Three Halls, Three Sopranos by Andrew Porter.

The Air (On Television) The Road from Highway 1 by Michael J. Arlen.

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Comment about confusion about who the enemy had been in the long Vietnamese war, moving toward its end. To Americans remaining in Saigon, the principal threat, it seemed came not from the N. Vietnamese but from the South Vietnamese, America's ally. Drew Middleton, the military-affairs analyst for the "Times...

The Race Track Derby Time by G. F. T. Ryall. Master Derby won the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland. He was bred by Mrs. Robert Lehmann, who took over the Golden Chance Farm, in Kentucky, and its racing stable after the death of her husband...

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Sunday Baseball by Lillian Ross. Talk story about a baseball doubleheader last Sunday at Shea Stadium between the NY Mets and the Chicago Cuba. It was a cold and windy day; general admission seats were less than half filled, mezzanine and boxes were packed. Four foul balls fell into the catcher's mitt held by a...

Dancing Hard Work by Arlene Croce.

The Sporting Scene COURSES AND CHAMPIONS by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about golf courses and the annual Master Golf Tournament, played at the Augusta National Golf Club. This year's tournament was won by Jack Nicklaus. Earlier writer tells of a visit to the superb Trophy Club golf courses, situated about halfway betwen downtown Fort Worth and downtown Dallas...

Books Intercom by Naomi Bliven.

Fiction The Lists of the Past-VI by Julie Hayden. The story is an accumulation of impressions generated by the death of Mr. Holcomb. The writer juxtaposes the tragically final separation of Body and Soul with the mundane concerns of the man's survivors. It begins with a description of the man's death in a hospital room as an actual separation...

Poetry The Beckett Kit by Linda Gregg. I finally found a way of using the tree...

Poetry In Limbo by Richard Wilbur. What rattles in the dark? The blinds at Brewater...