Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Howard Moss.

The Sporting Scene COACH by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about professional football, and in particular, about two coaches. One was John Ralston of the Denver Broncos. The Denver Broncos are the least well-known team in the N.F.L. They were established in 1960 as a member of the A.F.L. and until 1973, their 4th year in...

Easel Elphenor and Weasel by Sylvia Townsend Warner. Elphenor, a fairy from the Elfin Court of Zuy, was sailing on a ship when a storm caused a wreck. When Elphenor finally fell to earth a man named Master Elisha Balckbone found him. Balckbone was a quack in medicine, necromancy, divination, and procuring. Elphenor who loved the mortal world...

A Reporter at Large SUCCESSORS by John Hersey. REPORTER AT LARGE about interviews with middle-class Israeli families, where parents, many of them ghetto fighters in World War II, had survived the Holocaust in Poland and made a new life in Israel. Interview with Israeli payshoanalyst who had made studies of Holocaust survivors and their families. Tells some...

The Theatre WINTER IN ARDEN by Brendan Gill.

Fiction The Whore of Mensa by Woody Allen. Humorous piece about a call-girl racket in which young brainy women engage in intellectual intercourse rather than physical. The story opens with Word Babcock asking help from private detective Kaiser Lupowitz. Word, who is married, seeks out women who for a price will discuss any subject--Proust, Yeats and...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Entire NOTES & COMMENT & TALK OF THE TOWN concerning the writer's visit to France; his impressions, & interviews with knowledgeable persons. About two months ago Pres. Valery Giscard d'Estaing of France announced "The world is unhappy. It is unhappy because it does not know where it is going &...

Poetry Heading For Nandi by John Updike. Out of Honolulu...

Poetry The Estuary by W. S. Merwin. By day we pace the many decks...