U. S. Journal U.S. JOURNAL: BROOKLYN PICKING A JURY by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL about the experiences of Theodore Friedman, counsel for the plaintiff in a suit for damages, in choosing a jury in the case of the Estate of Phyllis Rosen v. Chrysler Motors Corp. and the Estate of Michael Miller. (The name of all individuals except Theodore Friedman have been...

A Reporter at Large THE RIVER WORLD by Berton Roueche. REPORTER AT LARGE about a towboat trip down the Missouri & Mississippi Rivers, from Kansas City to Baton Rouge. Tells about the freight haulage on towboats, & about the men who work on towboats. Writer talks to some of the men--crew members, mates, pilots, & captains--on the 3...

Fiction Before Fun City by Noel Perrin. We tend to think our present permissive society is new. Look back to a few years before the Reformation in England & you'll find the same freedom. This is prompted by reading a book published in London in 1530 - in the last five years of Catholic, or Merrie, England. Protestantism...

The Talk of the Town Warden by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about John Sparrow, the Warden of All Souls College, Oxford, who came here recently to deliver the opening address at an anniversary exhibition on John Donne at the Grolier Club. Tells about his interest in Donne and his own life & work...

Books by John Updike.

Fiction The Party by Donald Barthelme. I went to a party...significant variations elude me, vodka exhausts me, I was young once, essential services are being maintained. Drums, drums, drums, outside the windows... Giant hands, black, thick with fur, reaching in through the windows. Yes, it was King Kong, back in action, & all the guests...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. The N.Y. State Tax Commission has sent a bill for $4,000,000 to the New York State Off-Track Betting Commission for revenue lost last year as a result of the operations of the Off-Track Betting Corp. The Off-Track Betting Commission doesn't have a thin dime. Writer says he...

Fiction The Potato Baron and the Line by Stephen Tracy. In Santa Cruz, a group of students share a peeling gray mansion built around the turn of the century by a potato baron. There are 9 of them all together: political science majors, biology majors, members of the university chorus, girls who bake break, & boys who do photography. The...

The Talk of the Town Embattled by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about press conference called by Rep. Bella Abzug to protest the possibility that she will lose her congressional seat due to redistricting. N.Y.C. has to lose 2 members of congress this year, having lost some of its population in the last census...

Comment by Donald Barthelme. Last week a wan & scruffy dragon came to the city looking for a disease. He had in mind ending his life He decided to enroll himself in a hospital. At St. Valentine's he asked the way to the No Hope Ward. There he climbed into a bed. When a...

Musical Events by Ellen Willis.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town At the Mercer Arts Center by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the Mercer Arts Center, which has been carved out of what used to be the Broadway Central Hotel (now the Hotel University) on Mercer St., near West Third. It involves several theatres & a workshop, a bar, a boutique, an acting school, & a cabaret theatre...

Poetry The Watcher by Jorge Luis Borges. The light comes in and I awake. There he is...

Poetry Chekhov by Howard Moss. We have the whole evening ahead of us...