The Talk of the Town Bartram's Garden by R. C. Smith. On the day after writer's 48th birthday, the writer paid a visit to Bartram's Garden-"America's Oldest Surviving Botanical Garden & First Commercial Nursery," according to the sign at the entrance. To get there from writer's house, you journey to Philadelphia's Fairmount Park system. Bartram's Garden is what remains of...

Letter from Washington by Elizabeth Drew. Albert Gore, who has run a distant third at best, in every contest since Mar. 8th("Super Tuesday")is seen not as an option but as an obstacle in the path of getting the thing wrapped up as soon as possible... Some Jews in New York could go for Jackson...

Fiction Meeting Famous People by Garrison Keillor. Humorous short story about the trial of a famous singer after he assaulted a fan & his subsequent turn of bad luck, plus a section advising how to approach famous people. When Big Tim Bowers turned to his left & saw the little guy with the battered guitar case emerge...

The Talk of the Town A Brief History by Gerald Jonas. Talk story about Professor Stephen Hawking... Hawking, a cosmologist, holds the professorship at Cambridge University that Isaac Newton once held & he is in the forefront of the attempt by physicists to formulate a "grand unified theory" accounting for all the forces that govern our universe... There are perhaps 30...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Jazz by Whitney Balliett.

Profiles FEEDING THE RAT by A. Alvarez. PROFILE of Mo Anthoine, 48, a mountain climber who lives in Nant Peris, Wales. He and his wife, Jacqueline Phillippe, own and operate Snowdon Mouldings, a business which produces Joe Brown safety helmets as well as other paraphenalia related to outdoor sports. Snowdon Mouldings is located in Llanberis a small...

Comment by Noelle Oxenhandler. A woman we know writes: For years I wondered why the word "pudding"has always exerted such power over me. If I as much as faintly overhear the word, I'm destined to eat pudding within 3 days...some time ago, under the most unlikely circumstances, I discovered the reason. I...

Books by Alistair Cooke.

Fiction Avid by John Casey. Story about a woman who returns to her parents' house on Narragansett Bay, in SE RI & about 3 men in her life... When Lucy Potter came back for the 3rd time to her parents' house on Pettaquamscutt Neck, she spent hours in her old room, at her old desk...

The Talk of the Town Dirty Dancing by Holly Brubach. Talk story about learning to dance the way they danced in the movie “Dirty Dancing”... We registerd for a course in Dirty Dancing, which was taught by Heather Lea Gerdes, one of the dancers in the movie, on 2 recent evenings at the Radio City Rehearsal Studio. When...

Poetry A Woman and a Man, Ice Fishing by Lee Rudolph. She: cuts a disk of ice from his skull...

Poetry Alders by Amy Clampitt. The roadway's sallow, puddled furrow...