Fiction Scram! You Made the Pants Too Short by S. J. Perelman. In Victoria Glendinning's review, in "The Times Literary Supplement," of "Lady Ottoline's Album," photographs of the Bloomsbury group, she mentions that E.M. Forster's pants were too short. The writer sets out to find the pants in question and to establish that they were not too short. He follows a trail...

The Race Track Belmont Finale by G. F. T. Ryall. Laz Barrera trains Affirmed for the Harbor View Farm...

Fiction Osage Orange by Arturo Vivante. The narrator, a professor who lives with his wife and children on the coast of New England, is giving a lecture series at a university a thousand miles from his home. In his loneliness, he calls his wife but he still feels distant. He eats at a restaurant, popular with...

Musical Events The Right Subjects by Andrew Porter.

Annals of Crime A PRISON AND A PRISONER I-MAXIMUM SECURITY by Susan Sheehan. ANNALS OF CRIME about Green Haven prison & Geo. Malinow (pseud.), one of the prisoners. The prison, in Dutchess County, 80 miles north of N.Y.C. is one of 5 maximum security prisons in the state. It opened in 1949, is the newest & supposedly the most innovative. It went thru...

The Art World (The Art Galleries) American Surrealist by Harold Rosenberg.

The Theatre Fear of Women by Brendan Gill.

Fiction The Crisis by Donald Barthelme. Parody of a written description of a rebellion. The description is dedicated "To Clementine," tells what parts of the city the rebels have captured, what they wear, etc. Writer loves, or loved Clementine, who is thought to be one of the rebellion's great leaders. Tells how the rebellion failed, but...

Books The Giant Who Isn't There by John Updike.

The Talk of the Town Bipedal Party by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a pre-publication party for a new monthly magazine about the human sciences, "Human Nature." Dr. Robert Ornstein is the director of the magazine, and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich is spending 4 million dollars to develop it. The magazine will be written by scientists close to the most...

The Current Cinema Goodbar, or How Nice Girls Go Wrong by Pauline Kael. Review of "Looking for Mr. Goodbar", directed by & screenplay by Richard Brooks...

The Talk of the Town The Cards by Mark Singer. Talk story about "The Gin Game", a new play by D.L. Coburn, performed by real-life husband and wife Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy. Mike Nichols directed There is a discussion of the difficulties involved in playing 14 hands of gin rummy throughout the play...

Comment by Donald Barthelme. A friend writes: I have lately noticed that Con Edison is being very nice to me... A couple of months ago, I found, skittering in nervous computer printout, across the bottom of my bill, the words, "THANK YOU VER MUCH FOR YOUR PROMPT PAYMENT." ...Con Ed had never thanked me...

The Talk of the Town Blast by Fred C. Shapiro. Talk story about a bomb explosion outside the 5th Ave. entrance of the New York Public Library. Credit for the bombing has been claimed by the Puerto Rican terrorist group, Fuerzas Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, or the F.A.L.N. Writer spoke with Ernest Castiglione, a 26 year old who had been...

Poetry The Gift by Philip Levine. Wheat fields the wind praised...

Poetry Color -Peak Weekend by Douglas Crase. Things have moved closer together again. Every red...

Poetry Notes from Greece (The Reliquary of Mt. Athos) by Richard Kenney. Bells began, the courtyard cool as alcohol...