The Art World (The Art Galleries) Outrageously Unique by Harold Rosenberg.

Books Great Expectations by Naomi Bliven.

The Talk of the Town Smashing by Wallace White. Talk story about Princess Grace of Monaco christening the new Cunard Princess, a luxury liner that will make weekly runs between New York and Bermuda until November, when she will shift her home base to Port Everglades, Florida. Princess Grace smashed a bottle of Ritz Brut 1971 against the hull...

Musical Events All About Alice by Andrew Porter.

The Theatre Timor Mortis by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town You Never Know by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the writer's recent visit to San Francisco, during which he bought a Japanese folding-bed, a 4" thick foam mattress in 3 sections called a shikibuton. Writer bought the bed from a store called the Golden Nagas, and the beds are made by students of the guru...

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. The Pres. and Sec. of State Vance were unprepared for the rebuff that Vance received in Moscow. But few others in Wash. expected anything else. The American proposals were different in kind from any that preceded them, & the manner in which the Pres. presented them in advance was a...

Fiction Black Holes by James Munves. Parody of the phenomenon, found in physics, of black holes, which suck in all existing light. Various scientists are talking about them. Tells about the home uses of black holes...

Fiction The Kindness of Strangers by Laura Furman. Edward found May on the last cold day of winter in a neighborhood bar on the West Side. He was feeling ill and she suggested he go back to her apartment. There she took care of him, putting him to bed. He slept until the next afternoon, after a restless...

U. S. Journal FOUR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT LUNCH AT THE UNIVERSITY CLUB by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: TAMPA, FLORIDA about discrimination against women at the University Club, in Tampa. The club does not allow women at lunch during the week. Betty Castor, in 1974, then a city planning commissioner was asked to leave a luncheon at the University Club. Tells about Betty Castor, now a...

Profiles The Elder Daughter~I by Anthony Bailey. PROFILE of Queen Elizabeth II, 63rd monarch of the British line. She ascended the throne when she was 25 and is a member of the oldest reigning royal house in Europe. Tells about Buckingham Palace, where the Queen lives and works. Tells about her duties as head of state: the...

The Race Track Red Rum by Twenty-five Lengths by G. F. T. Ryall. Red Rum, owned by Noel Le Mare, won the Grand National Steeplechase, one of England's and the world's great races, for the third time...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

The Current Cinema Gold by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Aguirre, the Wrath of God", by Werner Herzog, a German filmmaker of 34, who also wrote the script...

Television Comment by Veronica Geng. After seeing some of the television coverage of the terrible airplane crash on Tenerife last week, we turned to an early chapter in a novel we were reading - Walker Percy's "Lancelot". The lines we were looking for were: "The only emotion people feel nowadays is interest or the lack of...

The Talk of the Town Echoes at the Frick by Kennedy Fraser. Talk story about a display of flowering plants at the Frick Collection. It was mounted jointly by the museum and the N.Y. Botanical Garden, and lasted from Wednesday to Sunday. Writer talked with the museum's gardener, Galen Lee, whose previous job was growing orchids at the Botanical Garden. Orchids dominated...

Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes. Soon the fate of Mentmore Towers, the seat of the Rosebery family, in Buckinghamshire, will be known. It is a struggle to hang on to a historic house in the teeth of rising inflation & taxation. This mid-Victorian, magnificent mansion was commissioned by Baron Meyer de Rothschild, the merchant...

Poetry Above the Tobacco Fields of South Deerfield, Massachusetts by Pamela Stewart. This is only a small mountain, under...

Poetry Inventing The Third Person by Debora Greger. Evening: the lights of cars...

Poetry Fantasy Street by Andrew Glaze. Feeling all at once imprisoned, I stalk for the door...