Fiction Who's Who In The Cast by Marshall Brickman. Parody of theatre Playbill's Who's Who in the cast. Writer gives parodies of biographical notes for 6 actors, the director, producer, author, and set and lighting designer. The actors are Anthony Monn, Mishru Fek, Mary Beth Numkins, Ramon Peligroso, Lydia Bunting, Rene Catafalque, O'Bob Macvout was the director, Arnold Batfish...

U. S. Journal GOLDBERG AS ARTIFACT by Calvin Trillin. U.S. JOURNAL: SECOND AVENUE about Larry Goldberg, the operator of Goldberg's Pizzeria on 53rd Street and Second Avenue. He serves pizza with names like "Moody Mushrooms" and "Bouncy Meatballs" and "SMOG" (sausage, mushrooms, onions, and green peppers). The original neon sign from the Pizzeria is part of an "ethnic neon...

Dancing Isadora Live by Arlene Croce.

The Race Track One for Rokeby by G. F. T. Ryall. Jack Dreyfus, who has done more to keep racing in New York on an even keel financially than anyone else since August Belmong resigned the chairmanship of the board of the N.Y. Racing Association last week The reason was the pressure of other interests, most notably the Dreyfus Medical Foundation...

Fiction A Long Story Short by Shirley Hazzard. In the late nineteen-sixties, Christian Thrale, a 38 year-old Foreign Service official, living in London, has an affair with his temporary secretary, Cordelia Ware. His wife of nine years, Grace, has taken the children to Winchester for a vacation. Christian is rising in his profession, and his marriage...

The Sporting Scene ONE OF THE GREAT OPENS by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about the 1976 U.S. Open, which was held at the Atlanta Athletic Club golf courses, in Duluth, Georgia, along the Chattahoochee River, about 20 miles northeast of the center of Atlanta. Tells how the A.A.C. built the courses during the 60's to replace the East Lake...

The Current Cinema The Inseperables by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "My Friends". Pietro Germi wrote this film with three aides, planned it in great detail, and shot a week of it before his death in December, 1974. Mario Monicelli took over the direction in Germi's spirit...

Comment by Anthony Hiss. Comment giving an overall view of the Democratic National Convention. Eighteen thousand well-behaved people wearing tags of 22 different colors around their necks spent 4 days at Madison Square Garden. The convention was the first in New York City in 52 years. They nominated Jimmy Carter and Walter (Fritz...

A Reporter at Large HANDGUNS by Richard Harris. A REPORTER AT LARGE about the National Council to Control Handguns -- established in January, 1974, thus setting up the first national handgun-control lobby in Washington. Writer talks to the N.C.C.H.'s present director, Nelson T. Shields III who was motivated to work for gun control when his son was...

Books Particular Memories by Robert Coles.

Letter from the Garden by Richard H. Rovere. Tells about the Democratic National Convention, which nominated Jimmy Carter for President. He chose Sen. Walter Mondale to run with him as Vice-President. No major-party convention in memory has been such a model of smooth, efficient organization. And it marked the emergence of new political styles and leadership...

Poetry Period Piece by Henri Coulette. Whatever number she plays, she of the gray...

Poetry Four Poems by Carlos Drummond De Andrade. Song Of The Phantom Girl Of Belo Horizonte Song For A Young...