Books by Naomi Bliven.

Comment by Anthony Hiss. Interview with Ernest M. Frimbo, the world's leading railroad buff. Writer went from Harrisburg, Pa. with Frimbo on an excursion train pulled by a steam engine. The excursion was sponsored by the High Iron Company, of Lebanon, New Jersey. The company is run by a commodities broker named Ross E...

Reflections REFLECTIONS THE GREENING OF AMERICA by Charles A. Reich. REFLECTIONS about U.S. society & its new generation. There is a revolution under way--not like revolutions of the past. This is the revolution of the new generation. It has originated with the individual & with culture, & if it succeeds it will change the political structure only as its...

The Theatre THE MILITARY MIND by Brendan Gill.

Letter from Washington by Richard H. Rovere. There was a time when sovereigns travelled either for relaxation or to conduct important negotiations. Now it is for publicity, though in Golda Meir's case only partly. Her recent talks with Pres. Nixon were partly to strengthen her hand in Israel. Apparently her talks changed neither government's position. Washington was...

The Talk of the Town Bureaucrat by Philip Hamburger. A Washington friend reports that he was leafing through the Department of State phone directory when, under Agency for International Development (AID), he came across a listing for Associate Assistant Administrator in the Office of Assistant Administrator for Administration...

The Talk of the Town Bike To Work by Hendrik Hertzberg. Talk story about a group bicycle ride organized by the Bike For A Better City group. About a thousand cyclists gathered last Wednesday to kick off the groups' campaign for bike lanes on major thoroughfares in Manhattan. During the morning rush hours, the group rode from 60th Street to Battery...

Fiction A Film by Donald Barthelme. Story about the making of a film and the kidnapping of the child star. Writer tells the story of the film and the story of the kidnapped child simultaneously, and a murdered doll is involved in both situations...

The Current Cinema Buster Keaton by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of the Elgin Festival at the Elgin Theatre, where Keaton films are being shown. All ten of his full-length features and a lot of his rare two-reelers are included. Writer tells about this actor's work and about an interview she had with him in 1966, when he...

Fiction Fat Girl by Brendan Gill. Story about Jeanne, a girl who is murdered by her lover, with whom she lives. Another man who was with her at the time ran to get help & so may have escaped being murdered himself. Her "fate was in every way characteristic of her; she died as she did...

The Talk of the Town Rules by Philip Hamburger. A recent guest at the leading hotel in Iguassu Falls, Brazil, closed the door to his room and was delighted to find dangling from the inside knob a sign reading, "Do Not Perturb." This led him to make a close scrutiny of the Rules of the House, printed on a...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. For the past 3 years Elliott Burch has saddled Paul Mellon's Fort Marcy for the United Nations Handicap at Atlantic City & each time the horse finished third. This year he won by five lengths...

The Talk of the Town Hoopla by Susan Lardner. Talk story about election campaign of Sen. Charles Goodell, Republican-Liberal candidate, & use of "hoopla" in his campaign. On Sept. 12 report in the "Times" quoted Sen. Goodell as saying, "Within the next ten days we'll go through the hoopla." Gives definition of hoopla by William Safire, Nixon Administration...

Books by Naomi Bliven.

Poetry Organ Transplant by J. D. Reed. I drank...

Poetry A Celebration For Autumn by Ted Walker. Once more I welcome a purer darkness...

Poetry Dayspring by Hawley Truax. Upon an Appian, after happier Ways...