Books The Last Victorian by Alistair Cooke.

The Talk of the Town Hoboken Terminal by James Stevenson. Illustrated talk story about two visits to the Hoboken Terminal, once to look at it and another day to see an exhibition and auction. The Terminal is a magnfiicent Beaux-Arts railroad station and ferry landing. It was designed by Kenneth Murchison and built in 1907, and it featured a...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL LIFT EVERY VOICE by Andy Logan. Harlem city councilman and chairman of the council's Black and Puerto Rican Caucus Fred Samuel asked Koch to meet with minority leaders to investigate the problem of police brutality against blacks. In the past Samuel has been much more conciliatory to Koch, which shows how far the problem has gone...

The Sporting Scene FORZA, ITALIA! by William Murray. THE SPORTING SCENE about this year's running of the Italian Derby at Le Capannelle, Rome's thoroughbred race track. It was held the day after the Kentucky Derby. There were only three foreign colts among the eleven three-year-old thoroughbreds entered in the 100th running of the Derby. None of...

Fiction A Recollection by Mavis Gallant. The writer married Magdalena in Paris (where he now is) more than forty years ago. It was at the time when anti-Jewish thoughts and feelings had suddenly hardened into laws, and she had to be protected. She was a devout Catholic convert, but she was also Jewish and foreign...

Personal History I-LEARNING by Ved Mehta. PERSONAL HISTORY of a period in 1946 when the writer was twelve and lived with his family in Lahore, India. Though blind, his siblings took him along to the movies sometimes. He remembers, especially, "Zeenat," a picture in Urdu, featuring the Muslim actress Baby Noor Jehan. He saw it six...

The Talk of the Town Brig o' Turk by Israel Shenker. Talk story about a recently published book about the village of Brig o'Turk in Scotland, where a friend who used to live in New York now lives. He said there are about 25 houses in the town and hardly twice that many people. They are in the heart of the...

Comment by William McKibben. Because there are people who don't get food stamps, or don't get enough, the Food for Survival Bank has recently opened a warehouse at Hunts Point Market, where it will distribute free food donated by companies that have overruns, and who receive tax breaks for doing so. Kathy Goldman, who...

Fiction Buckwood Falls (Illus.) by Charles Saxon. Seven drawings with captions which tell how the writer returned to vist Buckwood Falls, where he found it was just as he remembered it. Little had changed since he first walked the streets and heard the kick-step music born in Buckwood Falls so many years ago. He tells about...

The Current Cinema FRAMED by Pauline Kael.

Poetry Connections in a Field by Alex Stevens. O.K. so the heart breaks. What fills the gap...

Poetry My Dream By Henry James by Michael Ryan. In my dream by Henry James there is a sentence...