The Sporting Scene WIMBLEDON AND FLUSHING MEADOW by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about Wimbledon and the 1984 U.S. Open. Both were won by John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova. The first week of Wimbledon offered few surprises. Most of the interest by the press was centered on the players' personal lives and conflicts. Monday of the second week, however, had...

Fiction A Walk To The Jetty by Jamaica Kincaid. Story narrated by Annie John; she is 17 years old, and is leaving Antigua to go to England and become a nurse. She is planning never to return to Antigua. She lies in bed the night before her departure and thinks back over her life & her increasingly distant relationship...

Around City Hall AROUND CITY HALL NEVER OUT OF DATE by Andy Logan. Voters sometimes tend to go with what they already know. Speaker of the House, Thomas(Tip)O'Neill will be elected to his 17th term this month&13 out of N.Y. City's 14 House Members who are running for reelection stress their incumbent status. Koch says he plans on staying...

The Talk of the Town Seifert by Nancy Holyoke. Talk story about a visit with writer's friend Edward, who was partially responsible for the first translation of the poetry of Jaroslav Seifert--the Czech poet who just won the Nobel Prize in Literature--into English. While visiting Prague in '67, Edward was shown around the city by Irena, a...

Annals of Law THE SULLIVAN by Anthony Lewis. ANNALS OF LAW about the libel case, New York Times Co. vs. Sullivan. It began with an advertisement in the Times on March 29, 1960: a full page headed "HEED THEIR RISING VOICES." It sought support for the civil-rights movement in the South and for Dr. Martin Luther King...

Comment by William Wertenbaker. One of the less attractive aspects of the American invasion of Grenada last year was the exclusion of all reporters from the operation. Americans knew little of the actual invasion except what the Administration and its military men chose to tell. Now the Administration has announced a proposed plan for...

The Theatre ALONE by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Presentation by Kennedy Fraser. Talk story about a presentation by two members of a rock group called Avalon Boulevarde. Arthur Mason and John Christopher are members of the San Francisco rock band whose other members are Mr. Mason's two brothers. They called on the writer in her office, gave her an information kit and...

Books by John Updike.

Poetry White Birds by Sidney Wade. A million birds fret in the damp trees...

Poetry New England, Autumn by Norman Dubie. Our daughter dreamt of magnolias--/That one mammal among...

Poetry Building the Fence by James Ulmer. We went out in the cold/to stake out ground/to encircle goldenrod and our twisted...