Profiles MOONBEAM MOSCOWITZ Popular Singer by Whitney Balliett.

The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Booing At The Opera by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about an interview over lunch with Schuyler Chapin, general manager of the Metropolitan Opera. He spoke about the recent menacing booing of performers and conductors at the Met. He became aware of it two years ago but was not worried because it was mainly directed at the conductors...

The Talk of the Town The Secretary by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden which celebrated its birth earlier this month with 3 formal openings--one attended by the Washington bigwigs, one for the international art community, & one for the Smithsonian Associates. Writer attended the second night & conversed with various international...

A Reporter in Washington A REPORTER IN WASHINGTON, D.C. II-SPRING AND SUMMER NOTES by Elizabeth Drew. Notes, in diary form, of events in Wash. from Apr. 4 to July 19, 1974. On Apr. 4 the House Judiciary Comm. opened the investigation as to whether grounds existed for impeachment of Pres. Nixon. Throughout this period, writer interviewed Rep. congressmen to get their views. On Apr. 11 the...

Fiction Fancy Flights by Ann Beattie. Michael spends most of his time smoking hash & getting high. He is separated from his wife Elsa & has been fired from his job at the factory. Michael used to smoke hash at work & concoct weird stories or "fancy flights" as his foreman called them, about how he...

The Talk of the Town T.K.O. by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Dempsey's Restaurant which was forced to go out of business last week. Ex-prizefighter Jack Dempsey has owned this restaurant since 1937. Dempsey's was located in the Brill Building on Broadway. The Brill is best known as the Tin Pan Alley Building. In the days when there...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Moore confers blase weightlessness on all his roles impartially. In "Gold," as in "Live and Let Die," he isn't a hero--he's just standing in for the hero, because nobody better could be found...

The Talk of the Town Button, Button by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about the creation of WIN (Whip Inflation Now) buttons by Al Hampel of the Benton & Bowles advertising agency. The country first heard about the buttons on Oct. 8th when Pres. Ford gave an anti-inflation address to Congress. Pres. Ford asked for help in organizing an all...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Horsemen, especially in the big stables had a feeling of deep disappointment and loss last week when news came from Miami that would probably be no racing at Hialeah Park this winter. Because of various financial problems-the track lost 3 million dollars last year-the stockholders voted to put...

Fiction Thirteen Unforgettable Days, Twelve Just As Rotten Nights by Gordon Cotler. Satirical short story in diary form about the recent trend toward holding major sporting events in distant places, e. g., the world chess championship match in Iceland and the upcoming world heavy-wieght bout in Zaire. Writer describes a fictional 14-day journey to the Republic of Voslymbuc to watch...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. Quotes Sen. John Tower's warning about a dim future for the U.S. should we fail to conquer inflation, & the warnings of Pres. Ford at the World Energy Conference & of Robert McNamara, of the World Bank. There is a striking dearth of ideas about what to do. A pattern...

Poetry Inventory by Jacques Prevert. One stone...

Poetry On the Mountain by W. S. Merwin. A wind at first light...