Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by Brendan Gill.

Comment by Lawrence Weschler. On Dec. 6, 1967, near Phuoc-Lac in S. Vietnam, a US Army company on a search-and-destroy mission came under sudden withering enemy fire. Tells about the heroic actions of the company's young Catholic chaplain, Capt. Angelo (Charlie) Liteky. Later he was awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor...

The Talk of the Town Commerce by William McKibben. Talk story about three trade shows; Chinatown's first department store, Pearl River Mart; and, a luncheon with Hardy Amies, dressmaker to the Queen of England; and writer's concern over the nature of commercial activity... Chinatown's first Department store, Pearl River Mart, opened earlier this year, on the corner of Canal...

The Talk of the Town Schooners by Charles McGrath. Talk story about the annual Mayor's Cup schooner race in N.Y. harbor. It is the twentieth anniversary. Victoria was one of the two boats there that were designed by John Cherubini. The boat, Brilliant, led the others all the way around, followed by the Cherubini boats. When the handicaps were...

Fiction Leaf Season by John Updike. On Columbus Day weekend, four families from Boston visit their friends, the Tremaynes, in their Vermont house. They do this every year. The couples are all in their early 40's, and they bring their children and their dogs. There are 17 children--ranging in age from 1 1/2 to...

The Sporting Scene MAINLY ABOUT CHRIS EVERT LLOYD by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about Chris Evert Lloyd & the 1986 US Open tennis championships, which were won by Martina Navratilova & Ivan Lendl... The US has never before had a sports heroine quite like Chris Evert Lloyd. A number of appealing & able women golfers, tennis players, skaters, skiers, swimmers...

The Talk of the Town Egg by James Stevenson. Talk story about writer's Great Aunt Edwina's birthday: A friend writes: Called my Great Aunt Edwina this morning to wish her a happy 87th birthday. She lives alone in a small white rented house in a Connecticut village, and you have to let the phone ring for a while. "Hello...

Profiles A GREAT OLD BREAKERAWAYER by Mary D. Kierstead. PROFILE of Molly Keane, 82, an Anglo-Irish writer. She lives in southern Ireland in County Waterford. She wrote her first novel "The Knight of the Cheerful Countenance", when she was 17. She used a pseudonym M. J. Farrell. She subsequently wrote 10 more novels & 4 plays, and there...

Poetry Autumn Elegy for the Giants by Ira Sadoff. For those of us who remember...