The Race Track It's Cauthen Again by G. F. T. Ryall. Trainer of Royal Ski...

Books Sources by Jervis Anderson.

The Theatre The Heart and Its Reasons by Brendan Gill.

The Talk of the Town Art Talker by Calvin Tomkins. Talk story about scintillating art lecturer Rosamond Bernier, currently giving a series at the Metropolitan Museum of Art on "Four Royal Collectors". Another recent Museum series of hers was extremely well received as were her TV appearances on "Camera Three". She has been married since 1975 to John Russell, the...

Fiction Yochna and Shmelke by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Throughout all his years Reb Piniele Dlusker had devoted himself to Chassidism. He visited his rabbis on every holiday. His wife, Shrpintza Pesha was left with her one daughter Yochna. Yochna grew up healthy and loved Jewishness. When she turned twelve, her father brought her a groom from Trish, a...

The Talk of the Town Spectacolor by Fred C. Shapiro. Talk story about Spectacolor, an animated-light sign in Times Square. It is on a large panel about a third of the way up the north facade of the building called One Times Square, the former Times Tower at 43 St. & B'way. Writer visited the office of Spectacolor Inc...

The Talk of the Town At the Parsonage by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about Estelle Parsons and the Ballroom, a night club on West Broadway, in SoHo. The old curmudgeon last saw Estelle Parsons on a picket line in Shubert Alley, in 1968. Says he used to see her frequently when she sang at the Showplace, a night club in the...

Cartoon The Rachmaninoff File by Charles Saxon. Illustrated prose and fiction parody on sophisticated detective stories set in Europe. 9 drawings with prose indicating a succession of mysterious incidents...

Musical Events Brave, Noble, After the High Roman Fashion by Andrew Porter.

Dancing Selling It by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Bigelow II by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a visit on Jan. 28 to the opening of Bigelow II, an independently owned phar cy at 527 Main Street on Roosevelt Island. It is a branch of Bigelow I, on 6th Ave. bet. 8th & 9th Streets in the Village, the second-oldest pharmacy in the...

A Reporter at Large THE NEW INDIA OF INDIRA GANDHI by Ved Mehta. A REPORTER AT LARGE about India. On June 26, 1975, Prime Minister Indira Gandhi proclaimed a state of emergency in India. Under the provisions of the Emergency, freedom of the press was curtailed and for Westerners, India became a land of silence. Writer says that Indians are divided in their...

Comment by Paul Malamud. Letter from a friend about the cold weather. He writes that during the worst of the recent freeze he stayed indoors most of the time. The building he lives in is an old, large one on Riverside Drive. At the beginning of the freeze, a couple of pipes burst and...

Profiles PANASSIE, DELAUNAY ET CIE by Whitney Balliett. PROFILE of French jazz aficionados Hugues Panassie and Charles Delaunay. Panassie died 2 years ago at age 62. In 1932 he wrote "Le Jazz Hot," basically the first book of jazz criticism, putting jazz on the map in France and its own country. Tells about several other books about jazz...

Poetry Night Tree by Susan Mitchell. Walking out late...

Poetry A Star of His Sleep by Stephen R. Jamison. Aron, they bring...

Poetry Skids by Brian Swann. on lonely back roads...