Obituary by Brendan Gill. Obituary of Frederick Packard, who died last week (Nov. 11) at 71, after several years of failing health...

The Talk of the Town Bouguereau by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about William Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905) the 19th cent. romantic classical salon painter whose works will be on exhibit at the N.Y. Cultural Center beginning Dec. 13th. Bouguereau's reputation was pretty much killed in his native France by the emergence of the Impressionists. His popularity continued to flourish in...

Fiction The Bedroom by Ted Walker. In his home in England, a husband goes up to his bedroom to fetch something & notices on the window ledge a martin building a nest. He sits down in a chair, to watch the bird & then begins to glance around at the furniture in this unaccustomed room &...

Fiction About (Almost Surely) New York, or Something by Nora Ephron. A satirical piece, comprised of a few anecdotes, deriding Mr. John Corry's column entitled "About New York" which runs in the "Times." The first anecdote is how telephone booths in N.Y. have changed, but no one knows how they are different. Second little story is about a telephone booth on...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. We went to Rome a week or so ago to see what we could find out about the food crisis from the World Food Conference, but our attention was diverted by a number of other crises in Italy. Dr. Kissinger said to the conference delegates, "In the past thirty years...

The Current Cinema SHEARING THE SHEEP: THE CURRENT CINEMA by Pauline Kael. Review of "The Trial of Billy Jack", a sequel to the 1971 "Billy Jack". Both were made by Delores Taylor & her director-husband, Tom Laughlin, who plays Billy Jack; she is also in the cast. Their daughter, Teresa, now 16, plays a leading role; their 19-year-old son...

Fiction Tyranny by Lyll Becerra De Jenkins. Marta Maldonado & her family live in a South American country which is ruled by a military dictatorship. 17 yr. old Marta tells the story of how her father, who was editor of a newspaper began writing editorials denouncing the General he once supported & what, became of the family...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

The Talk of the Town Nice Day After All by Anthony Hiss. Part of Talk story about writer who tells about his 3 different appointments last Tuesday. First, he was suppose to board an advance unit of the Freedom Train, a beautiful 24 car, steamhauled train that is going to lug precious United States documents around the country for the next two...

The Air (On Television) by Michael J. Arlen.

The Talk of the Town Spooky by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about a publicity press seance arranged by Patti Goldstein for the book, "The Search for Joseph Tully," by William H. Hallahan and published by Bobbs-Merrill. Phyllis Woodbury was the medium at the seance, which was held in a West Side townhouse owned by Tom H. John. She...

Our Local Correspondents EZPLANATION by Richard N. Goodwin. OUR LOCAL CORRESPONDENTS about the views of an expert on the recent elections. He is a man who managed one of the Democratic Party's greatest Presidential triumphs & advised 2 Presidents before returning to Wall St. & the law. He said polls & computers influence politicians. A lot of them...

The Theatre by Brendan Gill. Review of "Sherlock Holmes" a production by the Royal Shakespeare Company, directed by Frank Dunlop, who served as a collaborator to Arthur Conan Doyle and William Gillette. Doyle and Gillette wrote "Sherlock Holmes" back in the nineties, & it was an immediate success. Gillette, a superlative actor as well as...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Books by L. E. Sissman.

A Reporter at Large THE BANK DRAMA by Daniel Lang. A REPORTER AT LARGE about Jan-Erik Olsson's takeover of Sveriges Kreditbank in Stockholm, where he & an accomplice held 4 hostages for 6 days in Aug. 1973. The Swedish gov't refused to allow Olsson to leave the bank with hostages. The captives--2 young unmarried women, Kristen Ehnmark &...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. Augustus Bay won the steeplechase running of the Colonial Cup over Mrs. Marion duPont Scott's Springdale course at Camden, S.C. He is an 8-year old gelding, whom Eric Watters trains in a swimming pool for Miss Jane Clark...

Poetry If Is 70 deg. In Late November. Opening A Window, You Nearly Know by Heather McHugh. how certain...

Poetry The Drowned Children by Louise Gluck. You see, they have no judgement...