The Talk of the Town Saint by Xavier Rynne. Talk story about the long and costly process of the canonization of John Nepomucene Neumann, which took place on June 19, 1977. Writer spoke with Father Francis J. Litz, a 78-year-old. Redemptorist priest at St. Peter's Church in North Philadelphia who had seen the canonization process through to...

The Talk of the Town Coming Across by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about E.M. Frimbo's journey from Miami, in January, to Klamath Falls, Oregon, in April, in a train hauled by a steam engine. Since Jan. 1 he has travelled 47,381 miles by train, bringing him to a total of 2,455,108 miles. The locomotive on his recent journey was one...

The Current Cinema A German Masterpiece by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Effi Briest", a 1974 film by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. It comes from the famous German novel of 1893 by Theodor Fontane...

A Reporter at Large Coming into the Country~II by John McPhee. REPORTER AT LARGE about the upper Yukon region of Alaska. Brad Snow & Lilly Allen, a married couple, who came to the region in 1974, built a cabin on the Nation River, 46 miles from the town of Eagle. Before very long Snow received a notice from the Bureau of...

Comment by Thomas Whiteside. The R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company has just launched an advertising and promotional campaign for a new brand of cigarette named Real. Gives facts about the huge campaign on which they intend to spend 50 million dollars during the next 12 months. Writer is struck anew by the contrast between...

Musical Events Orpheus at the Orpheum by Andrew Porter.

The Race Track Going Up by G. F. T. Ryall. A question came up last week as to the legality of Seattle Slew's ownership, which could have cost him the Belmont and the Triple Crown. Dr. James Hill, the veterinarian, who picked out Slew for the Taylors is a shareholder in Wooden Horse Investments, Inc., which owns Slew, and there...

Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes. Tells about the Queen's Silver Jubilee procession. Among the bishops walked the immensely distinguished figure of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Hume, to whom no ecumenical invitation to take any other part in the service had apparently been given...

Cartoon The Scarecrow's Lament by Anthony Taber. Eight-panel cartoon showing a scarecrow doing a dance to scare the crows away from the grain...

Fiction The Beggar Maid by Alice Munro. Patrick Blatchford and Rose meet in the college library where Rose worked. He falls in love with her, she is never sure about how she feels about him. Rose is a poor scholarship student who lives with a retired English professor, a woman. Patrick is a graduate student in history...

The Theatre SINCERITY, NOT STYLE by Edith Oliver.

Fiction All Precincts Beware - Paper Tigress Loose! by S. J. Perelman. Gabe Hammerschlag, head of the N.Y.P.D.'s Confidence Detail assigns writer to find a beautiful woman who is in charge of illegal and exorbitant sales of stationery. Writer finds a beautiful woman, resembling Faye Dunaway, working in a stationery store. She tries to get him to buy a gross of...

Around City Hall Up in the Air by Andy Logan. George Willig, who lives in Hollis, Queens, and works as a designer for the Ideal Toy Corporation, scaled the 1350-foot South Tower of the World Trade Center, on May 26th. The city first responded by suing Willig for a quarter of a million dollars, then charges were dropped and...

Poetry Approaches To Blue Hill Bay: Chart No. 13313 by Donald Junkins. Late June, walking the deer runs...

Poetry The Wrong Kind of Insurance by John Ashbery. I teach in a high school...