Cover artist: Joseph Low Publication Date: August 29, 1977 Page Count: 88 pages In this issue:Comment by George W. S. Trow. A letter from a man who was 13 years old in 1956 tells about Elvis Presley, the rock-n-roll star who died last week. The writer remembers hearing Presley record, "That's All Right," in 1956. Says that it's a significant song by a significant man. Elvis had a gift... The Talk of the Town Sunday by Natacha Stewart. Talk story about a Sunday in Manhattan. Writer visits the Met, sees the exhibit of Thracian Treatures and speculates that she would take a Cezanne apple home with her if she could... Our Local Correspondents Naturalized Citizen NO. 9845165 by Ved Mehta. Ved Mehta first started dreaming of leaving India and coming to the United States when he was five years old. When he was fourteen or fifteen, a consul at the American Embassy in New Delhi issued him a 4-E visa, which was valid for only 12 months at the... The Current Cinema Bunuel, Brilliant on a Shoestring by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of his film "Illusion Travels by Streetcar... Fiction Going On Like This by John Rolfe Gardiner. Worton has a resident prowler. Free to ramble, he has two shotguns and no wife. His night prowl takes him two hundred yards up the road from his home to the church. The bench of the corner store is his resting place for the middle of the journey past the... Books The Nake Emperor by Naomi Bliven. Annals of Crime Dead Souls in the Computer~II by Thomas Whiteside. ANNALS OF CRIME about computer crime. Discusses at length the difficulties in detecting acts of embezzlement, fraud, or thievery in which computers are used. Auditors have disclaimed that it is their responsibility to detect fraud. Also, the difficulty of catching up with people who have committed computer crime is compounded... Fiction Two Weddings and One Divorce by Isaac Bashevis Singer. Three Chassidim tell stories about love. Levi Yitzchok tells about Reb Pinchos Edelweiss and Aba Zillah, a wealthy man and his wife, who were happy in marriage except for being childless. When Reb Pinchos becomes ill, he decides to divorce his wife so that she can remarry. He writes his... The Race Track Jatski's Travers by G. F. T. Ryall. Seattle Slew made a public appearance at the Saratoga Spa on Tuesday, which Governor Carey had proclaimed Seattle Slew Day... The Talk of the Town Nothing Undone by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about actress Maggie Smith, who has been in residence at the Stratford Festival, in Stratford Ontario for two seasons. Writer and a friend, Timothy S. Mayer, who used to be in theatre in Cambridge Mass., in the 1960's, and who now works for the Glad ding Corporation... Poetry Two Poems by Dave Smith. In this season, through the clear tears... Poetry Glass by Brendan Galvin. What the warbler must have seen... |