The Theatre by Edith Oliver.

The Talk of the Town Scallop Shells by Geoffrey T. Hellman. Talk story about the late Jesse Hamilton Webb and his collection of scallop shells, presented to the Museum of Natural History in 1968, by his son William H. Webb. Webb, senior, was the president of the Rochester Box and Lumber Co. and the Piedmont Container Corp. of Lynchburg, Va. Conchology...

The Talk of the Town Festival by Jane Boutwell. Talk story about Stravinsky celebration held in Lincoln Center last week in honor of the late composer's 90th birthday (June 17). Tells about a rehearsal for a revival of the 1920 ballet, "Pulcinello." Stravinsky arranged the music attributed to the 18th century composer Giovanni Pergolesi. The ballet is being choreographed...

Fiction Maiden's Leap by Benedict Kiely. One hot summer morning in Ireland, Robert St. Blaise Macmahon, a very civilized gentleman and a writer, opened his door to a civic guard who had come to inquire about the dead man found on Miss Hynes' bed. Miss Hynes, (Mr. Macmahon's cousin and housekeeper) was still at the barracks...

Fiction Speech Of A Guide by W. S. Merwin. Things that you lost were guiding you. And you tried to replace them only sometimes you lost the replacements too even though you had grown to like the replacements better. But sometimes they hung around forever and taught you until you grew deaf to them. Then sometimes what you thought...

Annals of War VIETNAM I-FIRE IN THE LAKE by Frances FitzGerald. ANNALS OF WAR about Vietnam, Vietnamese history & Vietnamese culture. Writer suggests that the reason for American failure in Vietnam was due to a lack of understanding of the country & its people. Traces the development of the society from the 10th-century Chinese conquest through the organizing efforts of...

The Race Track by G. F. T. Ryall. No doubt you've been reading, in the recent accounts of a congressional committee's investigation of racing, about the use of electric batteries to stimulate horses to greater effort. The thing is a dry battery with a booster coil, both so small that together they fit into the palm of one's...

The Current Cinema by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Portnoy's Complaint", taken from Philip Roth's novel, written & directed by Ernest Lehman, Writer compares the movie unfavorably with the book...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In the last few months the Nixon Administration has been showing a new concern about the level of excellence exhibited in government operations. It came up a few months ago when Attorney General Kleindienst then a candidate for the office he now holds, was defending the propriety of his involvement...

The Talk of the Town Canvass by Jonathan Schell. Talk story about volunteer canvassing for Senator George McGovern, candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination, in Suffolk county before the N.Y. State Democratic primary June 20. Tells about a talk with Jim Senyszyn "information co-ordinator" at McGovern headquarters in Smithtown, L. I. Senysen, a graduate student in mathematics, described...

Poetry The Great Gulf by Richard Shelton. At night when each dark shape in the desert...