Books Cohn's Doom by John Updike.

Comment by A. Richard Barber. Comment about a chance encounter which resulted in finding an assured daily parking space in New York. Writer's friend and his wife were on York Ave. waiting for a hardtop's departure so that they could park in its space. Its owner was known to leave the area between 5:30 and...

Musical Events Saintly Shout and Solemn Jubilee by Andrew Porter.

Comment by James Stevenson. A man writes that after studying Section 9 of the Sunday "Times" (the part featuring Merchandise Offerings and Auction Sales notices) he finds his Christmas gift list is shaping up. Tells about the gifts he plans to give to various family members. They consist of factories, industrial equipment and large...

The Talk of the Town Gould's Greenhouse by James Stevenson. Illustrated talk story about going to Lyndhurst, Jay GouldOs 67-acre estate above the Hudson River at Tarrytown, on the 100th anniversary of his greenhouse. Lyndhurst is now a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Writer pays $4 admission and proceeds down a long driveway past rolling lawns...

Jazz Bunny Berigan by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction Bill Boston by Charles Dickinson. Bill Boston has long been rumored dead, but one day Hooper sees him walking up the avenue with a beautiful woman on one arm. He has the same blond-white hair and stocky build and is wearing an expensive suit. Hooper is too stunned and shy to approach. He had...

Letter from the Space Center by Henry S. F. Cooper. After the space shuttle Columbia completed its four test flights--it is scheduled to go on its first operational flight on Nov. 11th--writer paid a visit to the Johnson Space Center, in Houston. While the shuttle takes off from the Kennedy Space Center, at Cape Canaveral, the Johnson Space...

Fiction Moving Water by Ann Beattie. Story told in the first person about a woman who is recovering from a breakup with Jason, whom she lived with and who told her one afternoon after work that he did not love her and never had. In the first scene the narrator is watching her brother's wife Corky...

The Talk of the Town Wheaten People by Naomi Bliven. Talk story about wheaten terriers. One afternoon the writer observed a splendid sand-colored dog, roughly the conformation of an Airedale but not as large, disorganizing a whole block of upper Broadway with a rapid-fire display of good-humored antics. His owner said the dog was a wheaten terrier...

Onward and Upward with the Arts SOME FIGURES ON A FANTASY by Lillian Ross. ONWARD AND UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about moviemaker Francis Coppola and his movie "One from the Heart", which was released in Feb., 1982. It took 22 months to make and its cost came to 27 million dollars. Tells about the making of the film, done in Coppola's studio Zoetrope, where...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

The Theatre Off Broadway by Edith Oliver.

Poetry Sometimes, At Thirty-Six by Roger Weingarten. I'm walking a side street...

Poetry Dawn Walk by Edward Hirsch. Some nights when you're asleep...

Poetry In the Golden Age by Carlos Drummond De Andrade. In the golden age...