The Talk of the Town Fillmore by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the final night of the Fillmore East last Sunday. The Fillmore has been, for over 3 years, an important place for rock people. Owner Bill Graham decided to close the theatre because he says that the groups who appeared were asking too high prices. Graham gave a...

Annals of Politics HOW THE PEOPLE FEEL by Richard Harris. ANNALS OF POLITICS about the 1970 campaign for US Senator from Tennessee between Sen. Albert Gore & Rep. William E. Brock III, who defeated Gore in the election. Writer visited Tenn. a few weeks before the election last fall, travelling with both candidates & talking with individuals from large &...

The Talk of the Town Thirty-one Flavors by E. J. Kahn. Talk story about Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Writer interviewed Irvine Bobbins at the Baskin Robbins store at Madison at 85th, one of the 4 B-R stores in Manhattan. (The others are at Third Ave. & 77th; Lexington & 68th; & Broadway & 112th.) Robbins co-founded the business 25...

Comment by Richard Harris. A senior member of the Republican National Committee recently said, in private, that the Nixon-Agnew Administration was planning a campaign to destroy the "credibility" of the press before the 1972 Presidential election. It is possible that the government's suit against the "Times" in the matter of the Pentagon papers...

The Current Cinema Split by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of "Drive, He Said", the first that Jack Nicholson has directed...

Letter from Paris by Janet Flanner. The Marmottan Museum was recently reconstructed to house some of Claude Monet's Impressionist pictures. It is in the high-class Paris suburb of La Muette. In 1966 Monet's only remaining son, Michel Monet, aged 87, died in a street accident. On his father's death in 1926, he had inherited the...

The Current Cinema SPLIT by Penelope Gilliatt.

The Talk of the Town Undivided Attention by Susan Lardner. Talk story about Janet & her complex travel plans for Europe this summer. She is taking her 2 daughters but says she waited too long. She has with her an article in the travel section of the "Post" with the headline, "Students Offered Bargain Air Fares." She tries to decide...

On and Off the Avenue Feminine Fashions by Kennedy Fraser.

Fiction Three Stories by W. S. Merwin. There is a drink which only the old ever taste. Everyone knows the day is full of rocks, but no one knows how to get past them, enter them or see what is inside them. At night when only the old are awak, black springs rise in some of the...

Fiction Rose Petals by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. The narrator, aging wife of an Indian Minister of government, contrasts her life to her efficient, forward-looking husband. She has no ambitions; although she attends all of the official functions which are required of a Minister's wife, she does not enjoy such formal occasions because she would rather enjoy...

Poetry On Insects by Lewis Thomas. As they pass in the labrinthine buried walks...

Poetry Riverside Park by Jill Hoffman. the park...