The Talk of the Town Sailed Away by David McClelland. Talk story about message from a friend who set forth to travel in the "Country of the Nonchalant", inspired by a Chinese travel sketch, and found it in New York's sailing district, City Island in the Bronx. He went out on a 27-ft. Soling racing sloop called Bluebird. Richard...

The Talk of the Town Whimsey by Mark Singer. Talk story about AT&T's new phone-book cover which celebrates the American Bicentennial and the centennial of the invention of the telephone. Stanley Meltzoff designed the cover, which depicts 32 characters from American "history" talking on the telephone. Mentions the magazines in which art work by Meltzoff, an...

The Talk of the Town Comeback by George W. S. Trow. Talk story about the theory put forth by Robert T. Bakker, age 30, Junior Fellow at Harvard, that dinosaurs were warm-blooded animals and that birds are their descendants. In the article "Dinosaur Renaissance" n "Scientific American" he discusses how dinosaur-bone histology, the placing of fossils within certain temperature...

Fiction Relatives by Penelope Mortimer. In England, each of the writer's grandmothers bore eleven children, which was one of the few things her parents had in common. Because the grandfathers died early, the writer doesn't know much about them, except what they looked like and their vocations. Several letters to her father from his father...

Profiles THE HOUSE OF BAEDEKER by Herbert Warren Wind. PROFILE of the House of Baedeker, German travel-book publishers. Today company is headed by the founder's great grandson, Karl Friedrich Baedeker & the hq. are in Freiburg. It enjoyed great prestige over a 40-year period, which reached its peak around 1900 & ended with the outbreak of WWI...

On Photography Men Without Props by Janet Malcolm.

The Race Track A Cup for Wajima by G. F. T. Ryall. Optimistic Gal who won the Matron Stakes and Honest Pleasure who won Chicago's Arlington-Washington Futurity, are both trained by LeRoy Jolley. The winner's share of the Chicago Futurity was $140,610 and top money in the Matron was $51,132. The trainer gets ten per cent of these purses...

Books Life in an Iron Lung by Naomi Bliven.

The Sporting Scene THE COMPANIONS OF THE GAME by Roger Angell. THE SPORTING SCENE about interview with San Francisco Giants president, Horace C. Stoneham. Stoneham is selling his controlling share of the Giants to Japanese businessmen, thus ending the Stoneham family's ownership of the team which began in 1919. The Japanese offered 17 million dollars for the club, its minor-league...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. On the morning the bus and subway fares were raised to 50 cents, we happened to enter the West Side I.R.T. at 110th Street. When we got into the station we found ourself face to face with four or five young people shouting, "No fare at this station!" and "Say...

Musical Events Concert Records by Winthrop Sargeant.

The Current Cinema VIVID DOLDRUMS by Penelope Gilliatt. Review of her new film "Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August." Mentions her earlier films: "The Lizards", "Love and Anarchy", and "The Seduction of Mimi...

Poetry Taurus On Taurus by Jack Butler. It might not matter if it weren't my sign...

Poetry The Cherry Tree by Thom Gunn. In her dreamless sleep it...