Dancing Sweet Love Remembered by Arlene Croce.

Letter from London by Mollie Panter-Downes. A London theatre success is Ivy Compton-Burnett's "A Family and a Fortune," Julian Mitchell's excellent adaptation of the novel, at the Apollo. It stars Alec Guinness & Margaret Leighton, & is directed by Alan Stachan...

The Talk of the Town The Magic Is Blue by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about Blue Magic, the black 5-man vocal group from Philadelphia. Mills is the group's lead singer; he has a choirboy tenor voice, & one of his tricks is to hold a note until he gets at least 3 standing ovations. Quotes Mills, who told the writer about...

Cartoon Keeping Fit by George Booth. Captioned drawings (8) of different ways of keeping fit. Spend time with a goat; dance along with Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers; take turns with your wife c carrying each other around the room; run through a parking lot touching every car; hop to work on one foot and home...

Fiction The Old-Age Home by Lou Myers. A man describes his visits to his mother, who lives at an old-age home in the Bronx. Most of the residents are Jewish. The visits take place throughout the period of one year. She tells him what she thinks goes on in the Home and keeps him informed about...

Books A Case of Mistaken Identity by Anthony Lewis.

Musical Events Popular Records by Douglas Watt.

The Talk of the Town Legal Doings by Mark Singer. Talk story about a morning lecture session of the N.Y. Bar Review, which gives a crash course designed to help recent law-school graduates prepare for the N.Y. State Bar Examination. The morning & evening lectures, held in the ballroom of the McAlpin Hotel, were attended by 1000 people, &...

The Talk of the Town Ennial Countdown by Anthony Hiss. Talk story about manufactured products and activities celebrating the Bicentennial. Writer talked with Mrs. Mary Brooks, from Idaho, the director of the U.S. Mint, and daughter of a U.S. senator and the widow of a U.S. senator. She told the writer that the Mint, after five years of preparation, has...

The Current Cinema Take Physic, Pomp by Penelope Gilliatt. Full-column review of Kozintsev's "King Lear." Quotes from Kozintsev's astute "Shakespeare: Time and Conscience" (Hill and Wang...

The Race Track Saratoga As Usual by G. F. T. Ryall. Hawley rode Ancient Title and won the Whitney at Saratoga...

Profiles ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND VARIETIES by Berton Roueche. In PROFILE of apples, Henry IV, Part II, is quoted...

A Reporter at Large From MacArthur to Miki~II by Robert Shaplen. REPORTER AT LARGE about Japan's social, political and economic development from the mid-1950's to present. It began to rebuild its industry in the mid-1950's with the help of American technology which it adapted to its own needs. Today it is a dual-structure economy: a huge...

Comment by Donald Barthelme. Letter to a literary critic about the death of Post-Modernism- the latest literary movement. Tells how he realized that Post-Modernism was a dead aesthetic while reading a book called "One-Half," by William Y. Also mentions Zola's "Le Roman Experimentale" and Robbe-Grillet's "Jealousy...

Poetry Lighting A Candle For W. H. Auden by James Wright. The poet kept his promise...

Poetry Staying At Ed's Place by May Swenson. I like being in your apartment, and not disturbing anything...