The Sporting Scene WEST OF MAYFAIR, EAST OF MANHATTAN by Herbert Warren Wind. THE SPORTING SCENE about Wimbledon and the U.S. Open. At Wimbledon this past summer the ladies'-singles was won by Evonne Goolagong Cawley and the men's by Bjorn Borg, while at the U.S. Open at Flushing Meadow Park Chris Evert Lloyd and John McEnroe were the victors. Writer describes the...

The Talk of the Town New by Jamaica Kincaid. Talk story about a conversation overheard at a luncheon at the Regency Hotel, in honor of Cyd Charisse, the dancer and actress, because her legs were the first pair of legs to be elected to the newly established Hall of Fame for Famous Legs...

The Air (On Television) Upriver in Samurai Country by Michael J. Arlen.

Books Smuggled Out by Whitney Balliett.

Fiction Still of Some Use by John Updike. Foster helps his ex-wife clean out the attic of the house she is selling, the house their sons, now 22 and 19, grew up in. They come across dozens of broken games--Parcheesi, Monopoly, Comic-Strip Lotto, etc. They toss them out the window into the truck that the...

Comment by Jonathan Schell. In 1969, when "The Selling of the President", by Joe McGinnis, was published, showing that Richard Nixon had used Madison Avenue advertising techniques to the full in his recent election campaign, the book was regarded as an expose. This year, each campaign has its own Joe McGinnis, on its staff...

Comment by Frank Conroy. Obituary of Bill Evans, jazz pianist, who died recently at the age of fifty-one...

Musical Events Tantantara! by Nicholas Kenyon.

The Talk of the Town Guilford Fair by James Stevenson. Illustrated talk story about the annual Guilford, Connecticut Fair...

Onward and Upward with the Arts II-THE BLOCKBUSTER COMPLEX by Thomas Whiteside. ONWARD & UPWARD WITH THE ARTS about the book-publishing industry. Now that most publishers are owned by conglomerates there is a huge emphasis on the "blockbuster" best-seller. One reason for the great increase in sums paid for paperback-reprint rights is the role played by the authors' agent...

The Talk of the Town The Accident by Daniel Ford. Talk story about a visit to Arkansas after an atomic accident. At 3:01 AM on Friday, Sept. 19th in the middle of parched farmland about four miles north of Damascus a U.S. Air Force Titan II missile exploded, killing Air Force Sergeant David Livingston and injuring 21 other airmen. 1400...

The Theatre HOME TRUTHS by Brendan Gill.

Fiction Moon and Madness by Isaac Bashevis Singer. In the town of Radoszyce, Poland, as the snow falls outside their study, three men - Zalman the Glazier, Levi Yitzchok and Meir the Eunuch -sit and talk about pity. Zalman claims that too much pity can cause damage, and to illustrate his point, tells the tale of the Polish Count...

Poetry Sex by Pablo Neruda. The door at twilight...

Poetry Yellow Light by Garrett Kaoru Hongo. One arm hooked around the frayed strap...