Memory by George W. S. Trow. Story in the form of a sales pitch for a memory offer. Bobby Bison, the King of Nostalgia, is making available selections from "your own personal memory," before he exports them to the oil-rich Iranians. The memories involved are the original memories of the actual memorable events themselves. This...

Dancing by Arlene Croce.

A Reporter at Large THE ICE ROAD by Edith Iglauer. REPORTER AT LARGE. A road hundreds of miles long is made out of snow and ice every winter in the far north of Canada where nobody lives. John Denison is the builder & the writer went along with him one Jan. to watch the construction of the road which makes...

The Theatre RECALLED TO LIFE by Brendan Gill.

Fiction At the Dinner Table by Arturo Vivante. In a large old villa near Siena, Italy, run partly as a pension, lived David, his wife Jessie & David's elderly father. The father suffered from hardening of the arteries which caused lapses in his memory. But when it came to discussing philosophy--his field--he was nearly as conversant...

The Talk of the Town Wednesday, December 11, 1974 by Anthony Hiss. Talk story covering one day's activities by several reporters, who had nothing on their calendars except to enjoy the city...

Musical Events by Andrew Porter.

Comment by Richard H. Rovere. Obituary of Walter Lippmann, who died Dec. 14, 1974 at 85...

The Current Cinema by Pauline Kael. Review of "Young Frankenstein,” with Gene Wilder in the title role. Critique of his acting in this & other films...

Poetry 26-Dec-62 by L. E. Sissman. Night sweat: my temperature spikes to 102...

Poetry After All by William W. Hunt. After all these years of another life...