September 21, 1980

BRIDGEPORT OFF to a slightly ragged start at the Carlson Gallery of the University of Bridgeport is "Connecticut Photogra phers," which is sponsored by Art Resources of Connecticut and runs through Oct. 5. When the show was visited, ...

NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE was an extraordinarily handsome man, as James R. Mellow notes in this well-documented new biography. He was so happily married that his doting wife Sophia was ...

WHAT better time than the start of a new concert season to find out what New Jersey's music lovers are turning out to hear.

A 22-year-old Manhattan man, arrested Friday night in a robbery case, was charged in the Sept. 11 slayings of two doormen on West End Avenue. Page 39.

HONOLULU--"Arthur Murray doubled my money in a hurry," Cobey Black, a Honolulu writer, said the other day, paraphrasing a popular song of the 1940's, "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing in a Hurry."

There was something unusual about the director's preview of "Ordinary People": the director. Perhaps no one would have noticed him, in a back row seat in this Cincinnati theater, if ...

Enough was enough, the Boston Red Sox apparently decided yesterday at Yankee Stadium. Their 4-1 victory ended a streak of eight consecutive losses to the Yankees, and their four runs in the first two innings beat Gaylord Perry, a pitcher they had not defeated in more than three years.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20--China has asked the United States to allow it to buy modern police equipment, touching off a dispute within the Carter Administration over whether the sales should be permitted in view of China's human-rights record.

EAST HAMPTON PREYING on women left alone in their family vacation homes, a knife-wielding rapist who apologizes to his victims has been haunting the summer scene in this resort area for three years now.

PRETORIA, South Africa--The scene in the drafty hall here has become increasingly familiar to South Africans: Prime Minister P.W. Botha wagging his finger at right-wingers in the governing National Party, calling their racial intolerance a threat to the country's stability and their own future.

WASHINGTON--Almost as an afterthought was the word "development" added back in 1945 to the formal name of the then aborning World Bank.

WASHINGTON REPRESENTATIVES of 1,000 or more companies will flock to Department of Energy offices this week to lodge applications in the biggest peacetime industrial effort America has ever made-- the creation of an industry that could produce 2 million barrels a day of synthetic fuels. That is the equivalent of a third of the oil and gas that the country now buys from abroad.