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HOST ALEX CHADWICK READS SOME LETTERS FROM OUR LISTENERS.

2: Novelist STANLEY ELKIN. He was called "one of the most entertaining stylists in contemporary American fiction." ELKIN's use of metaphor, "transforms grotesque situations and the drab vulgarity of popular consumer culture into comic affirmations of human existence." (from Contemporary Literary Criticism). His novels included, The MacGuffin, The Magic Kingdom, and others. ELKIN was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis twenty years ago. ELKIN died of heart failure on Wednesday, May 31, 1995. His novel Mrs. Ted Bliss will be published in September. (REBROADCAST FROM 3

SCOTT SIMON SPEAKS WITH ELAINE BEARER, PROFESSOR OF BOTH MUSIC AND MEDICAL SCIENCE, ABOUT A PIECE OF MUSIC SHE WAS COMMISSIONED TO WRITE, BY FELLOW ADMIRERS OF NEURO-SCIENCE PROFESSOR JOHN NICHOLS TO HONOR HIS 65TH BIRTHDAY LAST NOVEMBER. THE PIECE TITLED THE NICHOLLS TRIO ENDS WITH MUSIC BASED ON THE RYTHMIC FIRING OF PATTERNS OF THE NEURONS OF A LEECH. 8:11 (THE NICHOLLS TRIO MUSIC IS BEING PUBLISHED BY HILDEGARD PUBLISHING COMPANY, BRYN MAWR, PA 19010, 610-649-8649, AND A CD WILL BE ISSUED IN THE FALL OF 1995 BY ALBANY RECORDS, ALBANY, NY, 1-800-752

ENTERTAINMENT: SCOTT SIMON AND WEEKEND EDITION'S ENTERTAINMENT CRITIC ELVIS MITCHELL TALK ABOUT TELEVISION PROGRAMS THAT SEEM TO HAVE TARGETED, SEPARATELY, BLACK AND WHITE AUDIENCES.

Listeners share memories from their proms.

In the first of a series of reports on the African country of Namibia, Daniel explores the challenges a new democracy faces. Many of the concepts familiar to citizens of the United States like debate and lobbying are foreign to residents of Namibia, which gained its independence from South Africa five years ago.

We're going to follow a little league baseball team this summer, so today we attend one of their practices. The Yankees are half boys and half girls. Girls and Boys playing on the same baseball team is not THAT surprising these days.

Boutros - Daniel speaks with United Nations General Secretary Boutros Boutros Gali about the UN's predicament in Bosnia. Gali says that a negotiated settlement is still the best way to resolve the conflict, and that he is committed to keeping U-N peacekeepers in the region.

WEEKEND EDITION'S WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT DANIEL SCHORR SPEAKS WITH GARY HUFBAUER, SENIOR FELLOW AT THE INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS, AND YOSHIHISA KOMORI (yo-she-HEE-sah koh-MOR-ee), WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF OF THE TOKYO-BASED SANKEI SHIMBUM, ABOUT THIS WEEK'S RESOLUTION OF THE U.S.-JAPAN AUTO TRADE WARS AND WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR U.S.-JAPAN TRADE RELATIONS.

ECONOMICS: HOST ALEX CHADWICK AND JOE NOCERA, A CONTRIBUTING EDITOR AT FORTUNE MAGAZINE AND AUTHOR OF THE BOOK "A PIECE OF THE ACTION: HOW THE MIDDLE CLASS JOINED THE MONIED CLASS" PUBLISHED BY SIMON & SCHUSTER, EXPLORE WHY SOME MUTUAL FUNDS ARE ASKING PEOPLE TO THINK TWICE BEFORE INVESTING IN THEM.