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Commentator Kevin Kling remembers how he and his brother helped their dad paint the house. The paint job continues to astonish the neighborhood to this day.

Linda talks with Catherine Bowman about the poetry of seventy-year-old Philip Booth. We'll hear one of his early poems and two of his new poems.

2: Playwright MART CROWLEY. His works were recently re-published in a book, "3 Plays by Mart Crowley" (Alyson Publications). "The Boys in the Band" (1968), is the classic portrait of a gay artist living in New York and was one of the first plays to break the taboo on the portrayal of homosexuality. A revival of "The Boys in the Band" opened in June and the film version is being featured at the Philadelphia International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival this summer. CROWELY's other works in the book are "A Breeze from the Gulf" (1974) and "For Reasons that Remain Uncertain" (1994).

1: Essayist, poet and playwright DAVID MAMET. His new book, "Make-Believe Town" (Little, Brown and Co), is a selection of essays about everything from theater to politics to Judaism. His work has been called opinionated, forceful, original and always surprising. MAMET won a Pulitzer Prize for his play "Glengarry Glen Ross" and has written and directed several motion pictures.

Critic Bob Mondello has a review of the new film "Courage Under Fire," starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan, about the first woman to die in combat as a member of the U.S. Armed Forces.

- NPR's John Burnett spends a morning with a man who has written a book about Hummingbirds.

which is expected to touch on some sensitive issues such as married priests and birth control.

accused of hiding large cash withdrawals to the Clinton gubernatorial campaign in 1990.

Robert talks with Clifford Krauss, the police department bureau chief for the New York Times. Krauss discusses how fingerprint technology and a citywide crackdown on petty crime led to the arrest of three suspected killers in the New York metropolitan area.

Robert and Noah talk about President Clinton's speech before about five thousand labor activists today in Chicago, and Bob Dole's efforts to patch up differences in the Republican party about how to deal with the issue of abortion. (1:30) (TAPE &

Texas Republicans are meeting in San Antonio this week at their state convention and the issue of abortion is proving extremely divisive. Many state party activists are furious with the Dole campaign and moderate party leaders for not holding firm against including language stating tolerance for other views on abortion in the party platform. Some are threatening to stop one of the state's senators, Kay Bailey Hutchison, from being a state delegate to the Republican national convention. NPR's Wade Goodwyn reports.

A federal judge in Montana today ordered Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski to be remanded to Sacramento to face charges that he killed two people and injured two others with bombs. NPR's Howard Berkes reports on the risks prosecutors may face if they attempt to seek the death penalty in what will be one of the most carefully watched cases of the decade.