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SIMON/OLLIE THE COW: SCOTT SIMON AND BARRY LEVENSON COMMEMORATE TODAY'S 65TH UNIVERSARY OF THE FIRST "FLYING" COW NAMED "ELM FARM OLLIE" AT THE ST. LOUIS INTERNATIONAL AIR EXPOSITION OF 1930. MR. LEVENSON IS THE CURATOR OF THE MOUNT HOREB MUSTARD MUSEUM AND FOUNDER OF ELM FARM OLLIE DAY, AN ANNUAL CELEBRATION IN MOUNT HOREB, WISCONSIN.

Jacki talks with author Pete Dexter, who wrote Paris Trout, about his most recent novel "Paper Boy". Dexter's has been a rough 'n tumble life, filled with many of the dramatic events that characterize his novels. It is this wide range of experience that Dexter says makes it easier to put yourself in the minds of people who have different backgrounds from your own.

NPR's movie critic, Bob Mondello, reviews the little-noticed movie about the troubled marriage of poet T.S. Eliot and his wife, Vivian. It's already garnered two Oscar nominations.

NPR's Peter Kenyon reports on the presidential candidates opening season. The top Republican hopefuls appeared on the Sunday morning talk shows just before kicking off the 1996 run for the White House.

NPR's Tom Cole reports on the debate over continued funding of the National Endowment for the Arts. Congressional hearings on NEA funding are due to begin next week

NPR's Jon Greenberg reports on a proposal that several governors have put together which would define how hundreds of federal programs could be combined into a handfull of blockgrants. The proposal would limit the funds going directly from Washington to cities.

Jacki talks to Ken Khachikian, who worked on President Reagan's State of the Union address in 1987. He says that President Clinton has an opportunity to take control of the direction of the country when he delivers his State of the Union address on Tuesday, and that it could also be the beginning of his re-election campaign.

NPR's Elizabeth Arnold reports that both the Republican and Democatic Natinal Committees are meeting this weekend to strategize about the future of their parties.

In the final installment of the NPR series 'The Subject is Sex,' Reporter Ginger Miles describes how her expectations of adulthood as a college student were very different from the way things turned out.

NPR'S DEAN OLSHER LOOKS AT THE REASONS BEHIND THE GENDER GAP IN JAZZ.