CINEMA

The FBI Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery--Pretty Boy Floyd, Baby Face Nelson, John Dillinger. And despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmie Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing.

Look Back in Anger. The angry young hero (Richard Burton) boils over with indiscriminate rage at religion, the Sunday Times, his mother-in-law. Somehow the John Osborne play seemed saner on the stage than it does on the screen--but with Claire Bloom and Gary Raymond to help, the movie has its moments.

The Magician (Swedish). The latest witches' brew -- mesmerism, symbolism and sex--concocted by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, one of the most intriguing moviemakers now at work.

The Man Upstairs. A topnotch thriller about a demented scientist who tries to defy the world.

North by Northwest. The master's Hitchcockiest yarn in years gives a picture of the CIA that would make any real-life operative laugh his head off; nevertheless, suspense guaranteed. With Gary Grant, Eva Marie Saint and James Mason.

The Diary of Anne Frank. One of Hollywood's rare masterpieces.

TELEVISION

Wed. Oct. 7

Wagon Train (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The long trek westward is on again. This time, as the train makes up in St. Louis for The Greenhorn Story, a gullible traveler (Mickey Rooney) is subjected to the sharp dealing of just about every salesman in Missouri.

Hawaiian Eye (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Newest of the private peepers are a couple of uninsular operators named Tracy Steele and Tom Lopaka. Their very first caper, Malihini Holiday, traces a murder plot all the way from London to Waikiki.

U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Small-town tattletales embarrass the heroine's mother into insisting that Rachel's Summer be spent at home. But the vacation is ruined when Rachel discovers that Momma isn't so sure of her innocence. From a story by Charles (Lost Weekend) Jackson. With Martha Scott and Patty McCormack.

Thurs., Oct. 8

Bob Hope Buick Show (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). The first of half a dozen Hope specials. Guests include the Crosby brothers, Natalie Wood, Dean Martin, and David Rose's orchestra.

Big Party by Revlon (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Rock Hudson is host. The guests are Tallu, Sammy Davis Jr., Mort Sahl, Esther Williams, Lisa Kirk. And the theory is that the whole crew will kick in with spontaneous entertainment.

Fri., Oct. 9

Twilight Zone (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Playwright-Producer Rod Serling's exercise in fantasy. This one brings back that old pitchman Ed Wynn to play an old pitchman trying to outwit "Mr. Death."

Sat., Oct. 10

Five Fingers (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Few spy rings ever boasted so tricky a talent as Ventriloquist Edgar Bergen brings to Dossier, second in the series.

Sun., Oct. 11

Small World (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.) Edward R. Murrow checks in from his leave of absence long enough to arrange an intercontinental chat between U.S. Poet Robert Frost, British ex-M.P. and Humorist A. P. Herbert, Brazilian Poetess and New York Consul General Senhora Dora Vasconcellos. Subject: Should man quit throwing objects at the moon, and leave it to poets and lovers?

Milton Berle Special (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). First of two scheduled comedy-variety shows. On hand to help when they can sneak in a word: Lana Turner, Danny Thomas, Peter Lawford. Colo

Mon., Oct. 12

Richard Diamond, Private Detective (NBC, 7:30-8 p.m.). A man is murdered shortly after thanking Diamond for some past favors-- and no self-respecting shamus could stand for such tactics.

Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The slick-talking jazz buff goes to work for a smooth-talking comic played by Shelley Berman.

Tues., Oct. 13

Mercury Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Jerry Lewis may seem a far reach from the late Al Jolson, but with Molly Picon and Anna Maria Alberghetti to help, he ought to manage a reasonable facsimile of The Jazz Singer. Color.

THEATER

Much Ado About Nothing. Shakespeare's play is a bore in almost everything except its prickly-pear love story, but this becomes a total delight as played by the stars, Sir John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton.

A Raisin in the Sun. The budding hopes, deferred dreams and inner conflicts of a South Chicago Negro family are movingly probed in a fine first play.

J.B. Out of the Bible and into modern dress with Job. An added tribulation: the flatness of some of Archibald MacLeish's poetry. But theatrically, the evening is richly rewarding.

La Plume de Ma Tante. This French revue is as funny, and almost as silent, as a Keystone Cops movie.

Superiority breeds content with My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Redhead and Flower Drum Song, Broadway's delightful quartet of musicals.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Rack, by A. E. Ellis. A kind of Un-Magic Mountain--the harrowing story of a tuberculous hero who hacks his way back from the glacial rim of death in a cynically commercial Alpine sanatorium.

Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. A penetrating biography of the father of the Burma raiders, a brilliant fighting man with a head full of quirks and glory.

Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. A challenging study of what is wrong with the U.S. foreign policy--notably, the lack of a clear American public philosophy.

Act One, by Moss Hart. One of the most memorable autobiographies of this or any other theatrical generation.

This Is My God, by Herman Wouk. The bestselling novelist (Caine Mutiny) presents a simple, admirably clear guide to Judaism.

Men Die, by H. L. Humes. Fate coils around some white officers and Negro enlisted men in the Caribbean, and their common doom proves timeless.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. Early Nabokov (circa 1941) is better than Late Almost-Anybody-Else, and in this novel his mind plays trenchantly over the nature of reality, identity and the artist's task.

The Siege at Peking, by Peter Fleming. A vivid re-creation of the Boxer Rebellion.

The Restlessness of Shanti Andia, by Pio Baroja. A splendid tale of high 19th century adventure--duels, mutiny, piracy.

The Mermaid Madonna, by Stratis Myrivilis. Like figures on a Grecian urn, some passionate Aegean islanders fight, love, hate and die against a mythic, seagirt sunscape.

The Frozen Revolution, by Frank Gibney. An expert reading of Poland's cliff-hanging predicament, halfway between subjugation and freedom.

On a Balcony, by David Stacton. The Pharaoh Ikhnaton's neuroticism was more significant than his monotheism if Author Stacton is to be believed in this astringent, superior historical novel.

Lover Man, by Alston Anderson. Fifteen arresting short stories about smalltown Southern Negroes.

More Than Meets the Eye, by Carl Mydans. Without his camera, but with love and 20/20 vision, a crack photographer roams over a quarter-century of world battlefronts.

Best Sellers FICTION

1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*

2. Exodus, Uris (2)

3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)

4. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (4)

5. The Cave, Warren (5)

6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6)

7. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (8)

8. New Face in the Mirror, Dayan (9)

9. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (7)

10. Station Wagon in Spain, Keyes

NONFICTION

1. The Status Seekers, Packard (2)

2. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (1)

3. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (4)

4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (5)

5. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (3)

6. Act One, Hart

7. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (8)

8. The Years with Ross, Thurber (6)

9. The Great Impostor, Crichton (7) 10. Twixt Twelve and Twenty, Boone

* All times E.D.T.

* Position on last week's list.

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