CINEMA
They Came to Cordura. Hollywood's standard brand of horsemeat is dished up with a strong sauce of metaphysics in this Gary Cooper western about a coward who shows the meaning of courage.
Pillow Talk. A sometimes fluffy comedy, with Supporting Player Tony Randall earning all the yaks, and Stars Doris Day and Rock Hudson on hand to supply scenery.
Career. In this soaper about show business, Sad Young Hero Anthony Franciosa performs ably, but the viewer may puzzle over why the theater so often presents itself as one of the bleeding arts.
The FBI Story. A fast-draw documentary of an upright Hoover man, which manages to click despite a cluttering subplot concerning the domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart.
Look Back in Anger. A glimpse through an attic window into a twilight society that looks forward to the past. With Richard Burton as the original Angry Young Man.
The Magician (Swedish). Brilliant Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman's latest brew of symbolism and sex.
North by Northwest. Director Hitchcock's compass points both to Gorky Street and Madison Avenue, with a smooth adman (Gary Grant) accidentally and entertainingly caught in the grasp of a sly spy (James Mason) and his secret weapon (Eva Marie Saint).
The Diary of Anne Frank. A tender, heartfelt masterpiece.
TELEVISION
Wed., Nov. 11
CBS Reports (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Filmed in India, this sobering documentary is a careful study of one of the sociologists' most serious problems: The Population Explosion. Indian officials and Indian and U.S. religious leaders discuss the significance of the startling (49 million a year) growth in the world's population.
Thurs., Nov. 12
Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The irresistible force of political pressures meets what should be an immovable object: a scrupulously honest man. The Hidden Image stars Franchot Tone, Martin Gabel, Nancy Marchand and George Grizzard.
Fri., Nov. 13
The Art Carney Show (NBC, 8:30-10 p.m.). Thornton Wilder's modern classic, Our Town, with Carney as the stage manager who tells all because he knows all.
Music from Shubert Alley (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Six decades of Broadway, recalled in the songs that sparkled in Shubert Alley musicals. Andy Williams is host. Guest stars include Alfred Drake, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Doretta Morrow, Lisa Kirk, Ray Walston.
Sun., Nov. 15
Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12-12:30 p.m.). Where Are You? will demonstrate the growing complications of navigation, from the seabound voyages of Columbus to the spacebound travels of tomorrow.
Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Newscaster Charles Collingwood conducts a tour of the Rockefeller Institute in Manhattan, where Dr. Rene Dubos is conducting his own tour of The World of TB.
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A rehash of one of the Western world's most disastrous defeats in the East, The Fall of China to the Communists in 1949. Pearl Buck, General Albert Wedemeyer and General David Barr are on hand to assist Narrator Walter Cronkite.
Hallmark Hall of Fame (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.). Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House, starring Julie Harris, Christopher Plummer, Jason Robards Jr. TV adaptation by James (Little Moon of Alban) Costigan. Color.
Dinah Shore Chevy Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Julie London and Cliff Arquette join a guest who is capable of carrying the show all by himself: France's Yves Montand. Color.
Tues., Nov. 17
Mercury Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A salute to vaudeville by some of the men who knew it best. The Big Time brings together George Burns, Jack Benny, George Jessel and Eddie Cantor. Color.
THEATER
On Broadway
The Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and ten-year-old Patty Duke superbly enact famed Teacher Annie Sullivan's turbulent, triumphant struggle with the child Helen Keller. The play is sometimes clumsy, but the show as a whole is unforgettable theater.
Heartbreak House. An uneven but often brilliant production of Shaw's uneven but often brilliant portrait of "cultured, leisured Europe" before World War I. With Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Sam Levene, Diana Wynyard.
Take Me Along. O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! set to music becomes a lilting period piece, bolstered by the vaudeville virtuosity of Jackie Gleason, brightened by the acting talents of Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse.
At the Drop of a Hat. Ranging between satire and whimsy, the educated "afterdinner farrago" of two English song-and-chatter specialists provides one of the gayest evenings on Broadway.
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still casts its affectionate illumination on Negro life on Chicago's South Side; La Plume de Ma Tante remains a vintage French revue; My Fair Lady and The Music Man head the musical comedy division.
BOOKS
Best Reading
The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. Classicist Graves argues that Homer meant his Iliad as a satire, and he provides a brilliant prose-and-verse translation flavored by wit instead of the customary chalk dust.
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. An absorbing biography that brings literature's "doubting Thomist and joking Jesuit" out of the shadow of his reputation.
Krishna Fluting, by John Berry. An exotic, erotic, comic novel of Quakers in India, by a writer who seldom turns a mere journeyman's line.
The Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. A taut, savage novel, at times leaning too far toward melodrama, about a power struggle between a prison psychologist and a convict leader.
The Mansion, by William Faulkner. Despite awkwardness in the writing, this last installment of the Snopes trilogy (earlier novels: The Hamlet, The Town) remains a smoldering personal testament to the worst in the American South and the worst in man.
Edison, by Matthew Josephson. An able biography of the deaf, eccentric, agnostic genius who had no equal as an inventor-promoter.
The Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. A remarkable job of re-creating the great naval battle and the stormy political and religious climate in which it was fought.
The Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. With her customary astringent prose, the author sketches a city that remains great despite traffic dangerous enough to put present-day monument watchers beneath tombstones.
Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. Despite inevitable translation difficulties, the verse of Doctor Zhivago's author suggests genius.
The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The redoubtable dunce of the immigrant English class is back, just as funny as ever.
The Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. The 18th century's most dedicated amoralist tells tall tales of his libertine youth.
A Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle.
The Rack, by A. E. Ellis. The hero of this chilling novel fights to remain alive in a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium.
Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. The leader of Burma's jungle-fighting Chindits during World War II, portrayed in a well-done biography.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*
2. The War Lover, Hersey (5)
3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (2)
4. Exodus, Uris (3)
5. The Devil's Advocate, West (8)
6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6)
7. Poor No More, Ruark
8. The Cave, Warren
9. The Thirteenth Apostle, Vale (7)
10. I Was a Teen-Age Dwarf, Shulman (10)
NONFICTION
1. Act One, Hart (1)
2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2)
3. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (5)
4. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (3)
5. This Is My God, Wouk (4)
6. Groucho and Me, Marx (8)
7. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (6)
8. The Armada, Mattingly
9. Tie Ape in Me, Skinner (10)
10. A Natural History of New York City, Kieran (9)
*All times E.S.T. *Position on last week's list.
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