CINEMA

Happy Anniversary. On their 13th anniversary, Husband David Niven and Wife Mitzi Gaynor remember their premarital hotel room in a mattress farce that is slick, sleazy, but hilarious.

They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul.

Pillow Talk. Flighty feathers fluttering around Hollywood's Box Office Champs Rock Hudson and Doris Day, with almost all the flurry caused by topnotch Comic Tony Randall.

Career. The nerve chart of a stage-struck ex-soldier who goes from cliche to cliche, saved by Anthony Franciosa's tingling performance.

The FBI Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life.

The Magician (Swedish). A fascinating potpourri of murky symbols, eerie images and fleshy scenes by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman.

North by Northwest. Adman Gary Grant tangles unwittingly with Spy Ringleader James Mason, succumbs to Double Agent Eva Marie Saint, winds up the hero of this thoroughly entertaining Hitchcock-and-bull story.

Diary of Anne Frank. An unforgettable drama.

TELEVISION

Wed., Nov. 25

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.) *When an anonymous letter fingers a top-rank scientist as a Communist and delays his security clearance, he launches an investigation of his own, discovers some shocking facts. Security Risk stars Larry Gates.

Thurs., Nov. 26 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade

(NBC, 11 a.m.-12 noon). The 33rd annual procession features giant balloons, gaudy floats, costumed marchers, and Shirley Temple.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Actresses Ann Todd and Angela Lansbury lead an all-British cast through an Australian murder trial in The Grey Nurse Said Nothing.

Fri., Nov. 27 The Special Tonight Series (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A kiddie-land department store Santa believes he is the real Claus. Miracle on 34th Street, a rewrite of the 1947 movie, stars Ed Wynn, Peter Lind Hayes and Mary Healy.

Westinghouse Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz Show (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Lucy and Desi in Japan.

Sat., Nov. 28 John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). New York--the Day People, the Night People visits some of Manhattan's nifty nooks and creepy crannies. Guide: Walter Winchell.

Sun., Nov. 29

Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). First of a two-part report on underwater exploration, The Bottom of the Sea is made fathomable with the help of Navy Scientists Robert Dietz, Jacques Piccard and Andreas Rechnitzer.

Art Carney Meets Peter and the Wolf (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). A repeat of last season's charming take-off on the Prokofiev classic.

Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Part I of a two-part report, Poland on a Tightrope.

Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Presentation of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences Awards, with winning numbers performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Nat King Cole, Van Cliburn, Duke Ellington. Color.

Mon., Nov. 30

Shirley Temple's Storybook (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Rapunzel stars Carol (Blue Denim) Lynley, Agnes Moorehead, Alexander Scourby.

Alcoa Theater (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). A corrupt party boss (David Brian) gets a former alcoholic (Cliff Robertson) nominated for Governor in Shadow of Evil.

THEATER

On Broadway

The Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and twelve-year-old Patty Duke bring such intensity and skill to Child Helen Keller's terrifying but triumphant fight for light that the show, despite its faults, is frequently great theater.

Heartbreak House. Shaw's picture of Europe's pre-World War I leisure class, if wordy and sprawling, is also witty and brilliant, while several members of a cast that includes Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Diana Wynyard, Diane Cilento are brilliant too.

Take Me Along. A nostalgic mood musical made from O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and made the brighter by Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse.

At the Drop of a Hat. With perfect timing and teamwork, England's Joke-and-Jingle Experts Michael Flanders and Donald Swann offer the season's most sophisticated fun.

Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still peers with tenderness into Chicago's Harlem; La Plume de Ma Tante maintains its Gallic gallop; My Fair Lady and The Music Man top the list of musical comedies.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Longest Day, by Cornelius Ryan. Crisp writing and detailed reporting of World War II's D-day make this one of the most tautly exciting of the "day" books.

The West-Going Heart, by Eleanor Ruggles. A warm biography of Folk Poet Vachel Lindsay, whose boomlay-booming verse, now mostly ignored, was once the rage of the college lecture circuit.

In the Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. Pulitzer Prizewinner Leech's thoughtful recollection of a widely loved President who remained as colorless as a leader as he was gentle as a man.

The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. The most charming English translation of the classic poem since Pope's, interpreted by Graves as satirical entertainment.

James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. A Ulyssean portrait, fashioned out of minute detail, of the purposefully enigmatic author, here demystified but not debunked.

Krishna Fluting, by John Berry. In this cleverly written comic novel, Quakers in India find that not all love is brotherly.

The Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. A skillfully written novel about a prison riot that is also a prickly parable of power and evil.

The Mansion, by William Faulkner. The final installment of a wild, grim-comic trilogy (its predecessors: The Hamlet, The Town), in which Flem, the worst of the Snopeses, gets his due in death.

Edison, by Matthew Josephson. A brisk biography of the man who became a world symbol of Yankee ingenuity.

The Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. A clear and perceptive account of Spain's great naval campaign against Elizabeth's England and of the stormy political and religious climate in which it was fought.

The Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. An account of a great city's past calamities and surviving glories, written in some of the year's most readable prose.

Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. Though the language curtain sometimes reduces the poet's lyric song to schoolboy singsong, this translation permits more than a glint of Pasternak's genius to filter through.

The Return of H*Y*M*A*N* K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The redoubtable dunce of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults returns to take his place in the folklore of immigrant life.

Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. A careful, concerned investigation into U.S. foreign policy, which Author Ways considers "headed for a dead end."

Act One, by Moss Hart. Famed Playwright Hart is a smash hit in a new role--that of autobiographer.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*

2. The War Lover, Hersey (5)

3. Poor No More, Ruark (8)

4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (2)

5. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4)

6. Exodus, Uris (3)

7. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain (7)

8. The Devil's Advocate, West (6)

9. Hawaii, Michener

10. The Thirteenth Apostle, Vale (9)

NONFICTION

1. Act One, Hart (1)

2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2)

3. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (5)

4. For 2-c-^ Plain, Golden (4)

5. This Is My God, Wouk (3)

6. The Armada, Mattingly (7)

7. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (6)

8. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (8)

9. Groucho and Me, Marx (9) 10. Diplomat, Thayer

*Position on last week's list.

*All times E.S.T.

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