CINEMA

It Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script), in which a psychopath, brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe, and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows.

Never on Sunday. A rambunctious little politico-philosophical fable about the Virtuous Whore and the Quiet American, who meet and educate each other in an earthy Greek setting. Directed by Jules (He Who Must Die) Dassin and starring Melina Mercouri, Hellenism's latest triumphant incarnation.

Spartacus. Director Stanley Kubrick has turned out a surprisingly impressive film about Rome's slave uprising, despite the fact that Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, Jean Simmons, Sir Laurence Olivier, Charles Laughton, Tony Curtis, Nina Foch and several thousand colleagues do their acting knee-deep in blood.

Sunrise at Campobello. Writer Dore Schary occasionally aims his script at the cheap seats in this adaptation of his Broadway hit, but the film is a craftsmanlike job, and Ralph Bellamy's characterization of Franklin Roosevelt is excellent.

The Entertainer. Some of the force of Playwright John Osborne's caustic metaphor, England as a seedy music hall in which no-talent frauds held the stage, may be lacking in the film version of his drama, but Sir Laurence Olivier's interpretation of a soggy song-and-dance man is a masterpiece of mannerism.

TELEVISION

Tues., Nov. 8

Election Coverage (NBC and CBS from 8:30 p.m., and ABC from 9 p.m.). ABC promises a cast of 1,000, not counting Univac, headed by John Daly. CBS counters with the new IBM 7090 and its sidekick RAMAC 305 to tally ballots "within thousandths of a second," will also use humans, with Walter Cronkite as anchor man. NBC boasts an RCA 501 and a similar 1,000-man task force, commanded by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley, needless to say.

Wed., Nov. 9

Wanted - Dead or Alive (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). The women rebel against gunplay in an unlikely western updating of Aristophanes' Lysistrata.

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Douglas Edwards narrates "The Antique Swindle" - an expose of the purveyors of underaged Chippendale.

Thurs., Nov. 10 Purex Special for Women (NBC, 4-5 p.m.). "The Trapped Housewife," a documentary dramatization and subsequent panel discussion pondering the distaff "disenchantment syndrome."

Fri., Nov. 11

The Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Burgess Meredith leads a musical commemoration of Veterans Day. His guests: Alfred Drake, Genevieve, Gisele MacKenzie and the U.S. Military Academy Glee Club. Color.

Sat., Nov. 12

N.C.A.A. Football Game (ABC, 2:15 p.m. to conclusion). A clash between the Jig Ten juggernauts, Iowa and Ohio State.

The Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). After the Great Debate, the Medium-Sized Melee. In the premiere of a new series, Nuclear Scientists Leo Szilard and Edward Teller discuss disarmament.

Sun., Nov. 13

College News Conference (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). An election post-mortem with Senators Wayne Morse and George Aiken.

Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). Alistair Cooke launches the 1960-61 series with an examination of the American presidency. Commentator: McGeorge Bundy, dean of the faculty of arts and sciences at Harvard.

Oh, Those Bells! (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). A new slapstick situation series with the Wiere Brothers, a trio of knockabout vaudevillians.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). A study of Task Group Alfa, the Navy's submarine hunter-killer force.

General Electric Company Special (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). "The Influential Americans" focuses on the need for topnotch liberal arts graduates in teaching.

Mon., Nov. 14

Story of a Family (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The first in a long-range documentary series on the American people probes family life.

THEATER

On Broadway

An Evening with Mike Nichols and Elaine May. Into the cobra-comic coils of this superb comedy team fall mothers and sons, brothers and sisters, lovers and mistresses, P.T.A. chairmen and guest speakers. The subjects may be common, but the hilarity isn't.

A Taste of Honey. Joan Plowright performs brilliantly in a work of understated, unhistrionic realism, which blinks at nothing in a shabby world. Written by Britain's Shelagh Delaney when she was 19, the play is episodic, yet shows a promising knack for theater and a well-developed sense of truth.

Irma La Douce. A piquant and jaunty French musical fleshed out by the song-and-dance skill and saucy insouciance of Elizabeth Seal, who plays a girl of whom no one can say 'tis pity she's a whore.

The Hostage, by Brendan Behan. A high old display of Erin-go-bawdry, keening Celtic lyricism, and tongue-out-of-cheek irreverence. In an incoherent sort of way, it is all about an English soldier captive in Ireland.

Among last season's plays with a strong grip on this season's playgoers are The Miracle Worker, Toys in the Attic, Bye Bye Birdie.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Rabbit, Run, by John Updike. Writing with chilling and relentless despair, the author tells with great skill of the crackup of a dreary young man; what the reader must decide is whether society (as Updike seems to suggest) or mere poverty of soul causes the crackup.

Incense to Idols, by Sylvia Ashton-Warner. In this impressive second novel by the author of Spinster, an amoral and witchingly lovely woman spins a treacherous human web, in which men snared by beauty must ultimately confront God, death and salvation.

Prospero's Cell and Reflections on a Marine Venus, by Lawrence Durrell. In this earlier work, the laureate of the wine-dark sea turns his sun-bedazzled eye on the islands of Corfu and Rhodes. To Durrell the Greek landscape lastingly utters one commandment: Know thyself.

The Last of the Just, by Andre Schwarz-Bart. A sprawling novel that follows, often with eloquence, the travails of Europe's Jews from the medieval pogroms to Hitler's crematories. Inescapably, the author's answer to Judaism's chief puzzle, what is a Jew?, are not entirely satisfactory.

Portrait of Max, by S. N. Behrman. The twilight years of a dandy, Sir Max Beerbohm, sketched with grace, fondness and urbanity. Decorated with many a scathingly eloquent caricature by "the incomparable Max."

The Sabres of Paradise, by Lesley Blanch. A true Arabian Nights tale of 19th century Russia's subjugation of unruly Caucasus tribesmen, replete with high-bouncing feats of battlefield and seraglio.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William L. Shirer. The gaudy, grisly supermen of Nazidom strut their Wagnerian stage once more in a historical chronicle, beside which most historical novels seem puny.

The Nephew, by James Purdy. A highly accomplished novelist, who changes his pace from book to book, examines the secrets of a seemingly commonplace life and concludes that to love is not to know someone.

The Child Buyer, by John Hersey. In an acid satire, the author jousts tellingly with most of the fatuities of the age.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1)*

2. Hawaii, Michener (2)

3. The Leopard, Di Lampedusa (3)

4. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee (4)

5. The Lovely Ambition, Chase (5)

6. Mistress of Mellyn, Holt (6)

7. The Last Temptation of Christ, Kazantzakis (10)

8. The Chapman Report, Wallace (8)

9. The House of Five Talents, Auchincloss (7)

10. The Child Buyer, Hersey (9)

NONFICTION

1. The Waste Makers, Packard (1)

2. Kennedy or Nixon: Does It Make Any Difference?, Schlesinger (3)

3. Born Free, Adamson (2)

4. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Shirer (9)

5. The Politics of Upheaval, Schlesinger (4)

6. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (5)

7. Taken at the Flood, Gunther (8)

8. Baruch: The Public Years (10)

9. The Liberal Hour, Galbraith (6)

10. How I Made $2,000,000 in the Stock Market, Darvas

*All times E.S.T. *Position on last week's list.

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