TELEVISION

Thursday, November 26 THANKSGIVING DAY PARADE (NBC, 10-11:30 a.m.; CBS, 10 a.m.-12 noon).-NBC color cameras focus on the 38th annual Macy's Parade in Manhattan, featuring twelve marching bands, floats, giant balloons and the Radio City Rockettes, while CBS switches from parade to parade in New York, Philadelphia, Detroit and Toronto.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE (CBS, 12 noon-conclusion). The Chicago Bears play the Detroit Lions in Detroit.

KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Afraid their captured French underground leader (Louis Jourdan) will be tortured by the Nazis and talk, French Resistance fighters arrange to have a young killer arrested and placed in their leader's cell. Color.

Friday, November 27 NBC FOLLIES OF 1965 (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Comedy-variety special, starring Steve Lawrence and featuring Juliet Prowse, Jill St. John and Allan Sherman. Color.

Saturday. November 28 ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 4-6:30 p.m.). Professional Canadian football championship, the Grey Cup Game, from Toronto, Canada. U.S. fans should not be surprised to see a longer and wider field, twelve players on a team, and only three downs in which to move ten yards.

Sunday, November 29 DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). This show devoted to comedy introduces today's children to the art of Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin.

WILD KINGDOM (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Exploring the wetlands of the Grand Teton Mountains and Canada's northern wilderness. Color.

PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Senator Thomas Hart Benton's valiant struggle against the extension of slavery in new states.

Monday, November 30

NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC YOUNG PEOPLE'S CONCERT (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Leonard Bernstein takes a nostalgic look at the nationalistic music of the 19th and 20th centuries with works by Smetana, Falla and Charles Ives.

HALLMARK HALL OF FAME (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Program devoted to Sir Winston Churchill's artistic career narrated by Paul Scofield. Color.

Tuesday, December 1 WORLD WAR I (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). The war in the Balkans and military disaster at Gallipoli.

THEATER

On Broadway

LUV, by Murray Schisgal, sends three very modern and morose souls through a slapstick, tongue-wagging, satirical inferno of cocktail-party griefs. Under Mike Nichols' brilliantly inventive direction, Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin produce constant and crippling hilarity.

COMEDY IN MUSIC. That matchless mirthmaster of the keyboard, Victor Borge, riffles through gags and slides off the piano bench without altering his usual mask of dismay and disdain. Added notes, comic and musical, are provided by Straight Man Leonid Hambro.

A SEVERED HEAD wittily tucks three men and three women into bed in a variety of heterosexual combinations. A superb cast gives this British comedy high glee and high gloss without blinding playgoers to its underlying moral and mythical ambiguity.

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Blending song and satire, commcdia dell' arte garb and Brechtian notions, Joan Littlewood and her "thinking clowns" effectively depict the foolishness and ironies of the 1914-18 war.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF is a nostalgic folk-musical version of Aleichem's tales of life in Czarist Russia and the gentle dairyman, Tevye, brought to life by Zero Mostel's larger-than-life interpretation.

Off Broadway

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY. This engaging musical is lightly based on the days and dreams of the James Thurber character. Scenes from his several worlds are played with bounce and humor.

CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. With a chuckle rather than a sneer, a band of young Englishmen keep their eyes on the oddball and carry a big slapstick in this howlarious revue.

RECORDS

Opera

MARIA CALLAS SINGS VERDI ARIAS (Angel). It has been a year since Callas' last recording, and her partisans have been braced for trouble. The news is good. True, a few bold dashes above the treble staff end in wobbles, but even her wobbles are welcome because in each aria from Don Carlo, Otello, and Aroldo, an emotion is magically distilled into song.

MARIA CALLAS: ARIAS BY BEETHOVEN, MOZART AND WEBER (Angel). The earlier music makes more demands on Callas than does Verdi and provides fewer rewards.

HANDEL: RODELINDA (3 LPs; Westminster). It was in 1725, when opera was young, that Rodelinda was first a hit in the Haymarket. Six characters, accompanied by a small orchestra or a harpsichord, sing a succession of recitatives and formal arias to one another; but so expressive is the music that it could survive without words. Contralto Maureen Forrester brings warmth to the stately beauty of the score as Bertarido, the King of the Lombards, a role originally sung by a castrato. But most compelling is the pure control of Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall as Rodelinda. Like Sutherland, she can sing and trill with the clarity of a flute.

BEETHOVEN: FIDELIO (2 LPs; London). Birgit Nilsson's voice nobly recreates Beethoven's larger-than-life, idealized portrait of a wife, his only operatic heroine. As Florestan, Indiana-born Tenor James Mc-Cracken matches Nilsson in strength and tonal beauty. Lorin Maazel, 34, gives dramatic backing to the stars but seems to be afraid of sentiment himself, and conducts the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra and the chorus rather briskly. To hear the score let out in full glory, one must turn to

Otto Klemperer's 1962 version, on Angel. BIRGIT NILSSON SINGS GERMAN OPERA (London). Sumptuous singing. After excerpts from Die Walkiire, Tannhauser, Lohengrin, Der Freischiitz and Fidelio, Nilsson has power to spare, calling the ocean to account in the mighty aria from Weber's Oberon.

CINEMA

SEND ME NO FLOWERS. Married at last, Doris Day and Rock Hudson fluff up their pillow talk for a sprightly spoof about an exurban hypochondriac who thinks his wife's widowhood is at hand. As chief mourner, Tony Randall gets most of the laughs.

THE PUMPKIN EATER. Anne Bancroft portrays with dazzling perception a well-kept British matron who endures three husbands, a swarm of children, and a nervous collapse before she realizes that all's not well in her pumpkin shell.

SE'ANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. Guided by voices from Beyond, a demented medium (Kim Stanley) and her timorous mate (Richard Attenborough) plot a kidnaping in this throat-drying English thriller that casts a spell nearly all the way.

MY FAIR LADY. The movie version of the Lerner-Loewe classic is as big, bountiful and beautiful as ever, with Rex Harrison repeating his Shavian success opposite Audrey Hepburn, who is a passable flower girl and a Lady second to none.

A WOMAN IS A WOMAN. France's Jean-Luc Godard glorifies the offbeat amours of a Parisian stripteaser (Anna Karina) with some gay, giddy improvisations inspired by New Wave esprit and a handful of old Hollywood musicals.

THE SOFT SKIN. The emotional trigonometry of a love triangle occupied by an aging intellectual, his wife, and a pretty airline stewardess is worked out with fine Gallic elegance by Director Francois Truffaut (The 400 Blows), who conquers triteness with pure talent.

WOMAN IN THE DUNES. A man and a woman trapped in a sand pit get down to the gritty substance of Everyman's fate in this luminous, violent allegory by Japanese Director Hiroshi Teshigahara.

TOPKAPI. Men, money and emeralds send Melina Mercouri on a merry chase through Istanbul in Director Jules Dassin's fastest, funniest caper since Rififi.

MARY POPPINS. A magical London nanny (Julie Andrews) whips up some diverting fun in one of those candied, clever neverlands that Walt Disney delights in.

BOOKS

Best Reading

LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Francoise Gilot. Acid oozes from the pen of a discarded mistress who, in nine years with Picasso, served as his model and the mother of two children, only slowly realizing the real role she played in the life of the man who was fond of proclaiming: "As far as I am concerned, there are two kinds of women--goddesses and doormats." Mile. Gilot's account of the master's views on art--his and others'--is illuminating, but best of all are the tart portraits of a monumental ego, made more devastating by the ample use of anecdote to drive her points home.

ARISTOS, by John Fowles. The author of The Collector, a brilliant demonic novel, turns to philosophy. His mentor is ancient Greek Philosopher Heraclitus who also wrote of aristos (the excellent in life), and Fowles shares his love of paradox, his clear-eyed contemplation and, particularly, his eloquence.

THE FAMILY OF PASCUAL DUARTE, by Camilo Jose Cela. Another novel on the Spanish national theme, incest and blood hatred, with the central Spanish symbol, the bullfight. Cela's version excels both in bitterness and narrative control.

A LITTLE LEARNING, by Evelyn Waugh. In the first volume of his autobiography, the great English satirist looks back on his sunny, comfortable childhood. If he does not quite pin down how he gained his mastery of prose and satire, he gives a lively account of his Oxford years and the remarkable companions who were to turn up in his novels.

A MAN IN THE WHEATFIELD, by Robert Laxalt. This spare, original novel about a man who tames snakes and alarms the villagers by his powers becomes an allegory of man's ways of confronting dread.

COLD FRIDAY, by Whittaker Chambers. A reflective book of essays written after the stormy Hiss trials. Included are a vivid picture of intellectual ferment at Columbia in the early '30s, studies on Communism, and warm, charming pastorals inspired by life at the author's Maryland farm where most of the book was written.

MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjold. Almost as if it were some kind of Security Council document, the late U.N. Secretary General described this strange and moving journal as "a white paper concerning my negotiations with God." Hardly that formal, the book portrays in aphorisms, essays, and even haikus Hammarskjold's mystical efforts to resolve agonizing religious doubts.

OF POETRY AND POWER, edited by Erwin G likes and Paul Schwaber. An anthology of poems--some elegiac, some angry--lamenting the death of John F. Kennedy. Certainly among the most valuable of the hundreds of volumes about the President.

THE BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these short stories, the author keeps a tight grip on his own creatures of exurbia: the proletariat of vice presidents, the charming, irrelevant aristocracy, and the winning eccentrics, who compose a kind of swimming-pool society.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)

2. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (3)

3. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (2)

4. Julian, Vidal (5)

5. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carree(4)

6. This Rough Magic, Stewart (6)

7. The Man, Wallace (9)

8. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (8)

9. Armageddon, Uris (7)

10. A Pennant for the Kremlin, Molloy

NONFICTION 1. Reminiscences, MacArthur (1)

2. My Autobiography, Chaplin (2)

3. Markings, Hammarskjold (3)

4. The Italians, Barzini (4)

5. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (7)

6. The Warren Commission Report (5)

7. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (6)

8. Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, Farago

9. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (10)

10. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (9)

-All times E.S.T.

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