Wednesday, January 20 THE PRESIDENTIAL INAUGURATION (NBC and CBS, 10 a.m. to end; ABC, 10:30 a.m. to end).* Continuous coverage of he ceremonies. Highlights will be shown on NBC, 7:30-8 p.m., and ABC, 10:30-11 p.m. Also, coverage of the four inaugural balls (NBC, 11:15 p.m.-l a.m.; CBS, [1:15 p.m.-midnight).

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES NBC, 8-11 p.m.). Yul Brynner, Maria Schell and Claire Bloom in Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov (1958). Color.

Friday, January 22 F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Roosevelt becomes a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932.

Saturday, January 23

THE KING FAMILY (ABC, 7:30-8:30p.m.). Premiere of a new music hour featuring the six singing King sisters and 30 other singing members of their family.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Katharine Hepburn and Burt Lancaster in The Rainmaker (1956).

Sunday, January 24

DISCOVERY (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-12 noon). The two Russians who conducted Discovery's tour of Moscow last year now visit New York and Washington.

ISSUES & ANSWERS (ABC, 1:30-2 p.m.). Henry R. Luce discusses the influence of the press on U.S. Government policies.

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). Los Angeles Invitational Indoor track meet and Men's All-Star bowling finals from Philadelphia.

MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Senator Everett M. Dirksen, R., Illinois, Senate minority leader. Color.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The story of Nazi Leader Rudolf Hess's flight to Scotland in 1941, including interviews with the farmer who found him and the psychiatrist who treated him.

BRANDED (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Premiere of a new series starring Chuck Connors as a West Pointer who is unjustly discharged from the Army for cowardice.

Monday, January 25 THE STATELY GHOSTS OF ENGLAND (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). British Actress Margaret Rutherford and Husband Stringer Davis tour three of the island's most famous haunted mansions: Longleat, Salisbury Hall and Beaulieu.

Tuesday, January 26 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A history of the twelve turbulent years from the meeting of the States-General in 1789 through the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, narrated by Michael Redgrave. Color.

THEATER

On Broadway PETERPAT, by Enid Rudd. In olden days man fought Tyrannosaurus rex; nowadays he battles Tyrannosaurus regina --his wife. With Dick Shawn and Joan Hackett deftly handling the key roles, this wry, observant comedy argues with cogency that marriage is funny as hell.

TINY ALICE, by Edward Albee. Life is a many-symboled thing in this opaque play of the post-Christian ethos. Paradoxically, Alices only emotional vitality stems from Christian symbols and experience. The language is sometimes eloquent but often merely prolix. The cast, headed by John Gielgud, is a marvel.

HUGHIE. Jason Robards and Eugene O'Neill prove incomparable stagemates once again in this engrossing and poignant study of a man's need for a false mirror image wherein he may see himself as he is not.

POOR RICHARD does not register as many laughs as Mary, Mary, but Jean Kerr again produces the wit that is instant wisdom. Alan Bates plays the kind of mixed-up wanderer that women yearn to straighten out and anchor.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. In Bill Manhoff's sly interpretation of the mating ritual, a saucy prostitute (Diana Sands) runs circles around a stuffy book clerk (Alan Alda). To his horror and the play goer's amusement, he helps her to trap him.

LUV. Mike Nichols, a matchless director of comedy, contributes mightily to Schisgal's lie-down-on-my-couch-and-let- me-tell-you-all-about-myself farce. Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin keep the humor quotient high.

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Joan Littlewood guides her group of Pierrots and Pierrettes through the Brechtian woods of song and savagery in a bitterly funny dissection of World War I.

Off Broadway

BABES IN THE WOOD. Rick Besoyan's musical spoof of A Midsummer Night's Dream mimics Gilbert and Sullivan, nineteen-thirtyish musicals and burlesque to provide a diverting trifle for playgoers.

THE SLAVE and THE TOILET argue that the Negro wants not so much to be equal as to be able to retaliate. LeRoi Jones's latest contributions to the theater of cruelty are one-act spasms of fury.

RECORDS

Spoken

SHAKESPEARE: OTHELLO (4 LPs; RCA Victor). Sir Laurence Olivier is an even greater Othello on records than onstage. While at times he seems physically a caricature of the Moor in the celebrated English production, his voice is magnificently attuned to the part. At the outset, as the all-conquering military hero, Olivier speaks in deep, commanding tones; then, as lago's poison begins to work, and Othello's rich confidence drains away, his voice alone proclaims his tortured soul, burning "like the mines of sulphur. "Frank Finlay's lago is not so much a demonic force as a compulsive troublemaker, making Othello's ruin all the harder to bear.

WINSTON S. CHURCHILL: HIS MEMOIRS AND HIS SPEECHES, 1918 TO 1945 (12 LPs; London). The price of the package is $100; the value is incalculable. On paper, the great Churchillian cadences still stir heroic memories. Hearing them again stirs the blood, and draws tears as well. In addition to the greatest oratory of our times, the set contains excerpts from Churchill's Memoirs of the Second World War that he recorded 16 years ago, when his voice was still deep and sonorous. He has also recorded some of the wartime speeches to the House of Commons, notably The Finest Hour ("Let us there forebrace ourselves to our duty"), that were not taped when he originally delivered them. His last address on these recordings is This Is Your Victory, the triumphal, grateful oration that was almost drowned out by the cheering crowds in Whitehall on May 8, 1945. The recordings are permanent proof of John F. Kennedy's verdict: Churchill "mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."

EURIPIDES: MEDEA (2 LPs; Caedmon). Dame Judith Anderson's portrayal of the barbaric princess is now preserved in all its chilling horror. Classic Greek tragedy, with a minimum of action and the use of a chorus to forward the plot, is ideal for recording. The records actually deepen the delineation of Medea, for the chorus at times sounds like voices bickering in her tormented brain. Anthony Quayle makes a fine, feckless Jason.

BECKET (RCA Victor). Some movies should be seen and not heard. But Paramount's version of Jean Anouilh's play needs no screen to project its thoughtful dialogue and the two magnificent voices that deliver it: Peter O'Toole's as King Henry II, Richard Burton's as the Arch bishop of Canterbury.

PATIENCE AND FORTITUDE! REMINISCENCES OF LA GUARDIA (National Voice Library at Michigan State U.). An affectionate tribute to the Little Flower by U.S. Senator Paul Douglas, who calls La Guardia "a cross between St. George and St. Vitus," plus the mayor's own summary of his New York City administration when he left office in 1945, and some homely snippets from his weekly city hall broadcasts, including one of his memorable comic-strip readings during the city's 1945 newspaper strike.

CINEMA

NOTHING BUT A MAN. The anguishing reality of how it feels to be inside the skin of an American Negro is forcefully conveyed in the story of a proud but imperfect man (Ivan Dixon) who tries to run away from the whites, his wife and his own color.

MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. A slut's prog ress from a bawdyhouse to a legal bed takes 20 years, but time passes quickly-- thanks to Director Vittorio De Sica (Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow) and his stars, Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni, who play the longtime lovers with unbridled Neapolitan brio.

ZORBA THE GREEK. Like the novel by Nikos Kazantzakis, this cinemadaptation by Michael Cacoyannis raises a roaring amen to life as it is, and a lusty cheer for the man who dares to live it to hell and gone. The man is portrayed by Anthony Quinn with noble savagery and goatish gusto.

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. All the soulful cliches of young love shimmer with freshness in this splashy, sparkling French musical by Director Jacques Demy.

GOLDFINGER. James Bond again, smoothly travestied by Sean Connery, who destroys criminals and devastates their ladies but preserves Fort Knox's gold.

TO LOVE. More sex in Sweden, but this time sex is satirized in the sappy story of a hot-blooded travel agent (Zbigniew Cybulski) who demonstrates to a merry widow (Harriet Andersson) that the best kind of travel is abroad.

MY FAIR LADY. G. B. Shaw's classic Cinderella story, set to music by Lerner and Loewe and dressed up for the screen in Cecil Beaton's eye-popping finery.

BOOKS Best Reading

JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. The horror and tragedy of the God-haunted cleric who was English literature's most powerful ironist, consummately examined by a noted contemporary British satirist.

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. A series of bittersweet, Boccaccio-like fables of love, stylishly narrated by a philandering journalist who believes that "with enough beds, there might be no battlefields."

LOVE AND REVOLUTION, by Max East man. An adventure-filled autobiography by the first of the Red-struck young U.S. intellectuals to comprehend the terrors and cruelties of Stalin's Russia. East man's only regret at 82 is that he didn't crowd even more into his life.

A COVENANT WITH DEATH, by Stephen Becker. A flavorful tale of a Mexican border state in the '20s, and the legal is sue of whether a man about to hang for a murder he did not commit should be punished for killing the hangman.

RUSSIA AT WAR, 1941-45, by Alexander Werth. The reader has to dig for them, but there are rewards in Werth's vast work, the first complete history in English of this titanic struggle.

FRIEDA LAWRENCE, edited by E. W. Tedlock Jr. In the correspondence and other collected writings of his wife, D. H. Lawrence is pictured more as a prig than an immoralist, she as a lesser but fascinating Lawrencian heroine.

THE FOUNDING FATHER, by Richard Whalen. This authoritative biography of Joseph P. Kennedy describes the building of his fortune and illustrious dynasty.

THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. The fourth recent collection of O'Hara's short stories shows a consistent excellence seldom achieved by any writer. In his tales of well-off, middle-aged people, the novelist defines his spiritual habitat as clearly as Faulkner staked out Yoknapatawpha.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week) 2. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss ( 2 ) 3. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (7) 4. This Rough Magic, Stewart ( 4 ) 5. The Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara ( 5 ) 6. The Man, Wallace ( 3 ) 7. You Only Live Twice, Fleming ( 10 ) 8. Julian, Vidal ( 6 ) 9. Armageddon, Uris ( 9 ) 10. The Explorer, Keyes

NONFICTION 1. Markings, Hammarskjold (1) 2. Reminiscences, MacArthur (2) 3. The Italians, Barzini (3) 4. My Autobiography, Chaplin (4) 5. The Kennedy Years, the New York Times and Viking Press (5) 6. The Kennedy Wit, Adler ( 7 ) 7. The Words, Sartre ( 6 ) 8. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake 9. The Future of Man, De Chardin ( 9 ) 10. Sixpence in Her Shoe, McGinley ( 10 )

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