Friday, March 5

F.D.R. (ABC, 9:30-10 p.m.).* The wave of labor unrest following Roosevelt's inauguration, with a script by Quentin Reynolds, and Charlton (BenHur) Heston as the voice of F.D.R.

Saturday, March 6

ABC'S WIDE WORLD OF SPORTS (ABC, 5-6:30 p.m.). The National Ski Jumping Championships from Berlin, N.H., and the World Figure Skating Championships from Colorado Springs.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). MGM's 1949 film Battleground, in which Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, U.S. Senator George Murphy and a host of other names out of the old M-G-M stable re-fight the Battle of the Bulge.

GUNSMOKE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). In an episode called "Thursday's Child," shy, skittish Jean Arthur makes her TV debut, her first performance anywhere since 1954.

Sunday, March 7

CBS SPORTS SPECTACULAR (CBS, 2:30-4 p.m.). The Big Ten Diving and Swimming Championships from Madison, Wis.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). An account of the work of 54-year-old Annie Wauneka, who has devoted her life to improving the health of her fellow Navajos.

PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7 p.m.). Henry Jones stars as Secretary of State Hamilton Fish who in 1869 struggled to keep the U.S. out of war with Spain over Cuba.

WORLD FIGURE SKATING CHAMPIONSHIPS (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The Colorado Springs show, continued.

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). Ella Fitzgerald is among the guests.

SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9 p.m.-12:30 a.m.). Stanley Kramer's Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) with Spencer Tracy as a judge, Richard Widmark for the prosecution and Maximilian Schell for the defense.

THE ROGUES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Marcel (Charles Boyer) goes to Paris to investigate the death of a friend, finds himself being stalked in "Pigeons of Paris."

Monday, March 8

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Elsa Lanchester plays a mad Thrush scientist who tries to steal U.N.C.L.E. secrets.

Tuesday, March 9

THE POPE AND THE VATICAN (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A special report documenting Pope Paul VI's activities as well as current trends in the Roman Catholic Church.

THEATER

On Broadway

ALL IN GOOD TIME. Bill Naughton has fashioned a tenderly perceptive human comedy out of a single, obvious and slightly quaint-sounding joke: the inability of a pair of provincial newlyweds to consummate their marriage. Where Naughton and a comic wonder of a cast succeed is in bringing back the theater's vanishing breed--real people.

TINY ALICE. Everyone's afraid of Alice in Edward Albee's brainteaser, though no one seems to know who she is. John Gielgud and Irene Worth are excellent in the respective roles of a lay brother and the world's richest woman.

THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT. A raucous contest between the flesh and the spirit has riotous results. Diana Sands and Alan Alda are delightful as a battling prostitute and book clerk.

LUV. Three characters take a bath in a river of self-pitying tears. The talents of Author Murray Schisgal, Director Mike Nichols, and Actors Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin make the immersion hilarious.

Off Broadway

A VIEW FROM THE BRIDGE. Tension, desperation and ultimate tragedy invade the home of a longshoreman, his wife and the niece whom he loves incestuously. Taut direction and an extremely able cast revivify this ten-year-old Arthur Miller drama.

WAR AND PEACE. Though it is never easy to shrink an oak back into an acorn, Phoenix Theater's production of the mammoth Tolstoy classic is surprisingly dramatic. In this play, and in an alternate offering, Man and Superman, individual performances are submerged in beautiful ensemble playing.

THE SLAVE and THE TOILET. The problem --interracial conflict--is timeless; the expressions of hate and violence in LeRoi Jones's two one-acters are venomously attuned to the present.

RECORDS

Pop IPs

GOLDFINGER (United Artists). 007 would wince at the thought, but the movie sound track is the latest music-to-do-homework-by. Besides the weird, wild title song belted out by Shirley Bassey, there are aeons of suspenseful drum rolls, some instrumental shivering, and what seems to be a stuck phonograph needle during the rat-a-tat-tat Dawn Raid on Fort Knox. The performance has a raw vitality, injected by the composer-conductor John Barry, a rock-'n'-roll maestro before he boarded the Bondwagon.

BEATLES '65 (Capitol). "I'm a loser," they wail--all the way to the bank. Their fifth album to become No. 1 U.S. bestseller contains seven fabmost new songs by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.

THE RIGHTEOUS BROTHERS: YOU'VE LOST THAT LOVIN' FEELING (Philles). The album leads with the latest hit by Songwriter Phil Spector, whose post-pubescent pop rarely misses. But the versatile Righteous Brothers go into some other grooves as well--a frenzied, jazzy Ray Charles number, What'd I Say, a deep rumbling Old Man River (Bill's solo), and a simmering hot Summertime, with Bob wailing like a soprano banshee.

THE SUPREMES: WHERE DID OUR LOVE GO (Motown). Now everyone wants the Detroit Sound, which lodges on a rock between Nashville and the Mersey. At the moment the pride of Detroit are the Supremes, three thrushes who have a touch of gospel and can get away with lyrics like "I'm standing at the crossroads of love."

SAM COOKE: SHAKE (RCA Victor). This is the ninth LP by Sam Cooke to be issued since he was shot to death last December. Shake, written by Sam himself, is a posthumous single hit and about describes Side 1. Mood is the key to Side 2, as in I'm in the Mood for Love and his other current bestseller, A Change Is Gonna Come.

PETULA CLARK: DOWNTOWN (Warner Bros.) Compared with most rock-'n'-roll singers, England's Petula Clark has a voice of pale, rustling silk, but its summons Downtown has come over the transistors clearly and ceaselessly for two months. Her other songs (In Love, Be Good to Me) are also genteel. Pretty, blonde Pet-choo-la hardly needs to raise her voice: she has already sold more than 20 million records in Europe.

THE MONSTER ALBUM (United Artists). There seems to be an underground audience for monster songs, which feature sepulchral voices, shrieks and sobs, all to a wicked beat. The Monster Mash ("It was a graveyard smash") is a standard by now, and the Werewolf Waltz and Dracula Drag are real ghoul.

CINEMA

RED DESERT. Displaying a painterly sense of color, Italian Director Michelangelo Antonioni (L'Avventura, La Notte) daringly raids the spectrum to explore the neurosis of an engineer's young wife (Monica Vitti) whose problems seem aggravated by her environment--a wasteland created by heavy industry in the city of Ravenna. But Antonioni's inferno is often more exciting than its inhabitants.

JOY HOUSE. Director Rene Clement (Purple Noon) mixes chills with chuckles in an absurd but enjoyable thriller about a Gallic gigolo (Alain Delon) who eludes assassins on the Riviera, only to fall into the clutches of a coltish femme fatale (Jane Fonda).

TRIAL OF JOAN OF ARC. This stark and timeless historical drama by Director Robert Bresson is based on actual transcripts of Joan's heresy trial, preserved in French archives since 1431.

HOW TO MURDER YOUR WIFE. As a carefree bachelor who gets waylaid into matrimony, Jack Lemmon pleads the case for uxoricide, though his manservant (Terry-Thomas) makes the crime nonsensical, and his scrumptious lady (Italy's Virna Lisi) makes it practically unthinkable.

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG. Young love's spring song fades gradually to a swan song in this vivid, sadly cynical French musical by Director Jacques Demy.

MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni pour all their charm and vitality into a hilarious old tearjerker about a home-loving harlot who parlays a few crumbs of love into a wedding feast.

NOTHING BUT A MAN. This forceful drama gets under the skin of a troubled young American Negro (Ivan Dixon) who resents being black in a white world.

GOLDFINGER. Ian Fleming's girl-and gadget-happy Agent 007--alias James Bond, alias Actor Sean Connery--brilliantly foils a plot to take Fort Knox off the gold standard.

SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. A very mad, very English, very nearly preposterous melodrama about a kidnaping masterminded by an unhappy medium, played with blood-chilling conviction by American Actress Kim Stanley.

MY FAIR LADY. The bountiful classic by Lerner and Loewe out of G. B. Shaw, with Audrey Hepburn as the cockney guttersnipe who learns social graces from Rex Harrison, a masterly professor indeed.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE NEGRO COWBOYS, by Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones. Probably no group of slaves became emancipated more quickly or completely than the 5,000 Negro cowboys who rode the ranges from Texas to Montana, many earning fame and fortune. The authors' lively prose and vivid detail help fill in one of the most notable gaps in U.S. history.

PEOPLE OF THE BOOK, by David Stacton. Author Stacton stands alone for the wit and learning that he lavishes on his historical novels. Though his plot sometimes gets lost in this tale of the Thirty Years' War, his prose has never been better.

MERIWETHER LEWIS, by Richard Dillon. An absorbing biography of the gifted young Virginian whom Jefferson sent out to explore the Louisiana territory. With William Clark, Lewis showed the way west--but he could never readjust to civilization. Three years after his triumphant return, he died under mysterious circumstances, a penniless alcoholic.

THE WHITSUN WEDDINGS, by Philip Larkin. A new collection representing the mature work of England's best living poet. As true and fine as his earlier work, these poems reflect a larger, yet highly personal view of the human condition.

THE ORDWAYS, by William Humphrey. Thanks to the lively comic vision of Novelist Humphrey (Home from the Hill), the Ordways of East Texas, living and dead, make a family tree of Faulknerian dimensions.

JONATHAN SWIFT, by Nigel Dennis. An informed and fair biography of the bitter dean who in Irish exile wrote the most brilliant satires in the English language.

THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS OF JEAN MACAQUE, by Stuart Cloete. Having written novels about the Boer War that fell short of Churchill's adventures, Cloete now busts loose with the funny story of a philandering journalist who lives it up each day trying to stave off tomorrow.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)

2. Funeral in Berlin, Deighton (4)

3. The Man, Wallace (3)

4. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (5)

5. Hurry Sundown, Gilden (6)

6. The Horse Knows the Way, O'Hara (2)

7. Hotel, Hailey

8. A Covenant with Death, Becker (10)

9. Legend of the Seventh Virgin, Holt (7)

10. The Ordways, Humphrey

NONFICTION

1. Markings, Hammarskjoeld (1)

2. The Founding Father, Whalen (3)

3. The Italians, Barzini (4)

4. Reminiscences, MacArthur (2)

5. Queen Victoria, Longford (5)

6. Life with Picasso, Gilot and Lake (8)

7. How to Be a Jewish Mother, Greenburg

8. The Words, Sartre (6)

9. The Kennedy Years, The New York Times and Viking Press

10. My Autobiography, Chaplin (9)

*All times E.S.T.

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