CINEMA

Pillow Talk. The two box-office champions of the 1958-59 season (Rock Hudson and Doris Day) team up in a medium-fiuffy comedy whose greatest asset is Supporting Player Tony Randall, one of the funniest young men in the movies.

Career. Anthony Franciosa does a considerable job of acting as the sad young hero of this soap opera about show business, but the customer may be left wondering why the theater so often presents itself as one of the bleeding arts.

The FBI Story. The great names of American crime cross the screen like targets in a shooting gallery. Despite the soul-searing domestic difficulties of Special Agent Jimmy Stewart, the picture's documentary air is always absorbing.

Look Back in Anger. John Osborne's dramatic milestone about a young English outcast who actually looks back in madness more than anger, filmed in an atmosphere that suggests a dripping winter morning in the English Midlands.

The Magician (Swedish). The latest witch's brew--mesmerism, symbolism and sex--concocted by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman, one of the most intriguing moviemakers now at work.

The Man Upstairs. A topnotch thriller about a demented scientist.

North by Northwest. Hitchcock masterminding Eva Marie Saint, James Mason and a squad of spies who should know better than to try to do away with Gary Grant. Thoroughly entertaining.

The Diary of Anne Frank. One of Hollywood's rare masterpieces.

TELEVISION

Wed., Oct. 28

Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-A documentary drama, 35 Rue du Marche, recalls the devotion of a Belgian priest, Nobel Prizewinning Dominique Georges Henri Pire, to his self-imoosed task: providing homes for European D.P.s.

Thurs., Oct. 29

The Betty Button Show (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Betty and her comic guest, Jules Munshin, in a musical show called Who Killed Vaudeville.

Staccato (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). Johnny sniffs the scent of a bunko artist at work as soon as the good little girl donates .all her cash to a mission house.

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). G. B. Shaw's class-conscious comedy, Mix-alliance, with a classy cast: Claire Bloom, Siobhan McKenna, Rod Taylor and Robert Morley.

Fri., Oct. 30

The Moon and Sixpence (NBC, 8-9:30 p.m.). Sir Laurence Olivier makes Ms American TV debut in Somerset Maugham's modern classic. With a superb supporting cast, including Judith Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Jessica Tandy and Cyril Cusak. Color.

Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). In his first straight dramatic role in 17 years, Desi himself joins the cast of So Tender, So Profane, plays the sorely tried brother of a trollop.

77 Sunset Strip (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). A day at the races gets this kooky crew involved in a fancy fix and a brief fling with attempted murder.

Sat., Oct. 31

Thoroughbred Race of the Week (CBS, 4-4:30 p.m.). The Garden State, world's richest (about $300,000) race.

John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). A trip to Mysore, India, for a Wild Elephant Roundup.

Sun., Nov. 1

Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Psychologists at the University of Wisconsin prove that they can measure Mother Love --provided one of the lovers is a baby rhesus monkey and the "mother" (any object at all) is soft and cuddly.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Suicide Run to Murmansk, the most dangerous convoy trip of World War II, is revisited on film by some men who were there when the going was tough. Guests include former Foreign Correspondent Walter Kerr; David Sinclair, a British sea captain; Lord Beaverbrook: and a U.S. Navy survivor, Charles M. Ulrich.

Mon., Nov. 2

Peter Gunn (NBC, 9-9:30 p.m.). The bad guys take potshots at The Feathered Doll from a carnival.

Tues., Nov. 3

Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Dean Martin, Mickey Rooney, Frank Sinatra and a 22-tune medley of Rodgers and Hart hits on the Dean Martin Show. Color.

THEATER

At the Drop of a Hat. A highly engaging evening with two Englishmen who sing and chatter with the exquisite timing of the solar system and the teamwork of the Lunts.

Much Ado About Nothing. Delightful subplotters John Gielgud and Margaret Leighton make the play's dull main plot well worth sitting through.

A Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family fights for its "pinch of dignity" amid tears and laughter.

La Plume de Ma Tante. An acrobatty French revue that leaves English and the audience happily fractured.

My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Redhead and Flower Drum Song are a memorable and durable quartet of musicals.

BOOKS

Best Reading

The Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. A clear, exciting account of one of history's most crucial and inept naval campaigns, and of the stormy political climate in which it was fought.

The Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. Without sentiment or solemn artiness, the author describes the city that "invented" the Renaissance.

Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. The delicate fusion of sound and sense is sometimes ob scured in translation, but the greatness of the poet shows through.

The Return of H*Y*M*K*A*N*K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The famed immigrant warrior against the English language is back with the same old tsplit infinitifs and dobble nagetifs, and he is just as funny as ever.

The Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. In the best English translation to date, the grand old libertine tells of adventures that would reduce today's flanneled philanderers to cardiac cases.

The Devil's Advocate, by Morris West. An effective novel about a cancer-stricken priest who finds his first (and last) contact with life as he turns spiritual detective, investigates the lives of a possible saint and of the sinners involved in his death.

A Natural History of New York City, by John Kieran. A naturalist's engaging account of how nature survives in the asphalt jungle.

Observations, by Richard Avedon. Portraits of the famous, some impudent, some cruel, by a noted fashion photographer, with a commentary by Truman Capote.

The Rack, by A. E. Ellis. A chilling novel of a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium in which hope dies quickly, the patients more slowly.

Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. A first-rate biography of the stumpy, tempestuous jungle fighter who became World War II's Lion of Burma.

Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. What the U.S. needs, the author argues in a trenchant review of the nation's foreign policy, is a coherent public philosophy.

Act One, by Moss Hart. A playwright's fascinating, immensely entertaining account of his agitated life in the theater.

The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, by Vladimir Nabokov. An early, excellent Nabokov novel in which a dead author's brother puzzles over disturbing matters of art and identity.

This Is Mv God, by Herman Wouk. The author, an Orthodox Jew and a bestselling novelist (Marjorie Morningstar), provides a clear, simple guide to his faith.

Best Sellers

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

2. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)

3. Exodus, Uris (2)

4. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5)

5. The War Lover, Hersey (8)

6. The Cave, Warren (4)

7. The Thirteenth Apostle, Vale (9)

8. Station Wagon in Spain, Keyes

9. The Lotus Eaters, Green

10. New Face in the Mirror, Dayan

NONFICTION

1. Act One, Hart (3)

2. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4)

3. The Status Seekers, Packard (1)

4. For 2 Plain, Golden (2)

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

6. This Is My God, Wouk (7)

7. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson (5)

8. Groucho and Me. Marx (10)

9. The Ape in Me, Skinner

10. Mine Enemy Grows Older, King (9)

-Position on last week's list.

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