They Came to Cordura. Gary Cooper on another western road, but this time the villain is cowardice, and the showdown involves not the fall of a body but the rise of a soul.
Pillow Talk. Flighty feathers fluttering around Hollywood's 1958-59 Box Office Champs Rock Hudson and Doris Day, with almost all the flurry caused by top-notch Comic Tony Randall.
Career. The nerve chart of a stagestruck ex-soldier who goes from cliche to cliche, saved by Anthony Franciosa's tingling performance.
The FBI Story. A quick-triggered account of G-men under fire, somewhat muffled by Agent Jimmy Stewart's home life.
Look Back in Anger. The sneers and snarls of Playwright John Osborne's Angry Young Man (Richard Burton) lead to pity, not fear, but raise prickling questions for the society he damns.
The Magician (Swedish). A fascinating potpourri of murky symbols, eerie images and fleshy scenes by Writer-Director Ingmar Bergman.
North by Northwest. Adman Gary Grant tangles unwittingly with Spy Ringleader James Mason, succumbs to Double Agent Eva Marie Saint, winds up the hero of this thoroughly entertaining Hitchcock-and-bull story.
Diary of Anne Frank. A brilliant argument for human dignity.
TELEVISION
Wed., Nov. 18
U.S. Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).* Jolted by the death of his only son during a prep-school field trip accident, a widower harangues his son's teacher until he finds one of the boy's poems and learns the bitter truth about himself. The Last Autumn stars Pat Hingle and Alexis Smith.
Thurs., Nov. 19
Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Another adaptation of Ernest Hemingway's famed short story, The Killers, featuring World Heavyweight Champion Ingemar Johansson as the ex-heavyweight fighter and Dane Clark as a gunman hired to do him in.
Fri., Nov. 20
Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An all-Gershwin show with Ella Fitzgerald, Vic Damone, Marge and Gower Champion, Polly Bergen.
Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The rise and fall of Murder, Inc., The Lepke Case casts Joseph Weisman as Louis "Lepke" Buchalter. With Lloyd Bridges and Sam Jaffe, and Gossipmonger Walter Winchell playing himself.
Sat., Nov. 21
John Gunther's High Road (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). How the people of Desphina, Greece, and Quintay, Chile, band together to avoid starvation.
Pontiac Star Parade (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Song-and-Dance Men Gene Kelly and Donald O'Connor, with an assist from Carol (West Side Story) Lawrence, jive it up on The Gene Kelly Show. Color.
Sun., Nov. 22
Face the Nation (CBS, 12:30-1 p.m.). Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller will field questions tossed by CBS Correspondent Stuart Novins and a panel of newsmen.
Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic (CBS, 5-6 p.m.). Last September's Venice concert on film, Lenny will play, conduct and analyze Mozart's Piano Concerto in G Major.
Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Filmed biography of Hermann Goering, Adolf Hitler's top accomplice. Sir David Maxwell Fyfe, who prosecuted Goering at the Nuremberg trials, will help out Narrator Walter Cronkite.
Our American Heritage (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). Inventor Eli Whitney's struggles and achievements get full hearing in The Practical Dreamer, starring Burgess Meredith. Color.
Tues., Nov. 24
Ford Startime (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). For a musical salute to Ethel Merman's career, Merman on Broadway collected Tab Hunter, Fess Parker and Tom Poston. Color.
THEATER
On Broadway
The Miracle Worker. Anne Bancroft and twelve-year-old Patty Duke bring such intensity and skill to Child Helen Keller's terrifying but triumphant fight for light that the show, despite its faults, is frequently great theater.
Heartbreak House. Shaw's picture of Europe's pre-World War I leisure class, if wordy and sprawling, is also witty and brilliant, while several members of a cast that includes Maurice Evans, Pamela Brown, Diana Wynyard are brilliant too.
Take Me Along. A nostalgic mood musical made from O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness! and made the brighter by Jackie Gleason, Walter Pidgeon, Eileen Herlie and Robert Morse.
At the Drop of a Hat. With perfect timing and teamwork, England's Joke-and-Jingle Experts Michael Flanders and Donald Swann offer the season's most sophisticated fun.
Among the holdovers from last season, A Raisin in the Sun still peers with tenderness into Chicago's Harlem; La Plume de Ma Tante maintains its Gallic gallop; My Fair Lady and The Music Man top the list of musical comedies.
BOOKS
Best Reading
In the Days of McKinley, by Margaret Leech. Pulitzer Prizewinner Leech's thoughtful recollection of a widely loved President who remained as colorless as a leader as he was gentle as a man.
The Anger of Achilles: Homer's Iliad, translated by Robert Graves. The most charming translation in English since Pope's of the classic poem, interpreted by Graves as satirical entertainment.
James Joyce, by Richard Ellmann. A Ulyssean portrait, fashioned out of minute detail, of the purposefully enigmatic author, here demystified but not debunked.
Krishna Fluting, by JOhn Berry. An exotic, erotic, comic novel of Quakers in India, by a writer who seldom turns a mere journeyman's line.
The Treatment Man, by William Wiegand. A skillfully written novel about a prison riot that is also a prickly parable of power and evil.
The Mansion, by William Faulkner. The final installment of a wild, grim-comic trilogy (its predecessors: The Hamlet, The Town), in which Flem, the worst of the Snopeses, gets his due in death.
Edison, by Matthew Josephson. A brisk biography of the man who became a world symbol of Yankee ingenuity.
The Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. A clear and perceptive account of Spain's great naval campaign against Elizabeth's England, and of the stormy political and religious climate in which it was fought.
The Stones of Florence, by Mary McCarthy. An account of a great city's past calamities and surviving glories, written in some of the year's most readable prose.
Poems, by Boris Pasternak, translated by Eugene M. Kayden. Though the language curtain sometimes reduces the poet's lyric song to schoolboy singsong, this translation permits more than a glint of Pasternak's genius to filter through.
The Return of H*Y*M*A*N K*A*P*L*A*N, by Leo Rosten. The redoubtable dunce of the American Night Preparatory School for Adults returns to take his place in the folklore of immigrant life.
The Memoirs of Casanova, Vol. II, translated by Arthur Machen. The 18th century's most dedicated amoralist gives an incomparable picture of the life of his age.
The Rack, by A. E. Ellis. The hero of this chilling novel fights to remain alive in a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium.
Orde Wingate, by Christopher Sykes. An able, densely written biography of the leader of Burma's jungle-fighting Chindits during World War II.
Beyond Survival, by Max Ways. A careful, concerned investigation into U.S. foreign policy, which Author Ways considers "headed for a dead end."
Act One, by Moss Hart. Famed Playwright Hart is a smash hit in a new role --that of autobiographer.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. Advise and Consent, Drury (1) *
2. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (6)
3. Exodus, Uris (4)
4. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (3)
5. The War Lover, Hersey (2)
6. The Devil's Advocate, West (5)
7. The Darkness and the Dawn, Costain
8. Poor No More, Ruark (7)
9. The Thirteenth Apostle, Vale (9)
10. The Breaking Point, Du Maurier
NONFICTION
1. Act One, Hart (1)
2. The Status Seekers, Packard (2)
3 This Is My God, Wouk (5)
4. For 2-c- Plain, Golden (3)
5. Folk Medicine, Jarvis (4)
6. The Elements of Style, Strunk and White (7)
7. The Armada, Mattingly (8)
8. How I Turned $1,000 into $1,000,000 in Real Estate, Nickerson
9. Groucho and Me, Marx (6)
10. Candidates 1960, Sevareid
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