Wednesday, September 25
CBS REPORTS: MCNAMARA AND THE PENTAGON (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* The controversial Secretary of Defense discusses the changes he has brought to the Defense Department.
GLYNIS (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). In the premiere episode of a new series, Glynis Johns as a mystery writer investigates her lawyer husband's client, whom she suspects of being a murderer.
BEN CASEY (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Sammy Davis Jr. portrays a baseball hero who loses an eye.
THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Premiere of Kaye's first regular TV show. Jackie Cooper joins him in songs, dances and sketches.
Thursday, September 26
THE WASHINGTON NEGRO (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Chet Huntley reports on the racial situation of the nation's capital, where the large Negro population is predominantly middleclass.
THE NURSES (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The dramatic series opens a new season with the story of a drug-addicted nurse (Susan Oliver).
Friday, September 27
THE GREAT ADVENTURE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Premiere of a dramatic series based on events in American history. The opener relates the first sinking of a ship by a submarine (during the Civil War). Jackie Cooper and James MacArthur star as two Confederate officers.
BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). An unidentified tycoon is found murdered. Ann Harding, Dina Merrill and Jim Backus guest star.
CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Season premiere of a new Bob Hope series. Guests are Dean Martin, James Garner, Barbra Streisand, Tuesday Weld and Les Brown and his Band of Renown.
THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Oscar Levant returns to the Paar podium, along with Gordon and Sheila MacRae. Color.
Saturday, September 28
THE NEW PHIL SILVERS SHOW (CBS, 8:30-9 p.m.). Phil Silvers stars as a factory foreman whose job is threatened by an electronic computer.
Sunday, September 29
MY FAVORITE MARTIAN (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.). Newspaper Reporter Tim O'Hara (Bill Bixby) stumbles upon a Martian who has crash-landed on earth in the premiere of a new comedy series.
ARREST AND TRIAL (ABC, 8:30-10 p.m.). A soldier faces a court-martial for larceny and murder.
THE JUDY GARLAND SHOW (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). Debut of the singer's first regular TV variety show.
ABC NEWS SPECIAL (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). The leading stories of the week.
Monday, September 30
MONDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 7:30-9:30 p.m.). "Executive Suite," star ring William Holden and June Allyson, watches five vice presidents vie for the presidency of a giant corporation.
HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Premiere of a new series about the film industry. Director John Huston narrates the first episode, a portrait of the late Humphrey Bogart.
Tuesday, October 1
COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Ex-Fighting Champion Rocky Marciano makes his acting debut as a G.I., as two German soldiers attempt to infiltrate American lines.
MR. NOVAK (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A 16-year-old blind student falls in love with Teacher Novak.
THE RICHARD BOONE SHOW (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Richard Boone stars as a disillusioned hillbilly banjo player who finds love and true happiness back home in the hills.
APOLLO (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A comprehensive report on the U.S.'s manned moon project, prepared with the cooperation of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Color.
CINEMA
THE MUSIC ROOM. The story of an old baron who squanders his wealth on private musicales has been transformed by India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy) into a subtle and poignant tragedy of pride.
THE SUITOR. This nutty French nougat stars Pierre Etaix, who is also its director and screenwriter. Etaix's grimly determined girl-chasing, his gazelle-like caperings, his soulful dead-pantomiming are hilarious, and the whole picture has about it a zany, silent-movie look--as if it had been made at the old Hal Roach studios under the direction of a madman.
WIVES AND LOVERS. Van Johnson, Janet Leigh, Martha Hyer and Shelley Winters toss around this ball of connubial catnip in sassy style, having fun with the lines but worrying none too much about the deeper meanings of the plot.
THE LEOPARD. Burt Lancaster, Claudia Cardinale and Alain Delon star in this excellent Italian film about the fortunes of a fading princely household in 19th century Sicily. Luchino Visconti (Rocco and His Brothers) is the director.
LORD OF THE FLIES. With scarcely a nod to Novelist William Golding's chilling allegory of the essential evil in man's nature, the producers end up with little more than a scary adventure story about a band of castaway boys on a desert island.
THE GREAT ESCAPE. James Garner, Steve McQueen and an excellent all-male cast in an exciting and absorbingly detailed story about a wholesale breakout from a Nazi P.W. camp.
BOOKS
Best Reading
THE LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The poet and the anthologist corresponded for 46 years. Frost, a man who could not write a note for the milkman without giving it his own distinctive twist, writes of recurring tragedy in his family, his endless gripes with little worlds of editors, politicians and educators, his deep distrust of liberalism, and his fierce judgments of his fellow writers.
THE GIRLS OF SLENDER MEANS, by Muriel Spark. This brief comic novel concerns seven young ladies who live at the May of Teck Club in London right after the war. Though penniless and threadbare, they plot to acquire love and money (in that order) with the determination and cunning of the girls in The Best of Everything.
TRAVELS IN AND FAR OUT, by Anthony Carson. An engaging, if impractical, travel book by the most freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking tourist guide ever to enter the trade. Carson writes of his adventures from Wales to New Zealand with a gift for simple anecdote and occasionally a great lie.
THE GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Vassar's cleverest alumna tells all about eight girls who might have graduated with her into the confused Depression world of New York in the '30s. Though it is brilliantly fictionalized sociology of a sad period, Vassar may think of it as a class portrait by Charles Addams.
THE UNMENTIONABLE NECHAEV, by Michael Prawdin. Serge Nechaev was the student terrorist whom the Czar imprisoned and whom the Soviets would like to forget. This youthful fanatic became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and he devised the bleak dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model for Lenin's Bolshevik Party.
VISIONS OF GERARD, by Jack Kerouac. With this story of a big, noisy family of French Canadians in the mill town of Lowell, Mass., Beat Author Jack Kerouac joins J. D. Salinger in the small company of current writers who suggest that a child can be not only innocent but a prism of grace.
THE LEARNING TREE, by Gordon Parks. Like Author Parks, the hero of this novel grew up in the Negro part of a small town in Kansas. A kind of cross between Tom Sawyer and Native Son, the book is a blend of sunny memories of life in a large, affectionate family and the brooding fears of nameless violence waiting around almost every corner.
THEY FOUGHT ALONE, by John Keats. The story of American and Philippine soldiers who stayed--and fought--on Mindanao after the American retreat in 1942.
Best Sellers
FICTION
1. THE SHOES OF THE FISHERMAN, West (1, last week)
2. CARAVANS, Michener (2)
3. ELIZABETH APPLETON, O'Hara (3)
4. THE GROUP, McCarthy (7)
5. THE COLLECTOR, Fowles (6)
6. CITY OF NIGHT, Rechy (8)
7. THE CONCUBINE, Lofts (9)
8. ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE, Fleming (5)
9. JOY IN THE MORNING, Smith
10. BRIDE OF PENDORRIC, Holt
NONFICTION
1. THE FIRE NEXT TIME, Baldwin (1)
2. MY DARLING CLEMENTINE, Fishman (7)
3. I OWE RUSSIA $1,200, Hope (2)
4. THE AMERICAN WAY OF DEATH, Mitford (4)
5. THE WHOLE TRUTH AND NOTHING BUT, Hopper (3)
6. THE WINE IS BITTER, Eisenhower (9)
7. TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD, Cation (8)
8. THE DAY THEY SHOOK THE PLUM TREE, Lewis (6)
9. TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY, Steinbeck (5)
10. PACIFIC WAR DIARY, Fahey (10)
* All times E.D.T.
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