Wednesday, January 1

TOURNAMENT OF ROSES PARADE AND PAGEANT (NBC and CBS, 11:30 a.m.-1:45 p.m.).* Color.

THE SUGAR BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 1:45-4:45 p.m.). Mississippi v. Alabama, broadcast from New Orleans. Color.

THE ORANGE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (ABC, 1:30 p.m. to conclusion). Auburn v. Nebraska, broadcast from Miami.

THE COTTON BOWL PARADE AND FOOTBALL GAME (CBS, 1:45 p.m.-conclusion). Texas University v. Navy, broadcast from Dallas.

THE ROSE BOWL FOOTBALL GAME (NBC, 4:45-7:30 p.m.). Illinois v. Washington, broadcast from Pasadena, Calif.

Thursday, January 2

VICTOR BORGE AT CARNEGIE HALL (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). Accompanying the pianistic capers of Victor Borge are Tenor Sergio Franchi and Pianist Leonid Hambro.

KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Murder involving a rich business manipulator and his girl friend. Aldo Ray and Tina Louise guest-star. Color.

Friday, January 3

THE JACK PAAR PROGRAM (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Paar presents films of Britain's top rock 'n' rollers, the Beatles. Color.

Saturday, January 4

THE JACKIE GLEASON SHOW: THE AMERICAN SCENE MAGAZINE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Anniversary program presenting highlights of The Fat One's 35 years in show business. Otto Preminger and Art Carney are cohosts.

HOLLYWOOD PALACE (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Bing Crosby is the host in the premiere of a new variety show. Tonight's performers include Diahann Carroll, Mickey Rooney, Bob Newhart and Nancy Ames.

Sunday, January 5

ALUMNI FUN (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Premiere of a new quiz show in which college and university alumni compete for financial grants for their schools. Tonight's contestants include Janet Leigh, David Susskind and Darren McGavin.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). First of a two-part report on the five attempts to assassinate Hitler.

THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). First public presentation in the U.S. of Soeur Sourire, "The Singing Nun," taped at her convent at Fichermont, Belgium.

Monday, January 6

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Tonight: movieland's "monsters."

CBS NEWS EXTRA (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Highlights of Pope Paul VI's three-day visit to the Holy Land.

THEATER

On Broadway NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander, is a cynical, funny, abrasive comedy about the frauds who cultivate the TV wasteland for the cash crop. As the biggest phony of them all, Robert Preston is full of roguish charm, and as magnetic as sin.

THE BALLAD OF THE SAD CAFE. Brawny Colleen Dewhurst is matched with Michael Dunn, a prancing, saturnine dwarf, in Edward Albee's enigmatic adaptation of Carson McCuller's novella. The play lacks stage life of its own.

BAREFOOT IN THE PARK, by Neil Simon. Audiences may shiver at the sight of a balky radiator and a snow-drifted skylight in the apartment shared by Newlyweds Elizabeth Ashley and Robert Redford, but they are certain to shake with laughter as the couple copes kookily with a week's wedlock.

THE PRIVATE EAR and THE PUBLIC EYE. Playwright Peter Shaffer shows his comic range in two one-acters--one about the strain of early love, not knowing how to win by being casual, the other about the strain and boredom of later love, not knowing how to win by seeing anew.

CHIPS WITH EVERYTHING. R.A.F. trainees shape up into smart marching units during this play, but they have more trouble forming themselves into rebels and reforming the British class system, as Playwright Wesker would have them do.

LUTHER. On a vast and lonely stage, Albert Finney as Luther lacerates himself in solitary agonies of spiritual doubt, and anathemizes the abuses of Rome with fiery eloquence and invective.

Off Broadway

THE ESTABLISHMENT. The Establishment company, a hip group of anti-p.r. men, demolish sacrosanct images and egos with laughing precision.

CINEMA

LOVE WITH THE PROPER STRANGER. Made in Manhattan, this pulp-fiction romance about a girl "in trouble" wisely plays down its drama, plays up its gritty humor, and becomes an actors' holiday for Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen and company.

CHARADE. This parlor prank can't decide whether to be a farce, a sophisticated comedy or an out-and-out thriller. But Cary Grant is in top form, Audrey Hepburn is in gowns by Givenchy, and murder most foul is in full color.

HALLELUJAH THE HILLS. Vermont is the setting for the first surrealistic camping trip in history--a hilarious conceit by one of the U.S.'s "new cinema" directors, Adolfas Mekas, who keeps his cast racing from pratfall farce to parody.

NIGHT TIDE. Man against myth is the theme of Writer-Director Curtis Harrington's promising first feature, an eerie tale of a young U.S. sailor lured by the siren song of a Venice, Calif., mermaid.

KNIFE IN THE WATER. Polish Director Roman Polanski maintains a suspenseful pace, putting two men and one woman aboard a sailboat that appears to be mostly sex-driven.

BILLY LIAR. In this tragicomic fantasy from Britain, Tom Courtenay gives a matchless performance as an undertaker's assistant whose dreams are bigger than life. And Julie Christie is a dream come true as his way-out girl friend.

THE CARDINAL. Director-turned-Actor John Huston plays a fire-breathing man of the cloth and nearly walks off with this screen version of Henry Morton Robinson's 1950 bestseller, which is directed by

Otto Preminger in a style best described as Hollywood baroque.

TOM JONES. The funniest movie in many a year. Henry Fielding's bawdy classic about vice in 18th century England has been pinched and patted into shape by Director Tony Richardson, with able assistance from Stars Albert Finney and Hugh Griffith.

BOOKS

Best Reading

"DEAREST EMMIE," by Carl J. Weber. Thomas Hardy's marriage to Emma Gifford was long and loveless. She felt superior to him socially and intellectually and never let him forget it.These letters show his stoic, detached response to her.

MR. DOOLEY REMEMBERS-THE FORMAL MEMOIRS OF FINLEY PETER DUNNE, edited by Philip Dunne. An affectionate recollection, written by his son, of the creator of Mr. Dooley, the Irish bartender who was the "wit and censor" of the nation.

"WE NEVER MAKE MISTAKES," by Alexander Solzhenitsyn. The author of One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch is the best of the new Russian novelists who have won recognition in the post-Stalin "thaw." These are two short novels about fringe members of Soviet society: the man who still believes in Das Kapital and the poor old peasant woman who has endured both czars and commissars.

THE HAT ON THE BED, by John O'Hara. A literary wonder: the author's fourth collection of short stories in as many years, and they are excellent.

THE ELEPHANT, by Slawomir Mrozek. A lion refuses to eat Christians, a Polish matron keeps a live revolutionary caged in her living room, civil servants begin to fly like eagles over Warsaw in the fantasy world of a brilliant young Polish satirist.

THE LETTERS OF F. SCOTT FITZGERALD, edited by Andrew Turnbull. "The thing that lies behind all great careers from Shakespeare's to Lincoln's is the sense that life is a cheat and its conditions those of defeat." So wrote the novelist near the end of his life when he was poor, neglected and wasted by hack writing and alcohol. But these letters, most written then, contain some of his very best writing.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Group, McCarthy (1 last week)

2. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (2)

3. The Venetian Affair, MacInnes (3)

4. Caravans, Michener (8)

5. The Living Reed, Buck (5)

6. The Three Sirens, Wallace (4)

7. The Hat on the Bed, O'Hara (9)

8. The Battle of the Villa Fiorita, Godden (6)

9. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (7)

10. The King's Orchard, Turnbull

NONFICTION

1. Profiles in Courage, Kennedy

2. Mandate for Change, Eisenhower (2)

3. The American Way of Death, Mitford (1)

4. Confessions of an Advertising Man, Ogilvy (5)

5. Rascal, North (3)

6. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky (4)

7. Dorothy and Red, Sheean (9)

8. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (7)

9. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (6)

10. The Pooh Perplex, Crews (10)

*All times E.S.T.

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