Wednesday, September 30 FACE THE NATION (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).*Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate William E. Miller answers questions.

POLITICS '64 (ABC, 10:30-11 p.m.). A report on the growing strength of the Republican Party in the South.

Thursday, October 1

THE DONNA REED SHOW (ABC, 8-8:30 p.m.). Guest Stars Willie Mays, Don Drysdale and Leo Durocher appear in "Play Ball," doing just that as ringers in a baseball game between doctors and college freshmen.

KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATRE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Sal Mineo, Jo Van Fleet and Albert Dekker in a drama about a deaf-mute apprentice cabinetmaker who is framed for the murder of his boss.

Friday, October 2

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THE ATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Fred Astaire, in his first TV musical comedy, plays a record-company owner who is trying to put a popular comedian (Louis Nye) under contract. Fred also dances.

THE JACK BENNY PROGRAM (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Jack, as Paul Revere, and Guest Lucille Ball, as his wife, present their version of the real story behind Revere's midnight ride.

Sunday, October 4

DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). A contemporary morality play, Will the Real Jesus Christ Please Stand Up, in which the producer of a big-budgeted Biblical spectacular auditions five costumed actors for the starring role of Jesus Christ, and must decide who best fits the part.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The producers strapped a shoulder-holster camera and wireless microphone on Chicago Black Hawks Forward Stan Mikita to capture the lightning-paced action of big-league professional hockey.

Monday, October 5

90 BRISTOL COURT (NBC, 7:30-9 p.m.).

Another new family-situation comedy, but this is a three-in-one, 90-minute package of interlinking stories about neighboring families in a Southern California apartment court: Karen stars 15-year-old Debbie Watson, with Richard Denning and Mary LaRoche as her parents and Gina Gillespie as the little sister; Harris Against the World has Jack Klugman in the title role and Patricia Barry as his wife; Tom, Dick and Mary stars Steve Franken as Dick, Joyce Bulifant as Mary, and Don Galloway as Tom. Premiere.

RECORDS

Chorals & Song

VERDI: REQUIEM (2 LPs; Angel). When Verdi wrote his Requiem, most critics complained that it was too passionate and sensuous, but one sympathizer de fended him. Italians have their own emo tional habits, he argued, and should be allowed to "talk to the dear Lord in the Italian language." Conductor Carlo Mario Giulini does so here, and it is unlikely that anyone could be more eloquent. He does not set the Dies Irae ablaze as Toscanini did, but his performance has a steady incandescence. Honors also go to London's Philharmonia Orchestra, its huge chorus, and the four soloists, Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Tenor Nicolai Gedda, Bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, and the especially lustrous Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig.

MAHLER: SONGS FROM DBS KNABEN WUNDERHORN (Vanguard). In the 1890s, Mahler was so drawn to the German folk poems in the old anthology called The Youth's Magic Horn that he not only turned them into songs but turned the songs into symphonies. The texts are often grim or sardonic. The "tra-la-lee" in Reveille celebrates a roll call when "dead comrades muster," and after St. Anthony preaches to the fishes, "the carp's still a glutton, and sermon forgotten." Felix Prohaska conducts the orchestral accompaniment for the Swiss baritone, Heinz Rehfuss, and the Canadian-born contralto, Maureen Forrester, who divide the songs and the honors between them.

HAYDN: MASS IN TIME OF WAR (Deutsche Grammophon). This is the first of Haydn's six last Masses, those great, sturdy monuments of faith that look backward musically to Handel and forward to Beethoven. Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform the superb work so deliberately that it seems staid at first but builds slowly to an impressive climax in the Agnus Dei, with its insistent rolls of drums that give the work its popular title, the Paukenmesse or Drum Mass.

RICHARD STRAUSS: SONGS (RCA Victor).

Soprano Lisa Delia Casa has carved a career for herself in Strauss operas and can also confidently interpret his lieder. Here she sings Zueignung, Stuendchen, and other songs of Strauss's youth in a voice like silver filigree. Her accompanist, Arpad Sandor, achieves the same fragile brilliance on the piano as they evoke both the dark and lighter moods of love.

THE PLAY OF HEROD (2 LPs; Decca) is a 12th century music drama reconstructed from a manuscript belonging to the French Benedictine monastery of Fleury. It begins with the archangel's announcement of the birth of Christ and ends when the holy family returns to Galilee after the slaying of the innocents. With its chanted Latin lines, the music sounds strange to 20th century ears--and might seem a trifle odd to medieval ghosts as well, for although the melodies were clearly indicated, rhythms and instruments were not. Scholars aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation prepared the work for a stunning performance at the Metropolitan Museum's Cloisters last December. The recording, also, comes alive, thanks to the musicality and dedication of Noah Greenberg and the New York Pro Musica (TIME, July 10).

OLIVIER MESSIAEN: THREE LITTLE LITURGIES OF THE DIVINE PRESENCE (Columbia). Scored for soprano chorus, strings, and a miscellany of soundmakers including a vibraphone, Chinese cymbals, gongs and the electronic instrument called Ondes Martenot, this 20-year-old work is a reminder of Messiaen's Orient-tilted talents. Like a preacher shaking his fist, the French composer uses wild, sliding sounds, surprise rhythms, and his own effusive text to insist that God is omnipresent. Leonard

Bernstein keeps the Women's Chorus of the Choral Art Society and musicians from the New York Philharmonic at fever pitch.

CINEMA

TOPKAPI. Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov make a suspenseful jewel theft in Istanbul look like grand foolery in Director Jules Dassin's niftiest caper since Rififi.

THE APE WOMAN. Italian Director Marco Ferreri fashions a superb parable of man's inhumanity from this squalid tale about a fast-buck promoter who meets, marries and makes a freak show of a girl (Annie Girardot) covered from head to toe with brown silky hair.

MARY POPPINS. In Walt Disney's drollest movie in years, Julie Andrews works miracles as the rosy-cheeked young nanny who slides up bannisters and whisks the kiddies off to the airier reaches of a fantasy that offers many more lifts than lapses.

ROBINSON CRUSOE ON MARS. Based on valid speculation, this science-fiction saga imagines what might happen to a U.S. astronaut marooned on the red planet.

I'D RATHER BE RICH. Surprisingly enough, another of those mix-ups about a wayward heiress proves continually lively and often hilarious as played by Sandra Dee, with Maurice Chevalier, Hermione Gingold, Andy Williams and Robert Goulet.

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. Italian Director Pietro Germi (Divorce--Italian Style) returns to Sicily for a black and bitter comedy about the imbroglio following a young girl's fall from virtue.

RHINO! An African hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos triggers a timely, scenic, instructive and highly entertaining melodrama.

GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. Britain's Rita Tushingham is cute, cunning, brassy and just about everything else that a movie actress should be in this warmly witty account of an Irish colleen's romance with an aging author (Peter Finch).

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. The Beatles hit their nimble stride in a smooth, fresh, unexpectedly funny comedy that is the answer to a maiden's prayer, and then some.

THAT MAN FROM RIO. Jean-Paul Belmondo dodges poisoned darts and mad scientists in a wildly hilarious parody of Hollywood's next-earthquake-please epics.

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. At a seedy Mexican resort, Director John Huston steers Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton through some choppy but choice sessions of group therapy derived from Tennessee Williams' drama.

BOOKS

Best Reading

VIVE MOI!, By Sean O'Faolain. The Irish novelist and essayist writes his autobiography with a candor that few writers can quite achieve in cold type. The result is a fever chart of an overworked Catholic conscience, and a collage of the scenes of an Irish childhood.

THIS GERMANY, by Rudolf Walter Leonhardt. An urbane German journalist analyzes his bustling nation and tries to explain what makes Germans one of the most admirable, and most disliked, of the world's peoples.

THE ITALIANS, by Luigi Barzini. This exuberant book focuses more on individuals than Leonhardt's sociological study of the

Germans. Italian Journalist Barzini finds his countrymen self-centered, corrupt and instinctively theatrical. But, unwittingly, he celebrates their warmth, spontaneity and fierce individuality.

HERZOG, by Saul Bellow. This long-awaited novel will not quite establish Bellow in his long-reserved place in the U.S. literary pantheon. Though the writing and the characterizations are often brilliant, and each single page is a delight. Anti-Hero Herzog is too passive and maudlin to carry a plot to a wholly satisfactory conclusion.

CORRIDORS OF POWER, by C. P. Snow. Sir Charles stalks the British Establishment again. This time his quarry is a brilliant M.P. who hitches his considerable ambitions to a controversial cause but fails to reckon with the complex motivations of both friends and enemies.

GIDEON'S TRUMPET, by Anthony Lewis.

A lively account of Clarence Earl Gideon, the jailhouse lawyer who changed the law of the land, is used to animate a complex subject--the changing philosophy of the U.S. Supreme Court in the past quarter-century.

THE GOLDEN BEES, by Theo Aronson.

The gossipy story of all the Bonapartes and their clamorous pursuit of instant aristocracy.

BEGINNING AGAIN, 1911-1918, by Leonard Woolf. In the third volume of his memoirs, the author writes of the early years of his marriage to the young esthete and writer, Virginia Stephen. In loving but painful detail, he recounts Virginia Woolf's first flights into insanity and back, years before her great novels were published.

THE ITALIAN GIRL, by Iris Murdoch. Another unsteady Murdoch heroine walks the thin line between old rules and new temptations. She wavers, of course, to give the author another opportunity to pit human emotions against moral tradition.

A MOTHER'S KISSES, by Bruce Jay Friedman. A very funny novel about a domineering mother and her miserable teenage son. Friedman balances bitter humor and driving obsession to create an inimitable comic style.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (2 last week)

2. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (1)

3. Julian, Vidal (5)

4. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (4)

5. This Rough Magic, Stewart (7)

6. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (6)

7. Armageddon, Uris (3)

8. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (9)

9. A Mother's Kisses, Friedman

10. The Man, Wallace

NONFICTION

1. Harlow, Shulman (1)

2. The Invisible Government, Wise and Ross (3)

3. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (2)

4. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (4)

5. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (5)

6. The Italians, Barzini (7)

7. Four Days, U.P.I, and American Heritage (6)

8. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver (8)

9. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (9)

10. Herbert Hoover, Lyons

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