Wednesday, October 7

CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8 p.m.).* The story of Clarence Gideon, the Florida convict whose appeal to the Supreme Court resulted in new trials for himself and hundreds of other petty criminals, based on New York Times Reporter Anthony Lewis' excellent book, Gideon's Trumpet.

WEDNESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Late Show addicts should not panic if they don't recognize this film: it is not a rerun. Universal Pictures has embarked on the production of feature-length films made for TV only, on the theory that if TV addicts could not be brought to the movies, it would bring the movies to them. This, the first of two films to be shown this season, is a story of an international conspiracy involving a crooked cartel and three orphaned children who possess evidence that could destroy it. Called "See How They Run," it stars Austrian Beauty Senta Berger, John Forsythe and Franchot Tone. Color.

Thursday, October 8

KRAFT SUSPENSE THEATER (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Robert Goulet stars in a World War II drama as a goldbricking soldier accused of being a Nazi infiltrator. Color.

Friday, October 9

BOB HOPE PRESENTS THE CHRYSLER THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). A young law student has the know-how to take his murder conviction to the Supreme Court on the grounds that his confession of guilt was coerced from him. With Bobby Darin and Janet Leigh. Color.

Saturday, October 10

THE LAWRENCE WELK SHOW (ABC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). 1955 was hardly a vintage year for this strictly domestic champagne, but bubbly Lawrence Welk is already celebrating his "tenth anniversary" -- quick, before it goes flat!

SUMMER OLYMPICS (NBC, 1-3 a.m.).

Opening ceremonies of the XVIII Olympics, telecast live via the new Syncom III satellite.

Sunday, October 11

DIRECTIONS '65 (ABC, 1-1:30 p.m.). The life of Chaim Weizmann, the scientist and pioneering Zionist who became Israel's first President.

NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE TELECAST (CBS, approx. 1 p.m. -conclusion). Vari ous N.F.L. games across the country.

BRITISH ELECTION SPECIAL (NBC, 5-5:30 p.m.). Sir Alec Douglas-Home and Harold Wilson campaign on the hustings.

THE SUNDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Anne Bancroft and Patty Duke in their Academy Award-winning roles in The Miracle Worker.

Monday, October 12

OLYMPICS 1964 (NBC, 11:15-11:30 p.m.). Taped finals of the men's 100-meter freestyle, women's 200-meter breaststroke and women's springboard diving.

Tuesday, October 13

COMBAT (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Mickey Rooney plays a loudmouth know-it-all G.I. forced to live up to his bragging when he is trapped behind German lines.

WORLD WAR I (CBS, 8-8:30 p.m.). Myths and facts surrounding the legendary "atrocities" of the 1914 German occupation of Belgium.

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Secret Agent Robert Vaughn investigates the kidnaping of a group of leading intellectuals by a mad sea captain who thinks he is saving them from nuclear destruction.

THE CAMPAIGN AND THE CANDIDATES (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The presidential campaign as it unfolds in California.

RECORDS

Folk Music

ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN (Columbia). Turning aside from social injustices, Dylan devotes himself largely to personal matters--disjointed dreams like Motorpsycho Nitemare and unsentimental love. "Gypsy gal, you've got me swallowed," he confesses in Spanish Harlem Incident. "Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss," he says To Ramona. His songs (which he defines as "anything I can sing") are, as usual, loosely constructed, with occasional memorable melodic phrases and mostly forgettable verse that runs stale and sodden for miles and then suddenly takes one by surprise. As for his nasal voice and wheezing harmonica, his fanatic following is evidence that a taste for them can be acquired.

I WALK THE LINE (Columbia), sings Johnny Cash, "because you're mine." A country and western star, Cash is also welcome on the folk circuit because of his agreeable dark baritone voice and the quiet conviction he brings to even the most outlandish tales. These seven of his own songs include Give My Love to Rose, the message of a fellow dying on the railroad tracks, and Folsom Prison Blues, intoned by a cad who "shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die."

AFRICAN CONCERT (Philips) is sung by the Troubadours of Belgium's King Bau-douin--45 Congolese drummers and singers between the ages of nine and 14, who earned the right to their title by delighting the King with a performance of their songs during his 1956 visit to the Congo. Their earlier recording of Luba folk songs and a Mass won them a large international audience. Somehow their leader, Franciscan Father Guido Haazen, makes them sing together with precision and yet seem to be blithely improvising. Theirs are songs for working, praying, playing and dancing. One, sung in Swahili, begins: "Trouble. Sister, trouble, Father; the Europeans are arriving in Kenya from the airplane."

TRADITIONAL SONGS AND BALLADS (Folkways). The collection is Scottish, the period the 17th and 18th centuries, and the subject is sex. So sweetly do Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger sing the hypnotic tunes that even the most shocking deep-country scandals sound gentle and gay. There are printed lyrics and a glossary for those whose Scotch is weak.

SONGS FROM A COLONIAL TAVERN (Decca) have been chosen from more than 7,000 old ditties unearthed by Taylor Vrooman, who dresses up in knee breeches and sings them for visitors to Virginia's reconstructed colonial Williamsburg. Vrooman, and the cronies who sing catches with him, perform here with a formality and finish more suitable for a concert hall than a tavern, in spite of lyrics like "From good liquor ne'er shrink."

LAND OF GIANTS (Columbia). The swinging, twanging, oversized chorus known as the New Christy Minstrels celebrates real and mythical American heroes. There's John Henry, of course, along with Paul Bunyan, Casey Jones, Johnny Appleseed, Joe Magarac, Thomas Jefferson, and the blacksmith of Brandywine. Apparently the only lady giant available was a statue ("My name is Liberty").

CINEMA

THE LUCK OF GINGER COFFEY. All the horror, humor and humanity of Brian Moore's novel are captured in this fine, sensitive film about a big Irish bruiser whose wife alone knows that he is really just a middle-aged child. Played to perfection by Robert Shaw and Mary Ure.

TOPKAPI. Director Jules Dassin (Rififi) lightens larceny with laughter as Melina Mercouri and Peter Ustinov head a crook's tour of exotic Istanbul in pursuit of four fabulous emeralds.

THE APE WOMAN. A girl who looks simian becomes a meal ticket for the con man who exploits her misfortune in this ferociously funny Italian comedy about the beastliness of Homo sapiens.

MARY POPPINS. Julie Andrews proves she is a girl to conjure with in Walt Disney's droll musical fantasy about a London nanny who slides up banisters and performs all sorts of diverting miracles.

I'D RATHER BE RICH. Another of those mix-ups about a wayward heiress proves, surprisingly enough, 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! In brightest Africa, the hunt for a pair of rare white rhinos triggers a timely, scenic, instructive, and highly entertaining melodrama.

GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. A skillful British director, Desmond Davis, and a superlative British actress, Rita Tushingham, transform this rather banal tale of a young girl's affair with a middle-aged author (Peter Finch) into a movie of unusual warmth and wit.

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. Hitting nary a false note, the Beatles shrewdly play the Beatles in a comedy that is yeah, yeah, yeah nearly all the way.

THAT MAN FROM RIO. A stylish French spoof of Hollywood epics assigns most of the derring-do to Hero Jean-Paul Belmondo, who does it to a turn.

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

MY AUTOBIOGRAPHY, by Charles Chaplin. In his account of his flamboyant life, the great comedian describes his miserably poor childhood in London in fascinating detail. Unfortunately, when he turns to love, politics, and even his happy fourth marriage to Oona O'Neill, he leaves out both fact and feeling in favor of the name-dropping prose of a standard show-biz autobiography.

REMINISCENCES, by Douglas MacArthur. The grand strategist concentrates on World War II, the occupation of Japan, and Korea. The generosity and wisdom that characterized his leadership in the reconstruction of Japan are told with restraint, his firing by Truman in Korea as bitterly as if it had happened yesterday. A good writer, MacArthur comes through as a proud, realistic and yet oddly romantic man.

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, Anti-Hero Herzog is too passive and maudlin to carry a plot to a wholly satisfactory conclusion.

VIVE MOI!, by Sean O'Faolain. The Irish novelist writes his autobiography with a candor that few writers can 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 does Leonhardt's sociological study of the Germans. Italian Journalist Barzini finds his countrymen self-centered, corrupt and theatrical. But almost despite himself, he celebrates their warmth, spontaneity and fierce individuality.

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.

CORRIDORS OF POWER, by C. P. Snow. The author's newest New Man devises a grand plan to push a controversial program through Parliament and himself into headlines. This course is deflected by some of Snow's deftest strokes of plotting.

Best Sellers

FICTION

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

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

3. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (6)

4. Armageddon, Uris (7)

5. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (4)

6. This Rough Magic, Stewart (5)

7. Julian, Vidal (3)

8. Herzog, Bellow

9. A Mother's Kisses, Friedman (9)

10. The Man, Wallace (10)

NONFICTION

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

2. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (3)

3. Harlow, Shulman (1)

4. The Italians, Barzini (6)

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

6. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (5)

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

8. My Autobiography, Chaplin

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

10. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (9)

* All times E.D.T.

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