Wednesday, December 9

CBS REPORTS (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.)* "Segregation: Northern-Style," a report, shot with hidden cameras, on the trials of a Negro family trying to buy a home in a white suburban neighborhood.

BURKE'S LAW (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Burke's usual bag of interesting cameo players: Hans Conried, Broderick Crawford, Dan Duryea, Rhonda Fleming, Burgess Meredith and Mamie Van Doren.

THE DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Kaye and Guest Imogene Coca will perform Swan Lake with, one presumes, new variations.

Friday, December 11

THE ENTERTAINERS (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Thelma Ritter joins Regulars Bob Newhart, Caterina Valente and Don DeLuise.

Saturday, December 12

THE NOBEL PRIZE AWARDS 1964 (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). A documentary special, hosted by Alistair Cooke, with behind-the-scenes deliberations and discussions by the judges, which were recorded on camera for the first time, and the presentations of the 1964 prizes,

Sunday, December 13

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). "Who Killed Anne Frank?" is a report on the hunt for the remaining Nazi war criminals.

PROFILES IN COURAGE (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Sam Houston, and his courage in opposing the secession of Texas from the Union on the eve of the Civil War.

Monday, December 14

BEN CASEY (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Joan Hackett as a polio victim bent on suicide.

Tuesday, December 15

THE MAN FROM U.N.C.L.E. (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Super-Agent Napoleon Solo needs Super-Schoolmarm June Lockhart to help him out of the clutches of Super-Enemy Ricardo Montalban.

THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A special on Hitler's last big effort to pluck victory from defeat 20 years ago.

THEATER

On Broadway THE OWL AND THE PUSSYCAT, by Bill Manhoff, is as timeless as a Punch-and-Judy show and as timely as Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Diana Sands, as a sexy pussycat who claws, and Alan Alda, as a bookish owl who screeches, fill the evening with good, vulgar, neurotic laughter.

LUV. Eli Wallach, Anne Jackson and Alan Arkin take a slapstick and tongue-wagging jaunt on a suspension bridge in Murray Schisgal's absurd spoof of the theater of the absurd. The hand of Mike Nichols mixes gags and sight gags with unerring skill.

OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR. For this music-hall documentary, Joan Littlewood hits where it hurts with laughter by blending sentimentality, song and satire. A marvelously adroit cast, led by Victor Spinetti, plays the men and women who lived, joked and suffered through World War I.

COMEDY IN MUSIC. Victor Borge proves himself a Great Dane as he toys with the ivories and tickles his audience in a 1 1/2-man romp with Co-Pianist and Foil Leonid Hambro.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. One of the most remarkably versatile talents of the contemporary stage, Zero Mostel breathes nostalgic life into this pleasant, poignant musical comedy derived from Sholom Aleichem's tales of Tevye and his five daughters.

Off Broadway

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY. Mitty might have difficulty recognizing himself in this musical exercise thinly based on the Thurber character, but a clever cast and fresh songs and dances provide a zesty evening.

CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. A group of zanies have brought the British revue back to beyond-the-fringe lunacy in a parade of consistently hilarious vignettes.

RECORDS

For Children

MARY POPPINS (Vista). The asperity of the real Mary Poppins has vanished, but the movie's sugar-coated Mary still has magic about her, thanks to Julie Andrews, who sings about half the Sherman brothers' songs on the sound track, including Super-cali-fragil-istic-expi-ali-docious.

NOAH'S ARK (RCA Victor). One of four little "Dance-a-Story" albums with illustrations suggesting how to dance to the music. In this one, children imitate giraffes, bears, monkeys, birds, rabbits, snakes and turtles after they have sawed and hammered to build the Ark.

DR. SEUSS PRESENTS HORTON HATCHES THE EGG, THE SNEETCHES, AND OTHER STORIES (RCA Camden). Few parents can read aloud Dr. Seuss's funny, freewheeling fantasies with as quick and droll a tongue as Actor Marvin Miller. He has already recorded Bartholomew and the Oobleck and Yertle the Turtle.

"I DON'T WANT TO GO TO BED" (Harmony). Children even up to age eight are vastly amused to hear Robbie, on one side of the record, and Kathy, on the other, act out all the dodges they themselves use to fight sleep ("I want a glass of water"; "There is a tiger in my room").

WINNIE THE POOH NO. 2 (Two 45s; RCA Victor). Two well-dramatized A. A. Milne stories, about Pooh and Eeyore and Kanga and Baby Roo. A special hum of Pooh's signals when to turn the pages of the accompanying child-scaled booklet with colored pictures and text.

HI NEIGHBOR #2 (U.S. Committee for UNICEF). From each of five countries-- Brazil, Ghana, Israel, Japan and Turkey--come a favorite song or two and typical dances, with clear directions for attempting them.

SNOOPYCAT (Folkways). The warmth and beauty of Marian Anderson's voice brings to life a gentle series of stories and songs about her cat. For very little children.

HANS CHRISTIAN ANDERSEN FAIRY TALES (Spoken Arts). Flooded with watered-down stories, parents and children who can understand English English should be grateful for these articulate readings by British Actress Eve Watkinson and Old Vic Alumnus Christopher Casson. The latest LP, Volume VII, contains only The Little Mermaid. Boys might best start with the tricky, funny tale of Great Clans and Little Clans on Volume III.

CINEMA

TO LOVE. Lust at first sight is good for grand though gross guffaws in Swedish Director Jorn Donner's tale of a repressed young widow (Harriet Andersson) who meets a fast-moving travel agent at her husband's funeral and gives nary a thought to the mourning after.

IL BIDONE. Though it sometimes seems a fumbling first version of 8 1/2, this Italian tragicomedy about a smalltime swindler (Broderick Crawford) in bishop's clothing stirs interest as the missing volume of Director Federico Fellini's "trilogy of solitude" begun with La Strada and ending in Le Notti di Cabiria.

THE PUMPKIN EATER. A marriage is sliced open by Director Jack Clayton, and the raw wounds throb in Anne Bancroft's performance as an oft-wed British matron who is bored, betrayed and befuddled.

THE FINEST HOURS. This skillful documentary sums up the career of Sir Winston Churchill, often in his own eloquent words, and warms history with intimate views of Churchill's country retreats.

SEND ME NO FLOWERS. As a suburban hypochondriac who feels the end is nigh, Rock Hudson prepares Wife Doris Day for widowhood while Tony Randall keeps the fun alive as a macabre neighbor.

SEANCE ON A WET AFTERNOON. Kim Stanley seems simultaneously sweet, bitchy, poignant and menacing in this taut British thriller about a psychotic psychic whose contact on the other side persuades her to carry out a kidnaping.

A WOMAN IS A WOMAN. A lissome Parisian stripteaser (Anna Karina) sheds her inhibitions in this giddy, free-form improvisation by French Director Jean-Luc Godard, who seems to have liberated his mind from all but youth, love, and a fondness for old Hollywood musicals.

MY FAIR LADY. As the irascible phonetics expert who transforms a grimy flower girl into an English rose, Rex Harrison suavely repeats for the camera his Broadway triumph in the Lerner-Loewe classic based on Shaw. Audrey Hepburn, in her full-blooming rose period, is a delight.

THE SOFT SKIN. Air travel spells doom to an aging intellectual who develops an idee fixe about a stewardess in this triangular Gallic drama, exquisitely wrought by Director Franc,ois Truffaut (The 400 Blows).

WOMAN IN THE DUNES. Japanese Director Hiroshi Teshigahara studies the human condition in a stunningly achieved metaphor--a man and woman trying to survive in a desolate sand hole.

TOPKAPI. For Director Jules Dassin's jewel thieves, getting theirs is only half the fun in this merry account of an Istanbul caper pulled off by Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov and other scalawags.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE HORSE KNOWS THE WAY, by John O'Hara. This is O'Hara's fourth large collection of short stories in as many years; he has now sworn off to concentrate on novels. Maybe he shouldn't. The latest volume enhances his reputation for brevity and wit as a social observer in the short story form.

HENRY ADAMS: THE MAJOR PHASE, by Ernest Samuels. This biography describes Adams' life of luxurious despair, traveling often and behaving, as Oliver Wendell Holmes put it, like "an old cardinal."

A LITTLE LEARNING, by Evelyn Waugh. The first part of the British satirist's autobiography comprises a warm, impressionistic recollection of childhood, a spirited account of high living at Oxford and a miserable tour as a master in a bleak boys' school in Wales--in fact almost all the ingredients of Waugh's brilliant first novel, Decline and Fall.

HERZOG, by Saul Bellow. The misery of an unwanted divorce and a custody case and the psychological desolation they inflict on a man of good will are remorselessly pursued by Bellow. The gloom is lightened by swatches of letters written by the hero to famous men, giving them, instead of his wife, a piece of his mind.

LIFE WITH PICASSO, by Franc,oise Gilot. In a rich year for autobiographies and memoirs, this account of the great artist by his ex-mistress of nine years holds a unique and surprisingly high place. Mile. Gilot is unfailingly frank about her own emotions as well as Picasso's, making her revelation of living with genius meaningful as well as authentic.

MARKINGS, by Dag Hammarskjoeld. This disturbing book is in out-of-stock demand in most of the U.S. It is a record of the religious doubts and mystical exaltations that possessed the late U.N. Secretary-General during times of crisis as well as tedium in the huge glass box on Manhattan's East River.

OF POETRY AND POWER, edited by Erwin Glikes and Paul Schwaber. One of the few books of enduring significance among the 60-odd about President Kennedy published since the assassination. It is a collection of poems, written in grief and occasionally in anger by many of America's most talented poets.

THE BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these short stories, the author writes again of exurbia: the proletariat of vice presidents, the charming, irresponsible remnants of old families, and the winning eccentrics.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Herzog, Bellow (1 last week)

2. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (2)

3. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (3)

4. Julian, Vidal (4)

5. This Rough Magic, Stewart (6)

6. The Man, Wallace (7)

7. You Only Live Twice, Fleming (8)

8. The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, Le Carre (5)

9. A Song of Sixpence, Cronin

10. The Brigadier and the Golf Widow, Cheever

NON FICTION

1. Markings, Hammarskjoeld (2)

2. Reminiscences, MacArthur (1)

3. My Autobiography, Chaplin (3)

4. The Italians, Barzini (4)

5. Patton: Ordeal and Triumph, Farago

6. The Kennedy Years, The New York Times and Viking Press

7. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (5)

8. A Tribute to John F. Kennedy, Salinger and Vanocur (7)

9. The Words, Sartre (9)

10. So What Else Is New?, Golden

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