Wednesday, August 26

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, NBC and CBS, 7:30 p.m.--conclusion).* Continued coverage of the nominating, balloting and politicking from Convention Hall in Atlantic City, N.J., where the party will nominate its presidential candidate.

Thursday, August 27

DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL CONVENTION (ABC, NBC and CBS, 7:30 p.m.--conclusion). Choice of the vice-presidential candidate; acceptance speeches.

Friday, August 28

IT'S A BIG WORLD (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.).

Actor James Garner and Comedian Pat Harrington Jr. introduce the four-day Carling World Golf Championship and interview some of the foreign competitors, including Nationalist China's Chen Ching-Po, New Zealand's Bob Charles, Brazil's Mario Gonzales.

Saturday, August 29

THE KING FAMILY (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). The six King sisters, members of Alvino Rey's Orchestra in the '40s, appear with 33 of their musically gifted children, cousins and nephews in an hour of music spanning two generations.

Sunday, August 30

SUMMER OLYMPIC TRIALS (ABC, 4-5 p.m.). Swimming competition from Astoria, N.Y.; gymnastics from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, Kings Point, N.Y.

CARLING WORLD GOLF TOURNAMENT (CBS, 4-6 p.m.). Final holes of the 72-hole $200,000 event, the first in the world with an international field qualified through open competition.

REVIEW OF THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION (ABC, 5-6 p.m.). Senators Hubert Humphrey and Sam Ervin Jr., and Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. discuss the expected conduct of the campaign.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Report on the U.S. Navy training program for frogmen and sea-land-air teams. Repeat.

RECORDS

Jazz

CHET BAKER (Colpix), freshly returned from a dope cure in Europe, makes his first recording in five years and shows that he is coolly sure of himself and very jaunty (in Walkin'). He can also be as lyrical as anyone in jazz today. He says a lot in little, can sing like a flugelhorn (Whatever Possess'd Me) and make a flugelhorn sing (Soultrane).

COLTRANE'S SOUND (Atlantic) is free, air borne and intense; his tenor sax describes a flashing, looping melodic maze in his composition called Liberia, pokes broodingly into small, dark corners in Equinox, has the jitters in Satellite. The fine drum mer Elvin Jones explodes some free-style fireworks too.

ORCHESTRA PORTRAITS (Pacific Jazz).Composer-Arranger-Bandleader Gerald Wilson conducts his zesty, Hollywood-based big band, using huge splashes of colored sound propelled by a cast-iron beat. The wide brush works best on his own pieces; So What by Miles and 'Round Midnight by Thelonious lose their definition.

MARY LOU WILLIAMS (Mary) swung her way into bebop and then retired from jazz to devote herself to prayer and good works. After ten years' absence from the recording mike, she is back in good form as the pianistic pivot of several talented groups, among them the Howard Roberts Chorus, which sings her Black Christ of the Andes. As a hymn it is simple and moving, with cool kaleidoscopic harmonies, but its jazz superstructure seems to be an afterthought.

A NEW PERSPECTIVE (Blue Note). More jazz hymns, by Veteran Trumpeter Donald Byrd, the son of a Methodist minister.

Schooled in classic composition, Byrd is writing spirituals with jazz textures and African rhythms. There are stretches of monotony, but mostly the music comes to life, catalyzed by the performance of the excellent small choir and combo. The Black Disciple is the most effective, with its unusual rushed rhythms.

TRUE BLUE (Atlantic). A specialist in "soul" like Ray Charles, with whom he played for five years, Alto Saxophonist Hank Crawford performs some of his own pieces (Shake APlenty, Skunky Green) with a small, well-integrated band. Nothing cosmic, just cheerful blues, short, catchy and swinging.

FOLK 'N' FLUTE (Pacific Jazz). Folk music is so popular today that blues singers call themselves folk singers and jazz combos have been known to swing John Henry and We Shall Overcome--violently. Bud Shank and the Folkswingers, featuring Shank's cool flute and Joe Pass's warm guitar, stay close to the spirit of the ballads in their gentle improvisations on songs like This Land Is Your Land and Blowin' in the Wind.

CINEMA

GIRL WITH GREEN EYES. She seemed too good to be true in A Taste of Honey. In her second picture, Liverpool's Rita Tushingham, 22, seems even better than that: a girl who both acts like an angel and looks like a star. Peter Finch plays her middle-aged lover and plays him well, but Rita's dazzling presence turns Finch to sparrow.

A HARD DAY'S NIGHT. A treat for the Beatle generation. The holler boys' first film is fresh, fast and funny, and it may moderate the adult notion that a Beatle is something to be greeted with DDT.

HARAKIRI. A gory, sometimes tedious, sometimes beautiful dramatic treatise on an old Japanese custom: ritual suicide.

CARTOUCHE. French Director Philippe de Broca, the brilliant satirist who made The Five-Day Lover, has executed a careless but wonderfully carefree parody of a period piece in which Jean-Paul Belmondo plays the Robin Hood of 18th century Paris.

THAT MAN FROM RIO. De Broca and Belmondo are at it again, but this time they do better. Rio is a wild and wacky travesty of what passes for adventure in the average film thriller.

THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA. In John Huston's version of Tennessee Williams' play, several unlikely characters (portrayed with talent by Richard Burton and with competence by Deborah Kerr and Ava Gardner) turn up in the patio of a not-very-grand hotel in Mexico and talk, talk, talk about their peculiar problems. Often they talk well.

LOS TARANTOS. With mingled dance and drama and burning Iberian intensity, Spanish Director Rovira-Beleta tells the story of a gypsy Romeo and Juliet.

ISLAND OF THE BLUE DOLPHINS. This intelligent and tasteful tale of an Indian girl (Celia Kaye) who shares an island exile with her dog is a model of what children's pictures ought to be but seldom are.

A SHOT IN THE DARK. Sellers of the Surete sets a new style in sleuthing: let the murderer get away but make sure the audience dies laughing.

SEDUCED AND ABANDONED. Young love becomes a Sicilian nightmare in a sometimes wildly farcical, sometimes deeply affecting tragicomedy by Director Pietro Germi, already famed for Divorce--Italian Style.

ZULU. A bloody good show based on a historical incident that occurred in 1879: the siege of a British outpost by 4,000 African tribesmen.

THE UNSINKABLE MOLLY BROWN. As a girl from the mining camps, Debbie Reynolds makes waves in Denver society and energetically keeps this big, brassy version of Meredith Willson's Broadway musical from going under.

NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this cheeky, stylish, often superlative British satire.

THE ORGANIZER. Director Mario Monicelli's drama about a 19th century strike in Turin has warmth, humor, stunning photography, and a superb performance by Marcello Mastroianni as a sort of Socialist Savonarola.

BOOKS

Best Reading

THE GAY PLACE, by William Brammer. Hardly noticed when it was first published in 1961, this first novel by a sometime aide to Lyndon Johnson has become a top-selling paperback and a political conversation piece. Deservedly, for despite fictional camouflage, it is an adroitly written roman a clef about L.B.J. in the days when he was ringmaster of the U.S. Senate.

THE SCOTCH, by John Galbraith. In this memoir of his childhood in a frugal Scotch community in Ontario, the author of The Affluent Society documents the tightwad society. It is a diverting study of the Scotch and an intriguing, ironic insight into the formative influences that made Economist Galbraith an evangelist of big spending.

THE OYSTERS OF LOCMARIAQUER, by Eleanor Clark. All about the care and feeding of the world's best oysters, and the Bretons who attend them. With love and encyclopedic knowledge of Ostrea edulis, the author has written a nourishing and succulent book, which can be safely read before the R months begin.

EUGENE ONEGIN, by Vladimir Nabokov. Novelist-Scholar Nabokov has rendered Alexander Pushkin's 19th century novel-in-verse with accuracy and range of meaning closer to the original than any previous translation. By contrast, his volumes of notes show Nabokov as an obsessive genius of the species that he kidded so guilefully in his novel Pale Fire.

CORNELIUS SHIELDS ON SAILING. Corny's own philosophy for winning races is also a frank memoir of the man, who at 70, is the champion U.S. skipper.

THE SIEGE OF HARLEM, by Warren Miller. In this book's fantasy plot, Harlem grows tired of riots and declares itself an independent nation. Miller, who lived there for five years, proves his skill both as satirist and Harlemologist.

SHADOW AND SUBSTANCE, by John P. Roche. The A.D.A.'s national chairman says that Americans have more civil liberties than any other people in history. His refreshingly forthright list of personal fears puts nuclear war in first place. The Birchers are only Fear 23.

THE RECTOR OF JUSTIN, by Louis Auchincloss. A better chronicler of Massachusetts' elite Groton School and its wise, eccentric founder, Endicott Peabody, could hardly be hoped for. In this intricate, fascinating chronicle of "Dr. Prescott" of "Justin," Author Auchincloss finally fulfills his long-time promise of major distinction as a novelist.

TWO NOVELS, by Brigid Brophy. In these elegant and wickedly brilliant novellas about a masquerade ball and a lesbian schoolmistress, Brigid Brophy shows subtlety of both thought and style.

THE FAR FIELD, by Theodore Roethke. A posthumous selection of the poems Roethke wrote during the last seven years of his life celebrates movingly and prophetically "the last pure stretch of joy, the dire dimension of a final thing."

JULIAN, by Gore Vidal. A voluminous, fascinating historical novel, well researched, yet remaining oddly dispassionate and at one remove from the vibrant and youthful Roman emperor whose turbulent, 18-month reign marked the last conflict in the Western world between pagan Hellenism and early Christianity.

A MOVEABLE FEAST, by Ernest Hemingway. Funny, if often unkind, inside reminiscences of the literati (Gertrude Stein, Ford Madox Ford, Scott Fitzgerald) who befriended the young unknown writer in his Paris springtime before The Sun Also Rises thrust him into their own outer-world of fame.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. Candy, Southern and Hoffenberg (4 last week)

2. Armageddon, Uris (3)

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

4. Julian, Vidal (2)

5. The Rector of Justin, Auchincloss (6)

6. Convention, Knebel and Bailey (5)

7. The 480, Burdick (7)

8. The Night in Lisbon, Remarque (8)

9. The Spire, Golding (9)

10. Von Ryan's Express, Westheimer

NONFICTION

1. A Moveable Feast, Hemingway (1)

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

3. Harlow, Shulman (3)

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

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

6. The Kennedy Wit, Adler (9)

7. Crisis in Black and White, Silberman (6)

8. Diplomat Among Warriors, Murphy (5)

9. Mississippi: The Closed Society, Silver (10)

10. The Burden and the Glory, Kennedy

* All times E.D.T.

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