RADIO: Program Preview, Aug. 24, 1953

For the week starting Friday, Aug. 21. Times are E.D.T., subject to change.

RADIO

Invitation to Learning (Sun. 11:35 a.m., CBS). Thoreau's Waldert discussed by Critic Sterling North and others.

The Railroad Hour (Mon. 8 .p.m., NBC). Gordon MacRae and Dorothy Warenskjold in Hope Is a Woman.

Literary Greats (Tues. 8:45 p.m., ABC). Tennessee Williams reads excerpts from his The Glass Menagerie.

When I Come Home (Tues. 10:35 p.m., CBS). A prisoner of war's return to Massachusetts.

TELEVISION

Assignment: Tomorrow (Sun., 7 p.m., NBC). An hour of film clips of big events (some of the stars: Churchill, Truman, Stevenson. Bernard Shaw) for the eighth anniversary of NBC's television news.

At Issue (Sun. 9 p.m., ABC). Target: U.N. Assembly President Lester Pearson.

Studio One Summer Theater (Mon. 10 p.m., CBS). A play based on Rudyard Kipling's The Light That Failed.