Television: Oct. 7, 1966

(4 of 4)

CAPABLE OF HONOR, by Allen Drury. Drury's fictional sense is often turgid, but his reportorial eye is in fine focus in this novel about chicanery in high places.

THE FIXER, by Bernard Malamud. A severe moralist, Malamud pits a helpless man against guilty authority in this poignant account of a Jew condemned to die for a crime he did not commit.

THE ANTI-DEATH LEAGUE, by Kingsley Amis. A sprightly cold war suspense story that keeps the reader looking so long in the wrong direction that he almost forgets the ending is not entirely credible.

THE SECRET OF SANTA VITTORIA, by Robert Crichton. The best first novel of the year and perhaps the most rollickingly funny World War II novel since Mister Roberts.

THIS AGE OF VIOLENCE, by Fredric Wertham. A clinical psychiatrist's indignant analysis of the seeds of violence in contemporary society, from toy guns and war games to TV drama and current fiction. Not even Superman or the Unknown Soldier gets a clean bill of health in this unsettling though probably oversimplified book.

Best Sellers

FICTION 1. Valley of the Dolls, Susann (1 last week)

2. The Adventurers, Robbins (2)

3. Tai-Pan, Clavell (3)

4. The Secret of Santa Vittoria, Crichton (9)

5. Giles Goat-Boy, Barth (5)

6. The Source, Michener (6)

7. The Fixer, Malamud

8. The Detective, Thorp (4)

9. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry, Kemelman (7)

10. Capable of Honor, Drury

NONFICTION 1. How to Avoid Probate, Dacey (1)

2. Rush to Judgment, Lane (5)

3. Human Sexual Response, Masters and Johnson (3)

4. Games People Play, Berne (2)

5. Papa Hemingway, Hotchner (4)

6. With Kennedy, Salinger (8)

7. Everything But Money, Levenson

8. The Last Battle, Ryan (9)

9. Two Under the Indian Sun, Godden and Godden (7)

10. In Cold Blood, Capote (10)