Television, Records, Cinema, Books, Best Sellers: Oct. 4, 1963

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CHARLOTTE, by Charlotte Salomon. A touching visual diary of one Jewish family's persecution and extermination by the Nazis, painted by Charlotte just before her death in Auschwitz in 1943.

THE LETTERS OF ROBERT FROST TO LOUIS UNTERMEYER. The poet and the anthologist corresponded for 46 years. Frost, a man who could not write a note for the milk man without giving it his own distinctive twist, writes over the long years of recurring tragedy in his own family, his endless gripes with little worlds of editors, politicians and educators, his deep distrust of liberalism, and his fierce judgment of his fellow writers.

TRAVELS: NEAR AND FAR OUT, by Anthony Carson. An engaging, if impractical, travel book by the most freewheeling, freeloading, freethinking tourist guide ever to enter the trade.

THE GROUP, by Mary McCarthy. Miss McCarthy's acerbic portrait of eight Vassar graduates ('33) is bestselling fiction, first-rate sociology about the Depression, and fascinating, previously unrecorded female lore.

THE UNMENTIONABLE NECHAEV, by Michael Prawdin. The story of the youthful fanatic who became the model for the nihilist Verkhovensky in Dostoevsky's classic study of the ethics and psychology of revolutionaries, The Possessed, and who devised the bleak, dehumanized code of conspiracy and terror that became the model for Lenin's Bolsheviks.

Best Sellers

FICTION

1. The Shoes of the Fisherman, West (1 last week)

2. The Group, McCarthy (4)

3. Caravans, Michener (2) 4. Elizabeth Appleton, O'Hara (3)

5. The Collector, Fowles (5)

6. City of Night, Rechy (6)

7. Joy in the Morning, Smith (9)

8. On Her Majesty's Secret Service, Fleming (8)

9. The Concubine, Lofts (7) 10. The Glass-Blowers, Du Maurier

NONFICTION

1. The American Way of Death, Mitford (4)

2. The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (1)

3. My Darling Clementine, Fishman (2)

4. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, Lasky

5. I Owe Russia $1,200, Hope (3)

6. The Day They Shook the Plum Tree, Lewis (8)

7. Rascal, North

8. The Whole Truth and Nothing But,

Hopper (5) 9. The Wine Is Bitter, Eisenhower (6) 10. Terrible Swift Sword, Catton (7)