Best Reading: Nov. 1, 1963

TELEVISION

Wednesday, October 30 CHRONICLE (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Pictorial report on the British seacoast resort town of Blackpool.

Friday, November 1

BOB HOPE'S THEATER (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Dana Wynter and Mel Ferrer star in a spy thriller about a Soviet agent's theft of top military secrets. Color.

MISS TEEN-AGE AMERICA PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). America's teen queen to be crowned in Dallas. Mickey Mantle is one of five judges.

Saturday, November 2 EXPLORING (NBC, 1-2 p.m.). The era of

Eleanor of Aquitaine and her son Richard the Lion-Hearted is illustrated for children.

Color.

HOOTENANNY (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).

The Brothers Four, Nancy Ames, the

Travelers Three and Bill Cosby.

SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:20 p.m.). Marilyn Monroe and Yves Montand in Let's Make Love. Color.

Sunday, November 3

NBC NEWS ENCORE (NBC, 3-4 p.m.). The Common Market's effect on European living. Color.

NBC CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6-7 p.m.). Premiére of a new show for young children. Tonight a musical adaptation of James Thurber's fantasy, The Great Quillow. Color.

Monday, November 4

HOLLYWOOD AND THE STARS (NBC, 9:30-10 p.m.). Moviedom's star gangsters—Edward G. Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, George Raft, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy and Paul Muni.

Tuesday, November 5

BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Yehudi Menuhin, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Ray Bolger. Color.

RECORDS

BILL EVANS: CONVERSATIONS WITH MYSELF (Verve). No one in jazz broods quite as beautifully as Bill Evans, a player of inner-ear music so intensely private that just hearing it seems an intrusion. Here, by means of three spliced piano sound tracks, Evans converses aloud with himself with out eavesdropping sidemen. In the unique trio for pianos that results, his accompaniment of himself is a fascinating treatise on his icy musical intelligence.

JIMMY WOODS SEXTET: CONFLICT (Contemporary). Alto Saxophonist Woods means to play an "engaged" jazz that is a strong and sharply protesting comment on the Negro in America—his sound is a shriek, a cry, a noise from the streets. Here, with six of his own compositions, his message is as unmistakable as a punch in the stomach. On drums is Elvin Jones, whose cruel talent it is to force from other musicians more music than they know is hidden in their horns.

MARTIAL SOLAL: AT NEWPORT '63 (RCA Victor). Europe's leading jazzman turns out to be more than his two American sidemen can keep up with in this live festi val album. When they give up the chase and Solal flies free, his ideas are a match for his virtuosity and his imagination grows rich to the point of bursting.

SONNY ROLLINS AND COLEMAN HAWKINS: SONNY MEETS HAWK! (RCA Victor). Rollins is the best of the "hard sound" saxophonists, and Hawkins is the prince of lyrical players on the same instrument. Their encounter is hard on the Hawk, perhaps because the sidemen are Sonny's.

BENNY GOLSON: FREE (Argo). Golson is a tenor saxophonist of spotless musicality, with a superb rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Ron Carter, bass; and Art Taylor, drums.