On Broadway

Monday, Mar. 07, 1960
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The Sunday Sports Spectacular (CBS, 3-4:30 p.m.). Golf, as played by Pros Sammy Snead and Dow Finsterwald, Amateurs Ray Milland and Robin Roberts.

Conquest (CBS, 5-5:30 p.m.). Filmed in a Harvard psychology laboratory, the program tries to explain "What Makes Us Human?", shows how science measures learning and conditioning.

The Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Japan's Changing Face concentrates on the youth of Japan, traces the deep changes of attitude that have occurred since the day of the kamikazes.

Sunday Showcase (NBC, 8-9 p.m.). A young architect attempts to replace his dead father as a circus magician in Turn the Key Deftly, an original mystery by Alfred Bester, with Julie Harris, Francis Lederer and Maximilian Schell. Color.

The Jack Benny Show (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). Jack's guests: Robert Wagner and Natalie Wood.

Mon., March 7

Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tomorrow, an adaptation of a William Faulkner short story, with Kim Stanley, Richard Boone, Beulah Bondi and Charles Bickford.

Tues., March 8

Ford Startime (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). With Guests Woody Herman, Vaughn Monroe, Freddie Martin and Jo Stafford, Hubbell Robinson's tiring series tries to acquire some zip with The Swingin' Singin' Years. Color.

The Garry Moore Show (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Guests will be Comic Alan King and Roberta Sherwood.

THEATER

The Deadly Game. A Friedrich Duerrenmatt novel adapted by James Yaffe makes a play of some moral and theatrical merit. Retired European men of law place a brassy American salesman on trial in a kind of parlor game. It turns out to be a spider's parlor. With Claude Dauphin. Max Adrian, Pat Hingle.

The Andersonville Trial. In the dock: the Confederate officer who ran the deadly prison camp at Andersonville, Ga. Although never paying off on its promise to get to the bottom of the moral issue it raises, the play's bursts of eloquence and bouts of theater make a thought-starting evening on Broadway.

Five Finger Exercise. An English family's hopeless un-togetherness and snapping tensions nearly kill a stranger among them, in a play manipulated quietly and expertly by Playwright Peter Shaffer, well staged by Director John Gielgud.

Fiorello! Actor Tom Bosley puts the croaking little mayor back under his fire hat in a well-made little musical.

The Miracle Worker. William Gibson's treatment of the early life of Helen Keller falls short of masterful playwriting, but adds up to a moving and worthwhile evening of theater. With Anne Bancroft and 13-year-old Patty Duke.

BOOKS

Best Reading

Between Then and Now, by Alba de Céspedes. With rare skill and unrelenting candor the author writes of a woman who rejects the bonds of husband and family only to find that freedom can be a burden, too.

Kiss Kiss, by Roald Dahl. The master of the grisly grin concentrates largely on females in these stories, and the results will make most householders regard their wives, cats and landladies with renewed suspicion.

Love and the French, by Nina Epton. A keyhole view of the subject from the hard-jousting Middle Ages to the seemingly weary 20th century.