Radio: The Rosy View

Faith Baldwin has turned out novels at the rate of more than two a year for 30 years, plus uncounted shorts. Last week, like Authors Billy Rose and Somerset Maugham, she got her reward: her own television show.

The Faith Baldwin Theater of Romance (alternate Sats. 11 a.m., ABC) hopes to mirror the rosy view of U.S. life & love that has enchanted the Baldwin millions. The first show opened with harp strings, cloud formations and a lyric hymn to Maidenform ("The dream of a bra . . . the largest-selling brassiere in the world!"),...

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