Books: TV in Print

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Not so long ago — perhaps the life span of a single picture tube — it would have seemed presumptuous to put a batch of TV scripts between hard covers, somewhat like sending Milton Berle's headgear to the Smithsonian. But some TV drama has been getting astonishingly good in recent years, and one writer who helped make it so is a young (32) New Yorker named Paddy Chayefsky. Even off the TV screen and in cold print, these six plays are surprisingly entertaining, certainly better than a great many...

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