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Father of the Bride (CBS, 9:30-10 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. A new comedy series based on the Edward Streeter novel. Leon Ames plays the title role.
Sat., Sept. 30
Magic Ranch (ABC, 11:30 a.m.-noon). Children's program, given over entirely to sleight-of-hand tricks, illusions, conjurings and other magical marvels.
Sun., Oct. 1
Adlai Stevenson Reports (ABC, 3-3:30 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. The U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations begins biweekly résumés of international events.
Ed Sullivan Show (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). SEASON PREMIÈRE. Brigitte Bardot, Jackie Gleason and Gene Kelly in Paris, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope in London, Phil Silvers and the McGuire Sisters in New York, belly dances in Istanbul, and travelogues from Rome to Hong Kong.
Mon., Oct. 2
Calendar (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). PREMIÈRE. A new daily program for women with news and news features as its target.
Tues., Oct. 3
Calvin and the Colonel (ABC, 8:30-9 p.m.). PREMIÈRE. Cartoon series with the voices of Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll, the original Amos 'n' Andy.
BOOKS
Best Reading
Selected Tales, by Nikolai Leskov. In this well translated collection, U.S. readers can sample the half-world of firebirds, angels and demons of the old Russian skaz—a narrative form which the author made famous in his own country.
Faces in the Water, by Janet Frame. Sharing the sensitivity and control of her compatriots Katherine Mansfield and Sylvia Ashton-Warner, this New Zealand author has written a brilliant, largely autobiographical novel about nine long years in a mental institution, with cool sympathy and warm love for the sane and insane alike.
When My Girl Comes Home, by V. S. Pritchett. In these short stories, a first-rate writer and critic (Britain's New Statesman), with a gift for spotting the seeds of madness in the most prosaic minds, catches his characters in mid-flight with the bright, startled vividness of an exploding flashbulb.
Franny and Zooey, by J. D. Salinger. The author's first work in hardcover since Nine Stories (1953), a reprinting of two long New Yorker stories about the seven prodigious Glass siblings, is a joyous, balanced, masterly book, convoluted and mystical enough to fuel dormitory debates for several seasons.
The Age of Reason Begins, by Will and Ariel Durant. In the first volume of a trilogy with which he hopes to complete his formidable Story of Civilization, the author (assisted by his wife) examines the 16th and 17th centuries with admirably balanced but sometimes passionless rationalism.
Kidnap, by George Waller. This meticulous account adds nothing to what is known about the Lindbergh kidnaping, but it summarizes well the bizarre, tragic events of crime and capture.
Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajino. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard, and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself.