Television
February, 1976
The two-hour premiere performance of Irvin Shaw's novel Rich Man, Poor Man (three excerpts of which were published in Playboy in 1970) opens the ABC-TV series of "Novels for Television" in early February (check local program guides for precise date and time slot). After Rich Man, Poor Man has run its course in subsequent weekly episodes, ABC promises serializations of John Dos Passos' U.S.A., James Michener's Hawaii and Alex Haley's Roots. Ambitious stuff. And the Shaw book makes an ap...
