MACLEISH. VAN DOREN ON TV

Two of the most eminent men in our cultural life will have free rein on a full-hour telecast on Channel 5 at 10 p.m. tonight.

The participants in this wide ranging conversation are both Pulitzer Prize winners and professor emeriti: Archibald MacLeish, who this year retired from Harvard prestigious Boylston chair, and Mark Van Doren, who recently ended his long tenure in the English department at Columbia.

CBS placed cameras and microphones strategically about MacLeish's farm in Conway, N.H. and caught the two men's discussions of life, love and literature they roamed about the estate during Van Doren's one-day visit there.