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...show's producers, Louis G. Cowan Inc., brushed off the first criticism with the statement that Della Rocca was simply an amateur impresario who dabbles in low-cost opera in his home town of Baldwin, L.I. On the second point, though denying that the Delia Rocca-Prato appearance was planned, they conceded that The $64,000 Challenge will come on the air next month, replacing Sunday night's Appointment with Adventure. The gimmick: people who have written in saying they are just as good at opera as Della Rocca or at cooking as Marine Captain Richard S. McCutchen...
Leriche protested increduously that Napoleon was commonly thought to have died of stomach cancer. Just then Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin, the evening's guest of honor, caught sight of the college's collection of pickled viscera and got sick to his stomach. The conversation ended abruptly...
...Jail for Christmas. Seeking emotional release himself, James Baldwin took off for Paris in 1948. Unlike Fellow Novelist
Wright and other self-exiled American Negroes, Author Baldwin does not pretend to have found the good, free life in Europe. On the contrary. He tells how, in Paris, he was clapped into jail at Christmastime when a prankster friend left a stolen sheet in his hotel room. Baldwin describes in chilling detail the glacial speed of French due process of law, the dank, verminous cells, the human derelicts ("faces the color of lead and the consistency of oatmeal''), and the laughter of the French court which released him, "the laughter of those who consider themselves...
Back in the U.S., Author Baldwin feels that every Negro must "make his own precarious adjustment to the 'nigger' who surrounds him and to the 'nigger' in himself." Says he: "I love America more than any other country in the world, and. exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually." In that criticism, he has not spared his own race, ranging from the failure of Negro novelists to capture in print "any of the joy of Louis Armstrong or the really bottomless, ironic and mocking sadness of Billie Holliday...