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Died. Michael Delia Rocca, 62, the Long Island shoemaker who answered The $64,000 Question on CBS-TV in 1956 (a 14-part question involving Wagner premières, Caruso's teachers and a 1908 performance of Aïda), was never involved in subsequent scandals, spent much of his prize bankrolling his hobby, amateur opera performances; of cancer; in Baldwin...
...with his young and fanatically loyal staff, often takes off in one of the company's private planes to close a sales deal if he thinks his presence will help. He has led a civic-reform drive in Youngstown, is an opera buff who collects old Caruso records and prefers Tristan and Isolde above all other operas...
...dawn. Game managers have proved that the birds' talent for dodging, plus enthusiastic mating habits, keep the dove population constant, and there is no reason to deprive 100,000 hungry hunters of their delicate game. Said one last week: "I don't care if they sing like Caruso. The main thing is that they taste damn good...
...pass her. Maria Callas, who has not done much singing from opera house stages in the past three years, has had eight new recordings issued anyway. Rudolf Schock made the biggest gain among tenors (14 to 38), but it must give him an edgy feeling to see that Enrico Caruso, silent these many years, is right behind him, having posthumously grown in popularity from 20 to 36, thanks to reissues of old recordings. Mario Del Monaco is the most recorded tenor with 39, Fernando Corena the most recorded basso (38), and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, with an astonishing jump from...
...Caruso's Canio in Pagliacci. But every modern Boris has at least one feather in his cap, and-since Russians still consider Boris their operatic masterwork-most of them come from Moscow. Both Hines and London have sung the role there, and both now claim to be about to make a recording of the opera with the Bolshoi company. Khrushchev himself applauded London, but last week, when Hines sang his Grand Guignol Boris at the Met, Soviet U.N. Ambassador Nikolai Fedorenko came backstage and said, "You are Boris...