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...mutterings last week when Cobbler Michael Delia Rocca, with the help of another cobbler, former Contestant Gino Prato, won CBS's $64,000 Question. Critics charged that: 1) Delia Rocca was actually a professional impresario, and 2) Gino Prato's appearance was simply a buildup for a new Revlon show to be called The $64,000 Challenge, starring past quiz winners...
...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...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 1:30 p.m., ABC). Die Meistersinger, with Edelmann, Delia Casa, Hopf...
...book is Moravia's The Unfortunate Lover, about a catty mistress who plays a cruel game of Iloveyou, I-love-you-not with her mouselike lover. The best war story is Indro Montanelli's O. Henry-like His Excellency. A monocled, tight-corseted army corps commander named Delia Rovere is clapped into a Milan prison by the Germans in the spring of 1944. He lets his junior fellow officers know that Italy expects them to face the firing squad with courage: "An officer is at all times merely on temporary duty; he is, as the Spaniards...
...last week the quartet's peppy recording of Do Lord had sold 180,000 copies. The quartet (with Rhonda Fleming, a Mormon, now filling in for Delia Russell) has four more recordings scheduled for April, a date to sing on the Colgate Comedy Hour's Easter Sunday broadcast, and a projected movie short. Easter billing: "The Four Girls Making a Joyful Noise unto the Lord...