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...Shall he [or she] go for it?" had been asked every week since the program's first contestant drew in sight of the big jackpot. By the time Bible-quoting Mrs. Catherine Kreitzer and Opera Lover Gino Prato stopped at $32,000. newspapers were explaining (often with contradictory results) just how much a final winner would have to give the Government in taxes. Most figurers agreed that if a contestant won a $64,000 jackpot, his additional $32,000 would be pared down to a mere $10,000 by the cruel revenooers...
...experts who would answer questions on their specialties. Adman Norman Norman sees Panelopoly as a sort of postgraduate course for contestants who have tried for the top money on The $64,000 Question. Explains Norman: "I got to thinking along this line when I realized that Mrs. Kreitzer and Gino Prato and Gloria Lockerman [the speller] were still big news long after they left the show. Why shouldn't we continue to take advantage of these people? They belong on Panelopoly...
...vastest audiences ever assembled for purposes of unabashed materialism, Gino Prato, the humble Bronx shoemaker, softly read aloud a cablegram from his papa in Italy, roughly translated: "It is enough. Stay where you are." Said Gino: "Because I take my daddy's advice since I was a kid, I accept it now . . . and take...
...bless you, Gino!" cried Master of Ceremonies Hal March. Millions (estimated viewers: 47,560,000) sighed with relief. The tidings were reported in newspapers across the U.S., even in Europe...
...years, TV's already enfeebled yearning to leaven commercialism with culture. The Manufacturers Trust Co. executive who sits each Tuesday night between guards (the real thing, from the same bank), to lend an air of reliability to the promised payoff, was promoted recently to full vice president. Gentle Gino Prato, who won thousands of hearts as well as thousands of dollars ($22,916 after taxes) in his five appearances on the show, was taken on as a good-will ambassador by a rubber heel and sole company at more than $10,000 a year. One of the show...