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...partisan and postwar Red Deputy, had become Togliatti's mistress, though 27 years his junior. So completely did the buxom, black-haired girl from Reggio Emilia capture the affections and feed the ego of the brilliant, moody Togliatti that he got a legal separation from his wife, Rita Mon-tagnana, a white-haired intellectual, and went off to live with Nilde Jotti in a high-walled villa on Rome's Monte Sacro (Sacred Mountain...
...year on CBS The Danny Thomas Show has benefited from a better time slot (Mon. 9 p.m., E.S.T.) and higher exposure (93 more stations than it had on ABC). But more important in Danny's rise from Nielsen's nowhere is that CBS's Danny has quit striving for gags that were foreign to its situations or strained for premises to justify its jokes. Says Thomas: "Comedy just for comedy's sake is barking up the wrong cliche. Comedy has to come out of the situation to have any staying power...
Most Likely . . . (Dick Johnson, with Dave McKenna, piano; Wilbur Ware, bass; "Philly" Joe Jones, drums; Riverside). An alto saxophonist with wit and a springy, willow-green reed sound, Johnson bounces through a few of his own sunny fancies (Aw C'mon Hoss, Me 'n' Dave), gives fresh nuances to some twilit standards (It's So Peaceful in the Country, The End of a Love Affair). Among his best: a gusty frolic called Lee-Antics, which rings its intricate changes with geysering exuberance, builds to a stunning solo flight on the drums...
...shows shrugged off book learning: How Do You Rate? (Mon.-Thurs., 10:30 a.m., E.S.T.) matched the sexes in frantic little contests of mental and physical dexterity (reading garbled messages, changing light bulbs); Wingo (Tues. 8:30 p.m.) hustled over low-plateau quiz questions (name the first big battle of the Civil War) to select a contestant for the show's big moment-a whack at spelling Wingo by drawing blindly from an assortment of the word's letters. Probability of hitting Wingo and winning...