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Miss Giovanna Ferrara, 23, an Italian chemistry student who used a knowledge of American history to win a total of $24,000 on Italian and American quiz programs, will visit the University at 2:30 p.m. today as part of a government-sponsored tour of Greater Boston...
Attempting to lend more dignity to beauty contests-an institution which the church has consistently opposed-the promoters of the Miss Italy contest at Rimini decided to put all entrants through a culture quiz. The results were disastrous. The beauties could not identify Hamlet, Lucrezia Borgia, or even Romulus and Remus (said one: "Greek twins''). None knew the boiling point of water, which in Italy is a simple 100°C. One was unable to name a single Italian wine-her brave try: "Champagne." Without congratulating the winner, Nives Zegna, 19, of Milan, the Vatican's eminent...
...from one admirer, and the company eagerly plunged into commercialism to raise the rest. Singers Jeanne Beauvais, Norman Myrvik, Francis Barnard and Musical Director Lucille Burnham gave all the concerts they could. Stage Manager Beth Leibowitz made and sold ceramics, while Company Manager Richard Flusser hopefully entered a TV quiz show named Tic Tac Dough (he won a watch, but no dough). By last month they were so nearly solvent that they embarked...
...already launched High Finance (Sat. 10:30 p.m.), an audience participation quiz looking for contestants "who want to satisfy their life's ambitions," i.e., hauling away...
...giveaway shows, as many critics claim, debasing TV and offering a vulgar substitute for real entertainment? A few winning contestants have been dogged by their fame and fortune into worthwhile pursuits, or received lifetime annuities in odd ways. One giveaway winner now has his own local quiz program, another is being pressured to run for Congress. Stock Market Wizard Leonard Ross, II, who won $100,000 on The Big Surprise, is busy studying the price of coffee in the U.S. for a leading Brazilian businessman. Marine Corps Captain Dick McCutchen, who won the jackpot on both $64,000 shows...