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you nskil llml! Mim II VAMBNKH. Ql Didn't Ernest Hemingway always do his writing while under the influence of alcohol? Basil Ryan, St. Louis A You can scotch that rumor. Hemingway once told Canada's famous photographer, Karsh, when he sat for a portrait, "I don't drink while writing I can't write serious stuff and drink." Is it true that when basketball whiz Lew Alcindor (now with the Milwaukee Bucks) played for UCLA the coach had to keep him in the dressing room till the game was over because he wouldn't stand for the "Star-Spangled Ban-ner'7 Richard Olsen, Miami, Fla. A I "No!" says John Wooden, head basketball coach at UCLA.

"Neither Lew Alcindor nor any other player on any of my teams has ever failed to stand while the National Anthem was being played. Sometimes my team will be on the floor when it's being played, sometimes we will be in the dressing room. This was my policy before Alcindor and wili continue in the future. Many participants do not stand strictly at attention and our players have been no different from players on other teams or spectators." Ernest Hemingway Ql Is it true that the onetime tough L.A. vice-squad cop who helped Confidential magazine in a courtroom fight for survival back in the mid-'50s is now a hairdresser? A.

Arthur, Seattle Al Hardly a hairdresser! He's a prosperous owner-operator of a Lilly Dache beauty and cosmetic salon franchise in Bal Harbour, Fla. Fred Otash just got tired of being involved in hair-raising investigations with such stars as Rory Calhoun, Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, Gable, Errol Flynn, and, speaking generically, switched to hair-cutting. Has the name of that new recording group, three Dog Night, got any significance? Marti Henn, Beaumont, Tex. A In a way, I guess. Its origin goes back to the Australian aborigines who got their heat sleeping with their hunting dogs.

The colder the weather, the more dogs they needed. Hence, a "three dog night" is a mighty chilly one. It war hero Audie Murphy the brother-in-law of TV hero Robert of the Stack? Barbara Olander, Cleveland. A I No. But there's a tangled connection.

Audie was married to actress Wanda Hendrix. When they divorced she married Robert Stack's brother, James. Recently Wand? wandered over to a third husband, oil man Steve LaMont. Ql What song title do you consider best reflects today's mood and morals? J.O.R., Buffalo A "A Boy Named Sue." It's high on the charts via a Johnny Cash waxing. Personal Postcards: To Pat Fox, St Louis No, Joe DiMaggio didn't marry Richard Widmark's daughter.

He's still batting champ of the Bachelor League To A. L. Marrow, Bear, and W.L.E., Peoria, 111. CBS-News president Richard S. Salant advises us that Martin Agronsky left the network to become anchorman for Washington's WTOP-TV's 6 to 7 p.m.

news To Mrs. C. Leppert, Cincinnati It was Leslie Caron, in 1955, who made "Daddy Long Legs," not Shirley Temple or Mary Pickford To Walter Farrar, Ft Lauderdale, Fla. Stars of "The Great Ziegfeld" movie included William Powell, Myrna Loy, Luise Rainer, and Fanny Brice. It won three Oscars: Best Picture of 1936, Best Actress (Miss Rainer), and Best Dance Director (Seymour Felix) To Marcus Abe, Penn-sauken, N.J.

Actor Warner Oland, who played "Charlie Chan," was not Chinese; he just had a good makeup man. Lew Alcindor What's the going rate for bestsellers bought by movie companies today as compared with yesterday? M.H.A., Pittsburgh A. $1.5 million for Jackie Su-sann's 'The Love for Philip Roth's "Portnoy's a cool million asked for "The Pretenders" by Gwen Davis. Compare them with the $50,000 which Margaret Mitchell received 30 years ago for "Gone With the Wind." Do you have a question about your favorite famous personality 8eud your questions to Hy Gardner, "Glad You Asked That," Post Office Box tSOS, New York, N.Y. 10017.

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