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Walter Personality Parade tent the facts? Want to spike rumors? Want to learn the truth about prominent personalities? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 733' lew York, N.Y. 10017. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail received makes personal replies i The Road to Salesmanship published in 1941. Following his retirement from the candy business, he founded the John Birch Society.

Q. Is it true that Ann- Margret has gone Ford, Chicago, Itt. A. True. Q.

Why won't French hotel-keepers give free soap to their patrons? 1 Q. When I was in Paris recently I heard that Brigitte Bardot had dumped her boy friend, Bob Zaguri, for Minister of Culture Andre Malraux. Is this Fairchild, New York, N.Y. A. Not true.

Her summer change this year is Bob Zaguri for Paul Albou, 43, Paris dentist. Q. The new comedy sensation of Europe is a man named Ted Lapidus. What can you tell us about him? Has he been signed for the Ed Sullivan TV program? --Helen Finch, Cleveland, Ohio. A.

Lapidus is a 3 5-year-old French dress designer who has done clothes for Marlene Dietrich, Lena Home, Geraldine Chaplin, other show business personalities. Q. What has happened to comedian Harold Lloyd and drummer Gene Irene Feldman Asbitry Park, NJ. A. Lloyd 72, retired from films, lives in Beverly Hills, is active in the Shriners.

Krupa, 56 (above), lives in Yonkcrs, N.Y., tours the country with his jazz quartet. Q. Robert Welch of the John Birch Society has described former President Eisenhower as "a dedicated, conscious agent of the Communist and Democracy as "merely a deceptive phrase) a weapon of demagoguery, and a perennial fraud." To me these statements smack of irresponsible extremism. I under' stand Welch was educated at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.

Wot he graduated, thrown out or did he Bethesda, Md. A. Welch entered the Naval Academy on 26 July 1917, resigned 18 December 1918. Said in his letter of resignation: "I have no indictment of the Navy to offer but am certain that the work not only is not what I want but is so opposed to my natural inclinations and plans that I should never be able to do it justice I have for several years desired to be a writer My conviction has grown, and I am now determined to make literature my profession Welch subsequently entered his family's candy business, wrote think it's Thedord, Ann Arbor, Mich. A.

The French Tourist Ministry recently ordered all two-star hotels to supply their visitors with soap, something French hoteliers for years have been reluctant to do. Q. What is the famous story about the Marx Brothers setting fire to MGM Tolen, Moscow, Mich. A. They never set fire to the studio.

Many years ago MGM producer Irving Thalberg kept the Marx Brothers waiting in the reception room of his large, impressive office suite. Irreverent by nature, the four brothers grew restless after 20 minutes of waiting. They sent out for a bag of potatoes. Thirty minutes later when Thalberg finally came out of his office, he found the quartet sitting in the nude, around his fireplace, roasting potatoes. He never kept the Marx Brothers waiting again.

Q. Who is Cassius Clay's girl in Egypt? Is she white? --VX. Jenkins, Louisville, Kg. A. Reportedly Enayat Mustafa, 20, white, waitress in the Nile Hilton Hotel fve read that Mn.

Churchill hat put up for sale Sir Winston's London home at Hyde Park Gate. How much is the Lerner, Saratoga, JV.Y. A. $600,000. Q.

There's a strong rumor that gambler Ray Ryan, partner with actor Bill Holden in the Mt. Kenya Safari Club, is afraid to return to the V.S. because the Mafia has "a contract" out on him. Is it on the level that they plan to grind him up in a cement S.L., Las Vegas, Nev. A.

Ryan blew the whistle on several gangsters in Las Vegas some time ago when they tried to extort money from him. The supposition is that the gang leader imprisoned because of Ryan's testimony will try to even the score one day. Q. Vve been told that we have seven Polaris missile- equipped submarines off the Red China coast. Do the Red Chinese have any submarines which can shoot nuclear missiles onto our Pacific Clifford, San Diego, Calif.

A. The Chinese have a fleet of 30 submarines, are in the process of building a long-range missile-firing sub capable of blasting nuclear warheads onto the American mainland. Q. Would you be kind enough to let me know what has happened to Christine Keeler, the British commercial cutie involved in the Profumo Jaffa, Wilmington, Del. A.

She has been cavorting on the French Riviera with a new love interest, an Italian, Mario del Mario. Q. The West German government has constantly been reproached for having placed former Nazis in high places. Isn't this also true of the Communist East German Benne, Fox Lake, III. A.

Yes, at least 300 former Nazis hold executive positions in the East German government. Q. How many times has singer Jane Powell been married? "What was the hoax played at her ding in Bickmore, Jackson, Wyo. A. Jane Powell was recently married for the third time.

Just before her wedding to press agent Jim Fitzgerald in Sydney, two university students posing as the actress and her bridegroom walked up a red carpet to the chapel where the wedding was scheduled to take place. The girl student playing the part of the bride suddenly cried out, "I can't go through with it," then fled. Guests and tators thought she was really Jane Powell. THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE AUGUST 22, 1965 Ptettofer, Arthur H. Mode? Editor, Jess Goricm Editor, EDWIN KKSTEB, IB.

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