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Si; mmmmmmm PEOPLE t- 4 A en -3 03 to to i 17 Associated Press photo Miss Vicki: happiness is Tiptoes Out of Garden IIIIJIIII jn.lmplr llltll r.4t i -1 News photos by Harry Hamburg LaMura Noone: kissin' Laffin' Soap Suds in the Park Apparently the Big Apple is still a place everybody wants to visit especially lovers sneaking away for a weekend. That was striking divorcee Ellen Shepherd and Tier younger-man swain, Mark Dalton, from Pine Valley, laughing and acting like lovers in Central Park the other day. If they think their little sneak-away went unnoticed, however, they've got another think coming. A camera, in fact, recorded their every move and sound equipment took down every sigh. That's because Ellen is really actress Kathleen Noone and Mark is really actor Mark LaMura, and they both portray characters in the TV soap opera, "All My Children Kathleen that is, Ellen has moved back to Pine Valley after a divorce and is trying to put her life together, you see, and now this new budding romance is (Organ music CHANGING EVERYTHING! Abe, Mary Find Pad Last week, we told you that Mary and Abe Beanie were busy looking all over the East Side for a place to stay -after they vacate Gracie Mansion on Dec.

31. They've found it a 4 -room, 15th floor apartment in a co-op at 79th St. and Third Ave. Ecstatic, Mary spent yesterday with decorators at the pad, which sources say is in the price range they were seeking: about $50,000. Mary hasn't lived in Manhattan since she was -16; except for his time in Gracie Mansion, Abe has never resided on the isle.

The present owners plan to be out by Thanksgiving, which will give Mary the chance to make it nice 'n comfy for her hubby of 49 years by the time retirement day arrives. She also hopes to convince him to take a European vacation in January. Helping her check out furnishings was Cindy Adams, wife of comic Joey Adams, who toasted Abe: "May you grow bigger and better in the next year." To which, Beame responded: "With God's help I may grow better, but I'm never going to grow bigger," 1 1 jTiamiTi mm msmm i Tiny tears? Can a marriage forged by God and performed on the Johnny Carson TV show be torn asunder? It can. Miss Vicki, the former Victoria Budinger of Haddonfield, NJ, sailed into Superior Court in Camden yesterday to rid herself of falsetto-voiced singer Tiny Tim, whom she married in 1969 on the "Tonight" show. They separated in 1975.

As for Tiny, he was tiptoeing through Florida on a concert tour and his lawyer, Philip Paley, said he was too busy to show up. "He's accountable to this court first, not to the entertainment calendar," snapped Judge Paul Low en-grub. Parley argued that Tiny "believes strongly that what God hath joined, no man shall put asunder." He also wants custody of his daughter Tulip. Judae Lowengrub, however, granted Miss Vicki her divorce. The problem of Tulip's custody was not settled.

Vive La France! Okay, so the S.S. France isn't a "People." But it sure has carried its share of the beautiful folk during its 17-year career and so, a few hearts must be beating easier after it was saved yesterday from the mothball fleet. Our Bernard Valery reports that Saudi Arabian businessman Akkram Ojjeh plans to convert the world's largest and most luxurious ocean liner taken out of service in 1974 because of rising costs into a floating hotel or seagoing amusement Jacques Friedmann. who heads the government-controlled French Line, said Ojjeh would pay between $12 million and $20 million for the vessel. Ojjeh was described as a lover of France who already has been awarded the Legion of Honor for services rendered.

He may be in line for another one. si Stop the Presses? Brown Woos Biz Here Fresh from a weekend campaign swing for Gov. Byrne in New Jersey, California's Gov. Jerry Brown crossed the river yesterday to pay a "quiet" visit to a number of business moguls here. And although he said the purpose of the trip was not to wrest jobs from the Big Apple or to promote possible presidential ambitions.

Brown looked and sounded like he was doing both. "I'm here to let businessmen know that we have a climate open to business in California," Brown said as he entered the New York Stock Exchange. As for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. (in the guv said the query was like asking "What you're going to do in a second marriage, when you haven't finished the first one." Earlier in Jersey, Brown wasn't what you'd call effusive about Jimmy Carter's performance so far. Sturm-und-drang, it seems, accompanies both the birth and death of a newspaper.

The newest voice trying to make itself heard, a proposed morning paper to be called The Trib and scheduled to appear Jan. 9, is Having it's internal squabbles already. Publisher Leonard Saffir said yesterday he has "demanded and accepted the resignation of former Treasury Secretary William Simon as chairman of the board, "because I would not compromise the independence of professional newspaper people." Saffir complained that Simon, who was elected chairman Aug. 8, "has been trying to bring in very highly visible, controversial figures who are friends of his as stockholders." Saffir said he resisted Simon's efforts, and Simon "deliberately neglected his obligations as chairman." Simon had nothing to say at the moment. Ji -'i Princess Meg in New York (and following at left Colin Tennent).

Princess Meg Was a 'Lady-in-Waiiinq' Don't look now, but that really was Britain's Princess Margaret at Kennedy Airport yesterday. She arrived in the Big Apple for a "private visit." Queen Elizabeth's sis was late, a victim of the air traffic control assistants' strike at London's Heathrow Airport. Meg, who is estranged from hubby Anthony Armstrong-Jones (call him Lord Snowdon, please), was accompanied by Colin Tennent, the former owner of the Caribbean island of Mustique where she has a holiday home. The princess arrived at Heathrow in the back Of a Rolls-Royce with Tennent sitting in the front, next to the driver. They then were forced to wait in the VIP (where else?) lounge for nearly an hour because of the labor problems.

Meg. incidentally, is expected to attend the dinner-dance of the Anglo-American ontemporary Dancejiundation at the Pierre, Thursday. Don Flvnn and Phil Roura jH't i' i. st'! Mr-r-. vit -tf.