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8XQ MP if ft BUGS 0OfS life AKf 1 Sj Comedy Lady Already tossed out the Smith College Club and a whole floor of airline stewardesses and pilots Las Vegas unions are appealing to the Teamsters to back them up in a strike against all the big casino-hotels. Tough decision the Teamsters hold scads of Vegas mortgages. The Lambs Club darkened all its long-play red ink to black; it'll toss a happy bash to celebrate its solvency. It was forced to peddle its legendary E. 44th St.

clubhouse (it's now renting a full floor from the Women's Republican Club on 51st St. just west of Fifth One episode of "Roots" not only topped the all-time TV ratings (beat GWTW and the Super Bowl!) six of its episodes decorate the list of Top 10 specials ever Jackie Eigen says we won't believe it but Gordon MacRae leaving a Fort Lauderdale restaurant got to the revolving door same time as Ronnie Wayne. Ronnie said, "After you." Gordon flipped, "You were." Both were married to Sheila MacRae CBS Inc. had 527,000,000 to toy with so it bought an international toy firm, Gabriel Industries Stork Club founder Sherman Billingsley's widow Hazel is living quite affluently in Plantation, Fla. Joe Namath will start a disco-restau rant in Fort Lauderdale with his old bar pal Bobby Van; Bobby was Joe's partner in a Lexington Ave.

saloon until football czar Pete Rozelle decreed No Dice Joe doesn't have his name on his doorbell; uses a baby-food alias to keep the nymphs away The first talented lass to sing "What I Did for Love" in the original "Chorus Line" troupe, Pris-cilla Lopez, told us at Los Madriles abaft the Alvin Theater she'll star in Norman Lear's next videocy, "From the she'll play a nun! Just imagine what Norman Lear jests can do to a nun's role It's about a plainclothes nun with a storefront convent. Johnny Carson doesn't seem able to finish a show without a jape apiece about "cloning" and Dolly Parton Olive Leeds, widow of centimillionaire tinpiate heir Billy Leeds (who won the nouveau riche award annually with his 350-foot seagoing yacht parked in front of his East River pad back when it was deductible), just wed a lad half her age. TV's sex cymbal, Suzanne Somers, will clang into sight in the July High Society mag topless. Not the first nekkid pix of this brassy boob tube sensation Patti Page's manager. Jack Raei, (made -both of them rich) and his wife agree on everything in the split except money Have a longshot in 3Y JACK C'BRIAN Kathryn Crosby's writing TWO books abcut Bmg Alan King attacking Jimmy Carter is the first feeble sign Teddy Kennedy's jogging just before lie stumbles toward the White House Kenny Sadie Youngman celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary in Miami Beach.

Irv Welzer headed an airlift of Friars Club pals who jetted down to hoist a Manischewitz or two. Mazeltov Here's a startler: RCA, which virtually invented radios, doesn't even manufacture them any more. One network and one local TV anchorman have had face-hoists: the network ger.t had the double chin singled; the local de-wrinkled everything 'Jackie Kennedy, ior aU her $26,000,000 settlement, doesn't have a limo, poor underprivileged urchin; she just dials a radio cab Terrible-tempered Mr. Tennis. Hie Nastase, is shopping for a Palm Springs condominium in the $200,000 range.

The brand new owner (Irish Airlines) of the Berkshire Hotel ordered Ethel Merman out within 30 days; doesn't want any more permanent guests, not even the distinguished First Musical Suzanne Somers Jimmy Carter's Washington Derby: Rep. Barbara Jordan to nose out the next Supreme Court handicap. EP0D fields 13 ce2 3 mitu selves geb PHYLLIS DATTCLU what the polls record is the spread of a term, not of the experience itself." Of course, Billy Graham's evangelism preceded the others and led the way to the born-again spirit by sending his message "This could be your re-birthday" across the media. Graham's crusade was bigger than rock concerts except the Beatles', of course) in the '60s, and he preached the message of God speaking directly to the individual not necessarily through the Scriptures or a church pastor, but through the individual emotions of a human being sitting amid 50,000 other human beings in a stadium: These were real revival meetings, much like the evangelistic meetings of old, but magnified a thousand times. They asked for each person to make a personal commitment to Christ.

The theme was "save yourself." Not your formal church, necessarily you. nonevangelical forms of religion," the researchers say. It's as though they think the experience itself is self-sustaining. As for the near doubling of the numbers of born-again Christians, it is quite probable the publicized rebirths of such prominent Protestants as President Carter and his sister, Ruth, and Watergate and porn-publishing converts Chuck Colson and Larry Flynt, have given people a new term for an old experience. "Is it simply an accident that Baptists make up 20 of the population, the number calling itself born-again in (the Gallup poll of) 1963?" asks Garry Wills, author and professor of humanities at Johns Hopkins University.

"By the time Chuck Colson wrote a best-seller called 'Born one did not have to be a Baptist to accept this description Colson himself is not one. If this is true. life," says an 89-year-old Methodist very dear to me. "And yet I have never had one of the 'mystical experiences' they all talk about." Ministers, priests and rabbis often are baffled, too, at the survey results. What appears to be a remarkable growth in evangelistic fervor has not resulted in an upswing in church attendance.

Although Gallup reports that "nearly all Americans." belong to a church, our local pastor says wistfully, "God only knows what they do on Sunday morning." What appears to be paradoxical may become understandable when the magazine survey is analyzed. Those who have had the intensely personal born-again experience do not necessarily give their support to organized religion. Many are convinced they have been personally saved" and often "look with distrust and even disdain on Christians who prefer A Gallup poll finds that one American in three has had a "born again'' religious experience. That is a conservative figure, compared with a magazine (McCall's) survey of 60.U00 women, which shows a major ity 5fc consider themselves born a.uaiu. These are astounding figures, considering that only 15 years ago, Gallup found only 20 who described a born-arfain religiosity.

Thousands of self-pro claimed Christians may weil wonder why they have bte.n cr.eiuried from the owing multitudes who have found new hie through a personal encounter Cnrist. "I am a devout I have gone to church almost every Sunday rf my Dn. JGYCS BROTHERS are relatively unlikely to drink if their parents don't. Many parents are, unfortunately, so relieved that their youngsters aren't on harder drugs that they minimize the danger of alcohol. Dear Dr.

Brothers: I know smoking is bad for me. My father died of lung cancer so I've seen the pain that's involved with this kind of death. I've tried five different times to discipline myself and stop smoking, but each time, after a few days I weaken and I'm back into the habit again. I loathe admitting I can't stop on my own. This is a challenge I'd like to meet and I feel I should be able to overcome this habit Each time I fail, I dislike myself more.

What can I do? C.V. Dear C.V.: I'd suggest putting your pride on a shelf and going, as fast as your legs will carry you, to any reputable group, and getting help. You're addicted to nicotine. You're not going to win any medals by kicking the habit on your own. If you can do it, fine.

If you can't, reach out and get assistance. People smoke for a lot of different reasons, but most people who try to stop find that there are times when they especially want to smoke. You can learn something about yourself if you take note of just when these times are for you. Usually, it will be when you feel most tense, perhaps when you are faced with a difficult assignment, when you are talking on the phone, when you are drinking, or at social functions. Dear Dr.

Brothers: I've been a high-school teacher for 15 years. Over the past six or seven years I've noticed a tremendous increase in kids who are already hooked on alcohol. This bothers me but there's very little I can do about it because most of the parents seem not to care, or they drink so much themselves, they wouldn't be aware of anything unusual if the kids came home drunk. I have made reports to parents and usually I don't even hear from them. If I do, they minimize the problem.

I'm in a suburban school and most of my students are what I'd call overprivileged. Do you think this is part of the problem? P.P. Dear P.P.: From my own experience I'd say, "yes," it is part of the problem, but statistics don't bear out my feelings. At least, a recent Gallup Poll survey found that when the teenagers are examined by the socio-economic groups to which they belong, very few important differences are found, except by age. Teenagers whose parents drink are more than two-and-a-half times as likely to drink as teens whose parents are nondrinkers.

This is particularly true in the case of younger teens of both sexes, nonwhite teens from Protestant homes, teens living in the South and to a lesser extent, teens from blue-collar families. In each of these groups, teenagers.