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Detroit Free Press from Detroit, Michigan • Page 62

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WALTER SCOTT'S PERSONALITY PARADE Q. What is the real name of singer Brenda Lee? Jules Henry Marr, Albuquerque, NJtl. A. Brenda Lee Tapley. Q.

Who invented color photography? Salome C. Perree, Dayton, Ohio. A. The first experiments with color film were initiated by two music students, Leo Mannes and Leopold Godowski, in Rochester, N.Y., in the early 1930s. Photography was their hobby and after calling Eastman Kodak for some special dyes, they went on and worked for the company in perfecting Koda-chrome film.

Q. would like to know how old Hayley Mills is, how much she is paid for her movie work and where I can write to her. C.G., Lewistown, Pa. A. Miss Mills is 1 5.

She is at present under long-term contract to Walt Disney at $2,500 a week, and can be contacted through Walt Disney Productions either in Burb.ink, or London SW 1, England. Q. How come nothing has been printed in American newspapers of Kostromskoi and Jaroslavski, two Russian spies apprehended in London recently? Is this whole thing a conspiracy of silence by the American press? W.B., Washington, D.C. A. Kostromskoi and Jaroslavski are the names of two types of Russian cheese recently imported into England.

Q. Can you tell me who is the current chess champion of the United States? E.W Erie, Pa. A. Eighteen-year-old Bobby Fischer. 1 If you have a question of interest on a personality of note, send it to Walter Scott, parade, 285 Madison New York 17, N.Y.

Names will be used unless requested otherwise in writing. parade cannot reply individually to the inquiries of its readers. Q. I would like to know if our two lady senators, Margaret Chase Smith of Maine and Maurine Neuberger of Oregon, go swimming with the men senators in the Senate swimming pool? Eve Shine, Newark, NJ. As yet they haven't.

Q. Who owns the world's fastest luxury yacht? Bob Young, Greenwich, Conn. A. Stavros Niarchos, the Greek millionaire. He is the owner of the Mercury, which has a top speed of 54 knots.

Q. Who is Donna Reed's real husband? Is he the man who plays the part of her husband on her television program? K. Conforti, Santa Clara, Calif. A. Miss Reed is married to a former agent and the current producer of her television show, Tony Owen.

Q. What is the salary of Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy? Mrs. Ella Cunningham, Roanoke, Va. A.

The Attorney General's salary is the same as that of all other members of the President's cabinet $25,000. Q. Please name Joan Crawford's husbands, and while married to which ones did she adopt her children? Paulette Francis, Bangor, Me. A. Douglas Fairbanks Franchot Tone, Philip Terry and the late Alfred Steele.

Miss Crawford and. her third husband, Philip Terry, adopted a son, Christopher. Her three daughters were adopted when she was between husbands. Q. Did Wilma Rudolph, who led the US.

Olympic women's team by breaking three world's records, ever suffer from polio as a child? Asa Burd, Nashville, Tenn. A. No she suffered from a temporary arrest of growth in the area of her right ankle when she was 5, caused by the effects of scarlet fever, pneumonia and malnutrition. Q. How many children did Henry Ford, the auto industrialist have? Was Edsel an adopted son? Robustiano M.

Cruz, Detroit, Mich. A. Henry Ford had one natural-born son, the late Edsel, no other children. Q. Where was Rudolph Valentino born? Peggy Brown, Fort Worth, Tex.

A. Valentino was born Rodolfo Guglielmi in Castellaneta, Italy, on May 10, 1895. cgaivwrmp I 1 Joan Crawford and Philip Terry, third of her four husbands. THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE SEPTEMBER 17. 1961 JESS GORKIN, Editor ARTHUR H.

MOTLEY, President and Publisher Donald Wayne Lou Sardella Managing Editor Art Director Morton Yarmon, Associate Managing Editor Robert P. Goldman Edwin Kiester, Jr. Associate Editors 1961, parade Publications, 285 Madison New York 17, N. Y. All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions.

Reproduction in whole or in part of any article without permission is prohibited. Marca Reg. Douglas R. Steinbauer, Assistant Art Director Demetria Taylor, Home Economics Director Virginia Pope, Fashion Editor Jack Anderson, Fred Blumenthal, Washingon bureau Lloyd Shearer, West Coast bureau.

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