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Show Walter Scotts Personality Parade Want the facts? Want to learn the truth about prominent personalities? Want informed opinion? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 7333rd Ave., New Ycrk, N.Y. 10017. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail received makes personal replies impossible. Q. I would like to know who paid for the Robert Kennedy funeral train from New York City to Washington, D.C.? Is it not true that on specific orders from President Johnson, the entire bill was taken care of by the federal government to the tune of $30,000? Alice Lake Carruthers, Sea Island, Go. A. Not true. The special funeral train cost approximately $ 1 5,000, was paid for by the Kennedy family. Q. Does the U.S. spend more on chemical and germ Helen warfare than it does on cancer research? Roberts, Charlotte, N.C. A. Yes. The government spends approximately $300 million on chemical and biological warfare, much less on cancer research. lots of women on assault charges which have been hushed up because hes in films? Ed Casey, Toledo, Ohio. A. Brown, father of three, has been cleared of previous assault and paternity charges several of which have been well publicized. ' Q. The late Sen. Q. I read the other day that Julie Christie and Warren Beatty have been living in a Los Angeles penthouse. Isnt there something the studios can do about this? Ceorgianna Scott, Gainesville, Fla. A. Neither Miss Christie nor Mr. Beatty is under exclusive contract to any one studio. Hollywood studios no longer control the private lives of their players. Miss Christie has explained many times that she prefers living with a man to marrying him. Q. I am interested to know if Lyndon Johnson has interceded in the case of Bobby Baker to keep him out of jaU. Baker is now serving time at The Carousel Motel, Ocean City, Md. John C. Crumbaugh, Washington, D.C. A. President Johnson has scrupulously avoided interfering in the Bobby Baker case. Baker owns The Carousel Motel which is why he spends time there. Q. When actress Faye Dunaway teas living with the late comic Lenny Bruce, teas he not on the heavy stuff? C. T., New York, N.Y. A. For years prior to his death comedian Bruce was a narcotics addict, tried pretty nearly everything. Q. The chaplain of Yale University, William Sloane how do the Yale Coffin students and faculty feel about him? Are they for or against him in the federal indictment charging him and Dr. Spock with conspiracy to help young William Cilhooley, Stamford, presidential campaign? Red Peters, Laurel, Miss. A. Many industrialists report privately that a contribution to Wallaces campaign never hurt when it came to selling their wares to the state of Alabama during the gubernatorial incumbency of the Wallaces. Since Mrs. Wallaces death, however, and the ascendancy of Albert Brewer to the governors job, several of these industrialists are not quite so ready to support Wallace financially. Q. Jim Brown, the former Cleveland Browns football star turned actor, was recently invoiced with a model in Los Angeles. The newspapers said he threw her off his balcony. Hasnt Brown been involved with It President, Arthur Motley Editor, Jess Gorkin Art Director, ANTHONY LA ROTONDA NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE JULY 14, 1968 Ambassador to Vietnam? Frederick T. James, Elk-toMd. A. Yes, in 1964, but President Johnson declined the offer. Q. My son who has fust returned from Vietnam tells me that most of the corruption there springs from the fact that the PX employs 5 000 Vietnamese women who steal us blind and sell everything to the black market. Is this the source of corruption in South Vietnam? Mrs. Harold Chase, Madison, Wis. A. The U.S. does employ 5000 Vietnamese clerks in its PX system but these clerks are small frv. The major corruptions emanate from the South Vietnamese elite and military castes. Q. Now that Lurleen Wallace has passed on, isnt George Wallace finding it tough to raise funds for his men avoid the draft? Conn. A. At the Yale commencement exercises last month, a religious ceremony was interrupted when Coffin approached the podium to lead the congregation in prayer. The graduating class of 68, their parents, and the Yale deans gave Coffin a thunderous, spontaneous, standing ovation. Said Coffin, I thank you and I appreciate this, but you are letting your generosity exceed your judgment. THE SUNDAY FRANKIE AND AVA WHEN THEY WERE HAPPY MARRIED COUPLE Q. Is Ava Gardner still in love with Sinatra? Was he not the great love of her life? Eloise Jenkins, Smith-fielN.C. A. Gardner and Sinatra are still good friends. They were married at a time when Sinatras career was at low tide. Otherwise it might have worked out. Publisher, Wf.rren J. Reynolds Executive Vice President, Editor Associate Assistant Women's Ted Stulz At Large, LLOYD SHEARER Managing Editor, EDWIN KlbSTER JR. Editors: NEAL ASHBY, HERBERT KUPFERBERC, DAVID PALEY, JOHN G. ROGERS Art Director, GEORGE J. ZYMARAKIS Assistant to the Editor, MARION LONG Editorial Assistants: CAROL DUNLAP, SUSAN KLEIN Home Economics, DEMETRIA TAYLOR Editor, Rosalind MASSOW Fashion, Virginia pope Cartoon Editor, LAWRENCE LARIAR Washington: Bureau Chief, JACK ANDERSON; FRED BLUMENTHAL, OPAL GINN. 1968. Parade Publications Ine.,733 Third Ave., New York, N.Y., 10017. All right reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. Reproduction in whole or in part of any article without permission is prohibited. fsiuoeS; Marca Re. 8 Rob- ert Kennedy did he volunteer to become U.S. |
