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Show WALTER SCOTT'S Want the facts? Want to spike rumors? Want to learn the truth about prominent personalities? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 733 3rd Ave., New York, N.Y., 1001 7. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail received makes personal replies impossible. Q. Who was the first Negro Ph D. in the U.S. ? Merlin Richardson, Topeka, Kans. A. The first U.S. Negro to win his Ph.D. was Patrick Francis Healy, S.J., who had to go to Belgium to win his degree. In 1874, Healy was inaugurated as president of Georgetown University, oldest Catholic university in the nation. The first Negro to win a Ph.D. in an American institution was Edward Bouchet, who received his doctorate in physics from Yale in 1876. is rife that if and when Senator Eugene McCarthy is divorced, he will marry Mrs. Shana Alexander of Life magazine. Can this be? I V. , Chevy Chase, Md. A. No truth to the rumor. Senator McCarthy and Shana Alexander are members of a mutual admiration society, but Mrs. Alexander is in love with an Irish screenwriter to whom she will soon be married. Q. The rumor here Q. Whom will the Democratic Party offer as presidential candidates in 1972? Isn't Sen. Ted Kennedy a Nathan Berenson, Springfield, Mass. A. Senator Kennedy of Massachusetts who alienates 'neither the old nor the reformist wing of the party is one potential candidate. Another is Sen. Edward Muskie of Maine, a man of Lincolnesque charisma who shows much grace under pressure. Hubert Humphrey, a political warhorse of great adaptive facility is a third outside possibility providing he learns to control his logorrhea. shoe-in- ? a photo of the attire worn by actress Williams the preview of the film. Star. Was at Edy Miss Williams denied entrance to the theatre because of her lack of dress? Or was it all a publicity stunt? Jamie Knox, Los Angeles, Calif. A. In her choice of dress for the occasion. Miss Williams showed almost everything (below) but good taste. It was not a studio publicity stunt but a personal one. Q. Please run MIA FARROW WITH WARREN BEATTY Is it true that Mia Farrow, the Frank Sinatra, had a big thing in Paris with Warren Beatty ? Donna Freed, Fredericksburg, Va. A. Miss Farrow who is a free soul these days visited Beatty in his Paris dressing room, where she turned on, smoking her favorite brand of cigarettes. Q. s. Zeigler who handles the press lor President ever a newspaperman ? I know he worked lor the Walter Thompson Advertising Agency. What did he do there ? E.L., Covington, Ky. A. Zeigler was not a working newspaperman. He was an account executive at ). Walter Thompson in Los Angeles, working on the following accounts: Seven-U- p of Los Angeles, Blue Chip Stamps, Walt Disbey Productions, and station KNBC. Q. Whatever happened to a cute little singer named lane Powell? At one time she was under contract to MCM. Vivian Waterman, lack: jnville, Fla. A. Miss Powell (above), born Suzanne Burch in Portland, Ore., 40 years ago, makes personal appear- ances, sings and dances frequently programs. on television Q. Supposedly President Nixon had psychotherapeutic treatments by a Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker in New York City in I960. Doesn't that prove that Nixon is a thoughtful man interested in the examination and improvement of self? C.R., Princeton, N.. A. It proves exactly that. Q.- Ron Nixon was he . My journalism teacher says that the word, "news has its origin in the first letters of the four points of the compass. North, Fast, West, and South. Is this true ? Leona Creene, Pasadena, Calif. A. In Old English the word, "news", was spelled "niwes." Later it was spelled "newes." Around 1610, the current spelling, "news," was first used. Q. Parade THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE DECEMBER 29, 1968 Q. What is the approximate cost of a heart transplant? Is it covered by insurance? Peter Ho, Hyatts-vill- Q. What is the relationship, please, between Dodo and Elmer Bobst and the Richard Nixons? L.E. Ledbetter, Hickory, N C. A. Elmer Bobst, 84, head of Warner-LambePharmaceuticals, is known as "Dick Nixon's honorary father." He and his Lebanese wife, Mamdouah "Dodo" Bobst spend nearly every Christmas, with the Nixons. Bobst met the President 16 years ago, has ever since been one of his most enthusiastic supporters and rt fund-raiser- s. editor, Jess Gorkin publisher, Warren J. Reynolds executive vice president, Ted Stulz president, Arthur H. Motley LA ROTONDA ANTHONY art director, editor at large, LLOYD SHEARER associate editors: NEAL ASHBY, HERBERT KUPFERBERG, LINDA GLITSTEIN, DAVID PALEY, JOHN C. ROGERS editorial assistants: SUSAN KLEIN, VIViANE assistant to the editor, MARION LONG assistant art director, GEORGE . ZYMRAKIS fashion. VIRGINIA POPE cartoon editor,- LAWRENCE home economics, DEMETRIA TAYLOR women's editor, ROSALIND MASSOW GINN. Washington: bureau chief, JACK ANDERSON; FRED BLUMENTHAL, OP-sParade Publications, Inc . 731 Third Ave.. New York, N Y., 10017 All rights reserved under International and Pan Amt ican Copyright Conventions Reproduction in whole or in part of any article without permission is prohibited PARADE, Marta Reg I8, 2 e, Md. A. An estimated cost is $35,000, too expensive to be covered generally by health insurance. PETER LARIAR |