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Show WAITER SCOH'S Want the facts? Want to learn the truth about prominent personalities? Want informed opinion? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 733 3rd Ave., New York, N.Y. 10017. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail received makes personal replies impossible. Q. Can you ted me if it is true that the most pres alent disease in veterans hospitals is alcoholism ? Susan Norris, St Louis. Mo. A. According to Dr. Samuel Kain of the Veterans Administration, approximately one out of every seven ,r eight VA hospital patients suffers from an alcohol-relatedisease is disability. But the number-on- e cardiovascular. And the greatest number of patients are hospitalized for psychiatric reasons. Q. I have been told that the greatest womanizers in the US. Senate in the past 30 years were John F. Kennedy, Estes Kelauver, George Smathers, and Henry Jackson. Were all these men great Casanovas? Louise T. Widens, Chicago , III. A. From time to time these dynamic, handsome men succumbed to the blandishments of the opposite sex. There have been others, however, equally handsome and appealing such as Senators Eugene McCarthy, Edward Kennedy, Birch Bayh, and of course Lyndon Johnson. LBJ in his young days was regarded as the Lochinvar of the Pedernales and only recently has enthralled Doris Kearns who teaches a course at Harvard on the Presidency and helped Lyndon write his book The Vantage Point. DOPJS KEARNS LYNDON IOHNSON Q. Why does Richard Nixon have such a deep, enduring, pervasive hatred of the American press? Victor Onslow, San Diego, Calif. A. Unlike some members of his entourage the President does not hate the press. He merely distrusts it, believing for years that it has treated him unfairly. Q. Walter Winched who raised millions for the Damon Runyon Cancer Fund is he himself dying of cancer? What is the story? Harold Wiener, New York, N.Y. A. Winchell is suffering from cancer of the prostate gland but is reacting Well to treatment in Los Angeles where he now resides. Q. How many foreigners live in Florida? And why has Castro stopped the Cuban airlift ? Enrico Mateo Lopez, Miami, Fla. s of the 314,596 foreigners living in FlorA. ida are Cuban. There are 210,797 Cubans, 28.089 Canadians, and 14,284 Britons. Castro is fearful of losing some of his most skilled machinists and Two-third- THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE OCTOBER 10, 1971 2 d actor Ryan O'Neal was previ? ously married before he married Leigh Calif. Jon Hunt, Hollywood, A. Yes, he was married to Joanna Moore, lost the custody battle for their two sons, Tatum and Griffin. He and Leigh Taylor-Youn- g have a son Patrjck Q. Can you tell me if Taylor-Young- HOLLYWOOD ROYALTY AT PLAY: THE LATE MIKE ROMANOFF DUBS THE LATE ERROL FLYNN A KNIGHT. true that the late Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling actor, was the illegitimate son of the late Mike Romanoff, Hollywood restaurateur? Denise Rubin, La Jolla, Calif. A. Romanoff who died recently at age 81 had no children, legitimate or otherwise. He and Flynn were fast friends, and in Hollywood's golden era involved in the most hilarious of gags. Q. Is it Q. Has Neile McQueen thrown her husband Steve McQueen out of their million dollar house? Kathleen McGinnity, Boston, Mass. A. Neile Adams McQueen, wife of actor Steve McQueen. 41 , has filed a petition for dissolution of their marriage in Santa Monica court. The McQueens were married in San Clemente, Calif., on Nov. 2, 1956, and were separated finally on June 1 , this year. They have two children, Terri Leslie, 12, and Chadwick Steven, 10. It is expected the couple will divide approximately $5 million in community property. RYAN O'NEAL AND WIFE LEIGH TAYLOR-YOUN- Q. Several weeks ago I read that two scientists at the M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, Tex., had isolated a human cancer virus. They were Drs Elizabeth Priori and Leon Dmochowski. Has such a human cancer virus been isolated? R P., Croton-on-Hud-so- N.Y. A. Chances are that the cancer virus isolated was not a human virus but one from a mouse. The evidence as yet is inconclusive. If in fact the virus is a human one, it marks a scientific breakthrough. If not, it is a disappointment. NOW IN BOOK FORM Walter Sc 'ft's Personality Parade is now available for the first time in book form. It contains more than 350 of the outstanding questions and answers of the past ten years. The price is $1. Send cash, check or money order to PARADE, P.O. Box 8, Kensington Sta., Brooklyn, N.Y. 11218. Print name, address, zip code. Please allow three weeks for delivery. chairman of the board. ARTHUR H. MOTLEY president, DANIEL D. KINLEY editor, JESS GORKIN publisher WARREN art director, ANTHONY LA ROTONDA editor at large, LLOYD SHEARER associate editors: LINDA GUTSTEIN, HERBERT KUPFERBERG, DAVID PALEY, JOHN G. ROGERS assistant art directors: JOHN N. TIERNEY, MANFRED F. MILKUHN art associate, AL TROIANI assistant to the editor, MARION LONG editorial assistant, MARY HODOROWSKI home economics, DEMETRIA TAYLOR fashion, VIRGINIA POPE cartoon editor, LAWRENCE LARIAR wash.ngton: bureau chief, JACK ANDERSON; FRED BIUMENTHAL, OPAL GINN west coast bureau: CAROL DUNLAP, CONNECTICUT WALKER 1971, Parade Publications, Inc , 733 Third Ave.. New York, N Y 10017 All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. Reproduction in whole or in part of any article without permission is prohibited PARADES'; Marca Reg I REYNOLDS |
