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Show WALTER SCOTT'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. Is it not a fact that most of the riots in our Federal prisons are started by blacks ? What percentage of r, prisoners in Federal prisons are Negro? Harry Salt Lake City, Utah. A. Most riots in Federal prisons are not begun by blacks. Although blacks account for approximately 12 percent of the total U.S. population, they comprise 27.6 percent of all Federal prisoners. Rade-mache- true that to make up for the poverty of his youth, Nixon has always been attracted to men of Q. NIXON AGNrW Q. Would President Nixon dare appoint Spiro Agnew to the U.S. Supreme Court ? D L., Baltimore, Md. A. Nixon will appoint to the Supreme Court those individuals whose conservative judicial philosophy is most akin to his. Politics, of course, will play a major role in the appointment. Q. If and when Eugene McCarthy divorces Abigail, won't he marry Marya. McLaughlin, CBS commentator? Peter Hayes, Montecito, Calif. A. It's a possibility. Former Senator McCarthy and Miss McLaughlin have been and still are the closest of friends. Is it wealth ? Ed Wales, Syracuse, N.Y. A. T rue of Nixon, true of Johnson, true of Eisenhower. I no-goo- understand that Ted Kennedy is very much interested in certain angles pertaining to Alaska Airlines. Is this so? K.L., McLean, Va. A. Senator Kennedy flies a good deal, meets the pilots and stewardesses of many different airlines, appreciates beauty and competency wherever he finds them. Q. Sen-at- or Q. Does Angela Davis wear an Afro wig? Dianne McAvity, Philadelphia, Pa. A. She does. Q. Now that Q. About the U.S. Supreme Court justices. How much do they earn? Also, how many judges on the Federal bench, and how many of these are women? Louis Miller, Freeport, N.Y. A. The Chief Justice, Warren Burger, earns $62,500 per year, the other Supreme Court Justices $60,000 annually. There are approximately 500 Federal judges, four of whom are women: Shirley Hufstedler, 46, of Los Angeles ar.d the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals; and U.S. District Judges Cornelia Kennedy, 48, of Detroit, Constance Motley, 50, of New York City, and Sarah Hughes, 75, of Dallas. THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE OCTOBER 31, 1971 2 uh I other day heard one black man call another d black man "a Oreo' Can you tell me what that expression signifies? Mrs. Helen Lawrence Kent, Greenwich, Conn. A. It is a synonym for an Uncle Tom, named after the cookie, Oreo, which is black on the outside, white on the inside. Q. The Look mag- azine has expired, is it true that Time, Inc. is bringing out two new magazines called "Well " and "Money"? Laura Williston, Buffalo, N.Y. A. Time, Inc. is polling 500,000 of its book and record customers, asking if they would pay $9 per year to become charter members of these two projected monthlies. If Time, Inc. receives enough "yes" replies, it will publish "Well" which deals with preventive health care, and "Money" which deals with management of household finance and personal a , -f' 'fv... BIRTHDAY IS NOV. 14, BUT MAMIE CELEBRATED EARLY. Q. How old Erie, Pa. A. Seventy-fiv- e is Mamie Eisenhower? Edith Gilhorn, on November 14. f tat i juiaiia fjiau to enter politics now that he has given up show business? E.L., Palm Springs, Calif. A. Sinatra, 55, had little formal schooling, about six months of a high school education in Hoboken, N.J. Now that he has retired from show business, he seeks to compensate for his lack of formal schooling. Most recently he has embarked on a crash program dealing with political science. Since Ronald Reagan and George Murphy made it to the top in California politics, there is no reason why Sinatra might not also enter the field. Because of television, politics has become more receptive to actors. NOW IN BOOK FORM Walter Scott'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. editor, JESS GORKIN chairman of the board, ARTHUR H. MOTLEY publisher. p.esident, DANIEL D. KINLEY art director, ANTHONY LA ROTONDA editor at large, LLOYD SHEARER associate editors: LINDA CUTSTEIN, HERBERT KUPFERBERG, DAVID PALEY, JOHN G. ROGERS art associate, AL TROIANI assistant art directors: JOHN N. TIERNEY, MANFRED F. MILKUHN editorial assistant, MARY HODOROWSKI assistant to the editor, MARiON LONG cartoon editor, LAWRENCE LARIAR home economics, DEMETRIA TAYLOR fashion, VIRGINIA POPE ssashington: bureau chief, JACK ANDERSON; FRED BLUMENTHAL, OPAL GINN west coast bureau: CAROL DUNLAP, CONNECTICUT WALKER WARREN 1971, Parade Publications, Inc., 731 Third Ave., New York, N.Y., 10017. All rights reserved under International and Pan American Copyright Conventions. Reproduction in wnole or in part of any article without permission is prohibited. PARADE, Marca Reg J. REYNOLDS |