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Show Walter Scotts Want the facts? Opinion? Truth? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 750 Third Ave., New York, have two important questions about Ronald Reagan: (1) Why won't he release copies of his income tax returns as Carter, Anderson and Kennedy have ? And (2) is it true that Reagan has promised, if elected, to appoint Richard Nixon as U.S. ambassa-dor-at-larg- e and send him on various missions world? J.G., Long Beach, Cal. the throughout A. Reagan does not believe in the practice of elected officials making public their income tax returns. He believes such officials are entitled to the privacy rights every other citizen enjoys. To date, Reagan has made no promise to appoint former President Nixon to any position or to send him on -Aany mission. Nixon, however, did send Reagan on a state mission to Australia, Indonesia and Singapore from Nov. 23 to Dec. 5, 1973. Q. N.Y. 10017. Full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail makes personal replies impossible. have a lesbian relationship with Lorena Hickok, the reporter who was Q. Have Barbra Streisand and her live-i- n hairdresser Ion Peters split? B. T., Ventura, Cal. A. Not yet, but after seven years of togetherness and no marriage, a split is probably inevitable. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt Q. Did I her closest friend for 30 years? M.B., Albany, N. V. A. Only Mrs. Roosevelt and Miss Hickok know, and both are dead Roosevelt since 1962, Hickok since 1968. Their correspondence reveals an intimate relationship, but few reputable historians would care to hazard a conclusion on the basis of available evidence. Q. I understand that tennis pro Jimmy Connors has a a tournament management consul- tant What does a tournament management consul- mother who Jennifer Jones and William Holden in 1955 film "Love Is a Thing" Many-Splendor- TV of "Love Is a William Holden and Jenwith Thing" nifer Jones. I understand the movie is based on a true story. Who are the characters in real life? Ann Higgins, Pittsfield, Mass. A. During the Korean War, 1950-195a young Eurasian doctor named Han Suyin daughter of a Chinese railroad engineer and a Belgian mother fell in love with Ian Morrison, a war correspondent for the London Times. Morrison and two other newsmen were killed when their jeep ran over a mine in Korea: Suyin wrote of her love affair with Morrison d in her best seller "A Thing." Out of deference to Morrison's wife and family, she f ic -tionalized his name to Mark Elliott When 20th Century-Fox purchased her book, the movie studio added the words "Love Is" to the existing title. Q. I keep seeing reruns on Many-Splendor- Many-Splendore- is tant do? David Horton, Sterling, Col. A. Cloria Thompson Connors, president of Tennis Management Inc. of St Louis, Mo., not only manages the tennis affairs of her champion son Jimmy, but as a tournament management consultant she tries to bring players to the hired her. Mrs. Conwhose have organizers tourney nors, a former junior tennis champion in her youth, has been connected with the net game for much of her life and knows most of the top tennis players on basis. a big-nam- first-nam- e e i V '" . aM &y lim Q. Please identify the author of this quotation: "The Longtime lovers Jon Peters and Barbra Streisand Q. Ron Wood, the Rolling Stones' guitarist, and his girlfriend can you tell me where they have been imprisoned for possessing cocaine? I'd like to write them. L.F., Hallandale, Fla. A. Ron Wood and girlfriend Josephine Karslake were deported from St. Maarten, an island in the Caribbean, after serving five days in jail this past February for allegedly possessing cocaine. At this -- writing, they are in England. fame of great men ought always to be estimated by the means they used to acquire it" Lillian Biel, Portland, Ore. A. The author is Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613-80)- , a French writer chiefly famous for his "Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales. pithy maxims of concision and style Q. Does the Mafia still run Las Vegas? C. L Las Vegas, Nev. A. It doesn't run Las Vegas, but reportedly it still maintains vital connections with several gambling casinos accused by the government of skimming operations and other illegalities jib Tennis ace Jimmy Connors hugs his mother Cloria Q. Who is the leading writer in South Africa, Alan Paton or Nadine Cordimer? Godfrey Welder, Lees- burg, Va. A. Alan Paton, 77, author of "Cry, the Beloved Country," would probably concede literary leadership to Nadine Cordimer, 56, who lives in the suburbs of Johannesburg with Reinhold Cassirer, her husband, a refugee from Hitler's Germany who migrated to South Africa in 1936. Cordimer published her first novel, "The Lying Days," in 1953; her latest "Burger's Daughter," in 1979. WAITER president, CARLO VITTORINI AMIS D. 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