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Show WEE! 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. Fortune magazine ranks Daniel Ludwig, the shipping magnate, and John MacArlhur as the only two surviving American billionaires. How old is John MacArthur ? What business is he in? And is he any relation to actress Helen Hayes? Victor Lantz, Los Angeles. A. John MacArthur, 80, insurance tycoon, is the brother of the late Charles MacArthur, the playwright who was married to actress Helen Hayes. Q. Poor, poor worth. Is Rita Hay- she alcoholic or mentally deranged or Q. They say in this town that the two big clout boys in the Carter Administration are Hamilton Iordan and lody Powell. Is that so? Mae Belle Hancock, Charleston, S.C. A. It probably is. Hamilton Jordan and Jody Powell have worked for Carter longer than other members of his staff. He regards them as friends, loyalists, supporters and, in a way, as younger brothers. Jordan is an assistant to the President in matters of politics he is the closest thing to a chief of staff while Powell is a press secretary more powerful than press secretaries in the four previous Administrations. both? How many times was she married, and to whom? Is her illness caused by excess marHenrietta Yates, riage? Newport, Ca. A. Rita Hayworth at 58 is mentally disturbed, can no longer look after her own affairs. She has been married five times to Ed Jud-soOrson Welles, Aly Khan, Dick Haymes and James Hill. She has two Rebecca, 32, daughters by Welles, and Yasmin, 27, by the late Aly Khan. AND HENRY KISSINGER IN 1973 Q. Before Kissinger dated actress Liv Ullmann, is it a fact that he had the Secret Service search under her bed for hidden tape recorders ? Mary L., Pittsburgh. A. Kissinger took Ullman out one time. The Secret Service, prior to the date, checked her hotel in Beverly Hills. All these stories about Kissinger having been such a Don Juan in Hollywood are nonsense. He made it with a starlet or two, then settled down to a happy second marriage with the former Nancy Maginnes. paisds THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE APRIL 17, 1977 Arbuckle case here? D.T., Los Angeles. A. Polanski is not too popular. This case may blow the lid on the incidence of drug use among show business characters. Q. I am a veteran of nearly 40 years in newspapers and television and once sat at a table in Washington, D C., with the late Drew Pearson. We agreed we were both negative thinkers. During the conversation I said if the taxpaying public of the United States ever really found out how dishonest politicians of both parties were, the United States would see a civil war almost without end. What is your opinion? M.T., Princeton, NJ. A. Hopefully, President Carter will restore public faith in the nation's politicians. If anyone can, he is the one. Q. Where is Roberto Rossellini, who once was married to Ingrid Bergman and fathered three of her four children? Lorraine Apter, Deal, NJ. A. Rossellini is in his 70's, lives qutside Rome, will head the jury for the 1977 Cannes Film Festival. n, rita HAYWORTH IN "GILDA," 1946 Q. The story LIV ULIMANN Q. Roman Polanski, the Hollywood director alleged to have doped, raped and sodomized a girl is he popular in Hollywood? Will the film colony come to his defense, or do we have another Fatty is prevalent that President Valery Ciscard d'Estaing of France is now under the care of a psychiatrist who seeks to diminish the French President's interest in female beauty. Any comment? T.L., Fire Island, N Y. A. Ciscard may be seeing a psychiatrist psychiatry is currently in great vogue in Paris but not for the reason you suggest. A few years ago the newspaper Le Monde asked, "Where does Giscard spend his nights?" implying the answer was not at home. But the question merely served to increase Giscard's popularity. Q. Ola Welch lobe, Richard Nixon's sweetheart from school days why doesn't she publish the love letters Nixon wrote her when he was a law student at Duke University? Surely they would reveal the most interesting aspects of his character. G.E., Sedona, Ariz. A. The letters belong to Mrs. Jobe, but Nixon retains the author's right to publish them. Mrs. Jobe must paraphrase them if and when she seeks to publish. Q. How many times has "A Star Is Born" been made? Claire Thibault, Chicago. A. It was first made in 1931 under the title "What Price Hollywood?" It was directed by George Cukor. It was by William Wellman in 1937 with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March. A third version appeared in 1954, again directed by Cukor, with Judy Garland and James Mason. The fourth version, with Barbra Streisand and Kris Kristofferson, is currently in release. OLA WELCH JOBE TODAY chairman of the board, ARTHUR H. MOTLEY president, JAMES McALLISTER editor, JESS GORKIN publisher, WARREN HEAD r editor at large, LLOYD SHEARER D. JAMES sen. HERBERT KUPFERBERG, DAVID PALEY editor, editors, managing art director, ANTHONY LA ROTONDA associate editors, DAVID CURRIER, LINDA GUTSTEIN, PAM PROCTOR, ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN, MARTIN TIMINS, L H. WHITTEMORt assistant art director, ROBERT L. PETERSON art associates, CANDICE CUL8ERT, Al TROIANI assistant to the editor, MARION LONG editorial assistants, DORIS SCHORTMAN, TODD MOORE home economics, DEMETRIA TAYLOR cartoon editor, LAWRENCE LARIAR fashion, VIRGINIA POPE Washington, bureau chief, JACK ANDERSON; FRED BLUMENTHAL, OPAL GINN, rroY SHEARER west coast bureau. CHARLES PETERSON australia, PATRICIA ANGLY europe, CONNECTICUT WALKER O J. WALTER SCOTT 1977 REYNOLDS 1977, Parade Publications. 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