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Show 733 3rd Ave., New Want the facts? Want to learn the truth about prominent personalities? Want informed opinion? Write Walter Scott, Parade, of mail received makes personal replies impossible. York, N.Y. 10017. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume Q. Was Greta Garbo ever a secret love partner of the late Aristotle Onassis ? Myra Mackenzie, Falstaff, Ariz. A. They used to dine occasionally in 1956. " the Q. After " Valentino isnt Rudolf Nureyev, ? N. fish films in W.L., dead a ballet dancer, great Miami, Fla. A. Faidy dead. ttaaoMec JACKIE ONASSIS AND PETE HAMILL with Q. Pete Hamill, the reporter who used to go Q. What sort of job does Bob Haldeman have at the federal correctional institution at Lompoc, Cal.? I've been told he plays tennis every day at the Lompoc Country Club. Is that true?D. ., Seattle, Wash. A. Bob Haldeman, 50, former chief of staff to former President Richard Nixon, works seven days a week as a laboratory technician in the prison's sewage-disposplant. He works on the 2:30 to 9:30 p.m. tennis court behind the is a broken-dow- n There shift. Haldeman sleeps in a section with prison dormitory. 32 other inmates. Occasionally he will play a mornat ing. set of tennis, but the correctional institution is no country minimum a facility, security Lompoc, club. al I read somewhere that rock star Elton John has had all the telephones taken out of his house in England because he is moving to the U S. Why did he do that? Rita Dunlap, Eureka, Cal. A. Elton John has had a Telex installed in his home so as to avoid phone calls. He is not moving permanently to the U.S. but has signed to star in a special network next year. on the ABC-TV THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE whats a heaven for"?L. A. It's from the poem "Andrea Del Sarto," by ert Browning. , NUUEYtV WITH CHRISTINE JF CAttSON J y' IN "VALENTINO" Q. Cole Porter, songwriter extraordinaire, graduate of Yale, Class of 1913 is it true that he was the most notorious homosexual in the history of modern show business? V. 7., New Haven, Conn. A. Cole Porter lyricist and composer, born 1891, Peru, Ind. was a major contributor to the development of American musical comedy. Some of his many famous songs are "Night and Day," "You're the Top," "Begin the Beguine," "My Heart Belongs to Daddy," "In the Still of the Night." Porter was an imaginative, wealthy, "gay," but he was not notorious. For 35 years he was married to Linda Porter, eight years his senior and wealthy in her own right. They lived in Paris after World War I, socialized with Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Noel Coward, Elsa Maxwell, and Gerald and Sara Murphy, who used to say, "Living well is the best well-educat- revenge." In 1937, Porter suffered a riding accident, underwent 32 operations, finally in 1958 had his right leg amputated. Porter was a vain man with dyed hair, false teeth, and great courage. He had a delightful sense of humor, once ordered swimming trunks for his male guests which dissolved when immersed in water. A recent biography, "Cole Porter" by Charles Schwartz, tells about many escapades of the composer and his flamboyant crowd, but Porter's music, the wit and sophistication of his lyrics will surely outlive revelations of his sex life. Rob- Q. Is Evel Knievel crazy, assaulting a writer with a baseball bat? What made him do it? Don't you think he should be put away for life? P.F., Portland, Me. A. Robert Craig Knievel, 40, says: "I stand by what I did." According to Knievel, Sheldon Saltman, 46, vice president of telecommunications at 20th Centustudios, wrote a book about him which inry-Fox sulted his mother, wife, and children, described him and an as "an alcoholic, a pill addict, an immoral person." Saltman, on whom Knievel used a baseball bat, breaking his victim's arm and wrist, says he had a perfect right to write a book about Knievel's unsuccessful try to jump the Snake River Canyon in 1974 on a motorcycle. "We lived together for more than three months," Saltman explains. Knievel, of course, will be dealt with by the law, which he apparently prefers to take into his own hands. e, ed Q. In 7956 Carroll Baker won an Academy Award nomination for playing the sexy blonde in "Baby Doll." Whats happened to her and her actress-daught- er Blanche? D.L., Los Angeles, Cal. A. Carroll Baker is on tour in England playing Sadie Thompson, the American tart, in the Somerset Maugham classic "Rain." Blanche Her daughter, (Garfein) Baker, recently TV spefilmed a five-pacial, "The Holocaust," in Vienna. She played a ew-is- h victim of Nazi rape and murder. rt CARROLL BAKER IN"RAIN" Q. Is Cher Bono Allman finished in Hollywood cause her husband Greg is a drug addict? N.M., N.Y. 10017. Although Los A. Cher is not finished as an entertainer. She has signed for telecasts in 1978. Her marriage with Allman does not affect her career. Her talent does. waltfr scon 1977 n, off-aga- in assistant publisher, JAMB D. HEAD Y. 10017. All rights reserved under international and Pan American 1977, Parade Publications, tnc., 733 Third Ave , New York, N Marra Re without permission is prohibited PARADF Copyright Conventions. Reproduction in whole or in part of any article Please address editorial contributions to: Articles, Parade, 733 Third Ave., New York, be- Angeles, Cal. editor, JESS GORKIN publisher, WARREN J. REYNOLDS president, JAMB McALLISTER chairman of the board, ARTHUR H. MOTLEY HERBERT KUPFERBERG, DAVID PALEY WAITER ANDERSON, SHEARER LLOYD senior at editors, editor large, art director, ANTHONY LA ROTONDA associate editors, DAVID CURRIER, LINDA GUTSTEIN, PAM PROCTOR, ARTHUR ROTHSTEIN, MARTIN TIMINS art associates, CANDICE CULBERT, AL TROIANI assistant art director, ROBERT L PETERSON editorial assistants, TODD MOORE, DORIS SCHORTMAN assistant to the editor, MARION LONG cartoon editor, LAWRENCE IARIAR fashion editor emeritus, VIRCINIA POPE home economics, DEMETRIA TAYLOR FRED BLUMENTHAL, OPAL CINN, MARGUERITE MICHAEB, MICHAEL SATCHELl JACK ANDERSON; bureau chief, Washington, NOVEMBER 13, 1977 P. Peters, N. Tonawanda, N.Y. anti-Semit- Shirley MacLaine but now goes with Jackie Onassis has he talked Jackie into taking a part in his play "Flesh and Blood"? E. L L, Los Angeles, Cal. A. "Flesh and Blood," a novel by Pete Hamill, has been bought for television. It deals with incest, conwho becomes involved with his cerns an mother, believing his father is dead. Jackie Onassis has much to do with Pete Hamill these days, but she is not acting in the TV play. Q. Q. From what literary work is the following line: "Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or reasonable care will be taken. Parade is not responsible for unsolicited material. |