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Show 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. I hear that movie mogul Darryl Zanuck is on his last legs, which is why he has finally returned to his wife. I hear, too, that the man in charge of the is an authority on at 20th Century-Fo- x Zanuck's love life and is writing a tell-a- ll book. Is any of this so ? Ellie Kent, Chicago, III. A. Darryl F. Zanuck, 70, in rapidly faltering health, has returned to his wife, Virginia. They were separated for years but never divorced. In the decades of his errant behavior, Zanuck's most enduring and costly affairs were with Bella Darvi, Juliette Greco, Irina Demich and Genevieve Gilles, all actresses. The commissary man you refer to is most probably Nick Janos, now retired. While Janos is well acquainted with Zanucks nocturnal extracurricular activities he is writing no book on that subject. If ever he did, it would boggle the mind and melt the type. Q. con-missa- ry SPIRO AGNEW'S HOUSE IN KENWOOD, MD. Q. I would like to know if there is any law which says the American taxpayer has to pay for the improvement of the President's and Vice President's private homes. How come we've had to shell out more than 2 million bucks to improve the private homes of Richard Nixon and Spiro Agnewt I understand we're paying to improve Spiro Agnew's house in Kenwood, Md., and the Vice President hasn't even moved in. Some racket! F. D., Baltimore, Md. section 2, says that in the A. Public Law of its performance protection duties the Secret Service may ask the other agencies of the government for support. Presumably this includes the General Services Administration which approves the large expenditures to assist the Secret Service. As of this writing more than $2.2 million in public funds have been spent to improve President Nixon's personal homes and more than $125,000 to improve Agnew's, which isnt even occupied. The law obviously needs amendment. The taxpayers are being taken for a ride unless some agency of the government oversees that the improvements are not only necessary but that contracts are let out for good work at fair prices. For example, among the improvements made at the Agnew home are a brick and redwood fence costing $39,000, a driveway and parking area costing $14,000, $850 for a flagstone walk to aYi outdoor patio, and more than $3000 for remodeling a basement bathroom and painting the basement. Late last year Agnew purchased the house for $190,000. Pg THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE AUGUST 2 1 2, 1 973 HARRY KARL Q. How many times has Debbie Reynolds been mar- ried? Is she divorcing Harry Karl? Is she earning $2 million from Irene? Linda Painter, Burbank, Calif. A. Debbie Reynolds, 41, now starring in a Broadway musical, Irene, which should earn her $1.5 million in the next two years, plans to file for divorce from her husband, Harry Karl, the shoe store magnate. Before she married Karl, her first husband was singer Eddie Fisher. That marriage lasted 3V2 years. Q. Can you tell me what's happened to Bernie Corn-feld- 's mother while Cornfeld is in a Swiss jail? Mrs. Henry Kantor, Brooklyn, N.Y. A. Bernie Cornfeld, at this writing, is a model prisoner in Geneva where he is being held on charges of fraud and dishonest management of a mutual fund. His mother, Sophie, 85, visits him once a week. She tells newsmen who ask after her, "We won't starve. For years I've been putting $100 a month aside for such emergencies." Cornfeld, once worth an estimated $150 million, is down to his last $10 million or so. His mother wants him to give it all away and to start again "from the beginning." 90-33- 1, m DEBBIE REYNOLDS WITH HUSBAND Q. A MAN OF AFFAIRS: ZANUCK WITH GENEVIEVE GILLES I note that Chet Huntley, once a respected TV news commentator, does regular TV commercials for American Airlines. Will he have anything to say about American's illegal contributions to the Nixon Presidential campaign of 19721 Len Gilbert, Los Angeles, Q. Calif. A. In some quarters Huntley is considered as having debased the profession of TV journalism. Most probably he will say nothing about the violation of the law by American Airlines. Pat Nixon is loveliest-lookin- g one of the First La- dies we've had in this nation. Why doesn't she ever wear d dresses? Every time I've seen a photograph of her she's wearing gloves or long sleeves. Marie Why? Smith, Detroit, Mich. A. Mrs. Nixon is on the thin side, prefers not to show her bone structure. short-sleeve- chairman ot the board, ARTHUR H. MOTLEY editor, ESS GORKIN president, DANIEL D. KINLEY publisher, WARREN J. 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