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Show S ', 3rd Ave., New Want the facts? Want to learn the truth about prominent personalities? Want informed opinion? Write Walter Scott, Parade, 733 York, N.Y. 10017. Your full name will be used unless otherwise requested. Volume of mail received makes personal replies impossible. Q. It has come fo me that Liz Taylor and Richard a boozer and Burton are divorcing because Burton is philanderer. I would like your opinion ? Mrs.H.F. N C. leftress, Winston-SaleA. In show business circles many wives do not regard drinking and infidelity as reasons for divorce. However, Miss Taylor's tolerance quotient is not as high as it used to be, which is why the marriage is on the rocks. After all, she is 41. She has been married five times. Her career is headed downward. When she married Burton nine years ago she was an experienced, perceptive young woman who well knew what sort of wild Welshman she was attempting to domesticate. These are frustrating times for Burton. At 47 he is losing his hair. He plays in trashy films for money. He no longer reallv likes to act. He has talent for writing but seems to lack the necessary discipline. He talks of retiring and teaching at Oxford, but he is not by nature an academic. He is for the time being, lost and therefore difficult to live with. a Lady Bird Johnson and her daughter Lynda Bird were in England last month, where did they stay? H.L.F., Dallas, Tex. Q. When Q. Who was "the prominent lawyer " who advised President Nixon to fire Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, and can you tell me anything about Brenda Murphy, him ? Cleveland, Ohio. A. H. Chapman Rose, 66 (right), senior partner in Reavis, and the Washington, D.C., affiliate, Reavis, Pogue, Neal & Rose, met with President Nixon over the Easter weekend and reportedly advised him that Haldeman and Ehrlichman had to go. Chappie'' Rose has been closely affiliated with national Republican politics since the Eisenhower days when he served as Under Secretary of the Treasury under his old friend and business associate, the late George Humphrey, onetime chairman of Hanna Mining. In 1969 Nixon placed Rose's son Jonathan in the White House as an aide to Peter Flanigan. Young Rose was then a second lieutenant in the Army. He is still in the White House. Is it true that jack Anderson's assistant, Brit Hume, has turned on Anderson and is writing a book on his former employer ? Leona Fox, Seattle, Wash. A. Hume is writing a book, currently entitled The Adventures of lack Anderson as Seen Through the Eyes of an Innocent Bystander. Hume and Anderson are still good friends. A. They stayed with Fleur Cowles Meyer who used to be married to Mike Cowles who used to publish the now defunct Look magazine. Has Barbara Hutton had a nervous breakdown since her only child, Lance Reventlow, was killed in a plane accident? I hear she has become a recluse in Tangiers. True? Ann Pierce, Los Angeles, Calif. A. Barbara Hutton has suffered no nervous breakdown. She is not holed up in Tangiers. In fact, she is offering her Tangiers residence for sale at $2 million but will accept less. She is residing in Paris. Q. Q. BARBARA HUTTON WEARING JEWELS OF RUSSIA'S EMPRESS CATHERINE THE GREAT tell-it-a- ll Q. What were the Secret Service code names used for Haldeman and Ehrlichman ? F. Thomas, BaltiLAST MONTH, AFTER A RIFT, THE BURTONS WERE REUNITED AT THE ROME AIRPORT, BUT THE RECONCILIATION DIDN'T TAKE. WHO KNOWS WHAT'S IN THE CARDS FOR THIS MERCURIAL COUPLE? more, Md. A. Haldeman's code name was "Welcome." code name was Wisdom." Ehrlich-man'- s true that Frank Sinatra and his band of bodyabout to be sued for beating up Frank are guards Weinstock in Palm Springs for no good reason at all ? Wemstock comes from here, and we'd like to know. D.R., Salt Lake City, Utah. A. There is every likelihood that a million-dolla- r suit will be filed against Sinatra and his bodyguards for the beating they allegedly inflicted upon Frank Weinstock, an insurance agent, in the men's room of the Trinidad Hotel in Palm Springs on May 5, 1973. Sinatra, Jilly Rizzo, and Jerry "The Crusher" Avintas have already been named in a misdemeanor and battery complaint filed against them by Weinstock. According to Weinstock, Sinatra accused him of trying to steal the singer's girlfriend, Barbara Marx. Q. psiEiEs THE SUNDAY NEWSPAPER MAGAZINE AUGUST 26,1973 Is it In a recent issue of The New Republic, John Osborne wrote: "The consensus of the reporters who regularly cover the White House is that Ron Ziegler is a proven deceiver and liar and that Mr. Nixon will have no credibility so long as Ziegler continues to be his chief spokesman." Is that statement true? Does Mr. Osborne cover the White House? Is he by the press corps? Walter Johnson, WashD.C. ington, A. Many people including two of President Nixon's most trusted friends, John Connally and Melvin Laird, recognize that harsh statement as truthful. Both of these advisers suggested to the President that he replace Mr. Ziegler. No doubt this will occur before the year is out and Ziegler will be replaced as press secretary by Gerald Warren, who is doing most of the press briefing nowadays. Most probably Fred Malek, second in command at the Office of Management and Budget, will find a comfortable spot for Mr. Ziegler in the federal bureaucracy, or Ziegler will remain as a Presidential confidant. As for Mr. Osauborne's qualifications, he is a widely-respecte- d thor and journalist of note, a Southern gentleman from Corinth, Miss., who worked for Time-Lif- e from 1938 to 1961, and is currently recognized as a journalist of perception, sagaciousness and unblemished reputation. Q. chairman of the board, ARTHUR H. MOTLEY editor, IESS GORKIN president, DANIEL D. KINLEY publisher, WARREN J. 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