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DATE: THURSDAY, April 11, 1991 TAG: 9104110466
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She will succeed Lesley Stahl, who is joining CBS' news magazine show "60 Minutes."
Spencer joined CBS' Washington bureau as a reporter in July 1977 and was named a correspondent in 1978.
Nancy Reagan is encouraging her friends to go out and impugn a critical new biography that alleges she ran the presidency and carried on with Frank Sinatra.
"She said anybody who wants to say anything, she would be grateful," Sheila Tate, a former press secretary to the first lady, said Wednesday.
Reagan also consulted a public relations firm on how to handle the negative publicity about "Nancy Reagan, the Unauthorized Biography," sources said.
Friends and associates of the Reagans have made themselves available for interviews in the past two days to challenge allegations in the gossipy biography by Kitty Kelley.
Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf's itinerary will be closely guarded - as will the general - during his visit as grand marshal of the Kentucky Derby Festival Pegasus Parade.
Schwarzkopf, U.S. commander in the Gulf War, has tentatively agreed to lead the 1991 parade on May 2, festival officials said Tuesday.
Schwarzkopf's attendance depends on conditions in the Middle East, said David W. Higgins, the festival's board chairman, and Daniel A. Mangeot, president of Kentucky Derby Festival Inc.
The general's wife, Brenda - a horse-racing fan - is reported to be enthusiastic about coming to the Derby, said Festival board member Tom O'Hearn. "I think that was instrumental in getting him to come."
Eddie Fisher says $30,000 in cash, jewelry and other items was stolen from his suite at the Dunes Hotel where he is appearing.
Fisher, 62, a top pop singer during the 1950s, and his companion, Betty Lin, reported the theft to Las Vegas Metro Police.
Lin said she awoke Tuesday and discovered the theft, including $1,500 in cash, a $10,000 fur coat and a $10,000 pair of ruby cuff links.
Sydney Biddle Barrows doesn't mind one bit that she'll go down in history as the Mayflower Madam.
"Despite everything that's happened, it's still the best job I ever had," Barrows says with a smile.
Arrested in 1984 for running a high-class Manhattan escort service for over five years, Barrows, 39, is now on the lecture circuit and autographing books about her call-girl service.
The former debutante told a group of Fresno, Calif., businesswomen Tuesday how she operated Chachet, $175-per-hour escort service in New York, and that it essentially was "just another business."
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