* Katharine Graham, chairman of the board...

* Katharine Graham, chairman of the board of the Washington Post Co., has signed an agreement with Alfred A. Knopf Inc. to write her memoirs. Graham, 72, who declined to discuss details of the book, is one of three female chief executive officers of Fortune 500 companies and is considered one of the most influential women in the world. She has drawn Presidents from John F. Kennedy to Ronald Reagan to her home.

* But is it nutty enough? A Texas A & M University professor, who eats peanuts in the shell, apple cores, cactus fruit and an occasional ant, believes most people could live to 100 if they adopted the diet of prehistoric man. “If we just ate the diet they ate and with the advances of modern medicine, proper exercise and the pampered life style we have, there’s no reason we couldn’t make it to 100,” said Vaughn Bryant Jr., head of A & M’s anthropology department. Bryant, on eating peanuts in the shell: “A doctor told me they’re just like a Brillo pad going through your intestines.”

* And that’s the way it is: Former CBS anchorman Walter Cronkite has won the first Allen H. Neuharth Award for Excellence in Journalism from the University of South Dakota. Neuharth, former chairman of Gannett Co. Inc., is a USD graduate and former editor of the university’s newspaper.

* The Los Angeles Salvation Army honored televangelist Billy Graham with the William Booth Award, its highest humanitarian prize, in recognition of his ministry.