Over dinner or coffee or drinks — whatever incarnation the first date happens to take — Mark Woodard will have some ver- sion of the same conversation with the woman across the ta- ble. Woodard has found. In other words, he explains, ” ‘Prove to me why you’re not screwed up if you’re not married. It’s a question that nearly every heterosexual male who has reached age 40 but not the altar has had to answer — and not only to their dates. Supreme Court Justice David Souter, 51 and wifeless, ha reporters scrambling to find any tidbit that would unlock the mystery of his bachelorhood. And the forever-single status of Governor William Donald Schaefer, 69, has long engendered questions, theories and raised eyebrows.
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