Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, July 11, 1990 TAG: 9007110283
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She was taken to Bronovo Hospital on Monday after falling ill in her hotel room, Clifford Booker, a physician and friend traveling with her, told The Associated Press.
The singer, who wears a pacemaker, was not suffering heart problems, according to Booker. He said her illness forced cancellation of her appearance Wednesday in a "Gala for Ella" sponsored by the North Sea Jazz Festival in The Hague and she would return to the United States after being released from the hospital.
Barbara Bush says her worst memory from 18 months of living in the White House may be the time she found herself sharing the mansion's outdoor pool with a rat.
"He did not look like a Walt Disney friend, I'll tell you that," she said in an interview published by newspapers in Houston and San Antonio on Tuesday.
The first lady, in Texas for the economic summit, said the president came to her rescue.
"It went right by in front of me. I mean, it was enormous," said Bush, a mile-a-day swimmer. "Fortunately, George Bush was there and drowned the beast. It was horrible."
The White House grounds attract rats, she said, "because we're surrounded by parks and people drop food."
Esther Rolle became the first woman to receive the NAACP Chairman's Civil Rights Leadership Award. She was honored for her work in helping raise the image of blacks through her stage, television and movie work.
NAACP Chairman William F. Gibson presented the award Monday at the annual convention of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Best known for her role as matriarch Florida Evans on the situation comedy "Good Times" from 1974-79, Rolle most recently played the housekeeper Idella in the Academy Award-winning "Driving Miss Daisy."
Her latest project is a one-woman stage show about the life of black educator Mary McLeod Bethune, who founded the forerunner of Bethune-Cookman College in Daytona Beach, Fla.
by CNB