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DATE: FRIDAY, March 1, 1991                   TAG: 9103010489
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PEOPLE

Love, whose song "Kokomo" was a hit in 1988, said in a federal lawsuit that he had an agreement with Hiram Walker Inc. to appear at a concert in Daytona Beach, Fla., with his Endless Summer Beach Band.

Love said he canceled the week before the March 17 show when he learned that the company was advertising two concerts, not one, and that he would be appearing with a dance group called the "Kokomo Girls." But he said his band could go on without him.

On the day of the concert, posters appeared showing him between two blondes in bikinis, with the words "Hiram Walker" underneath, the suit said. His name was also on the poster, it said.

"It's a suit that's just being issued because of a perceived unauthorized endorsement in connection with our liqueur. That's all I can say," Hiram Walker spokesman Henry Pomeroy said Thursday from company headquarters in Windsor, Ontario.

Deborah Norville, on leave from her job as co-anchor of NBC's "Today," has given birth to a son.

Karl Nikolai was born at 6:35 p.m. Wednesday in New York City. He weighed 7 pounds, 5 ounces.

NBC said both mother and son are fine, and quoted Norville, who said: "The baby is perfect in every way."

It is the first child for Norville and her husband, Karl Wellner, a New York City businessman.

> Meredith Vieira, the only woman correspondent on "60 Minutes," is leaving the top-rated television news show to have a second child.

Variety reported Wednesday that Vieira was fired because she was pregnant and wanted to keep working part time. Don Hewitt, the show's executive producer, balked, the trade publication said.

Vieira and Hewitt denied she was fired.

"I am, for the short term, going to stay with the show," said Vieira, who plans to finish the season, then depart to have her baby. "I'm not happy about it, but I'm certainly happy with my decision to expand my family."

Hewitt said he needed Vieira to work full time now that Harry Reasoner has left the show.

"Meredith said she couldn't do that," he said. "Now, when Meredith is ready to do that, there is nobody we'd consider more to come back to `60 Minutes.' "