Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 3, 1992 TAG: 9201030322
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PEOPLE
Barbara Bush had words of solace for a sheep after watching it get shorn Thursday."Sweetheart," the first lady said consolingly as she patted the newly shorn sheep at the Glenloch sheep station in Australia.
As Matthew O'Neil, the station's property manager, gave the creature a close shave, Bush said to the animal: "I think he ought to talk to you."
Bush, a well-known dog fancier, allowed that she had never seen fleece or witnessed a sheep being shorn.
When the shearing was over, she patted the sheep's soft, lanoline-greasy coat and kept a piece of the fleece.
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa have a new daughter to match their little boy born in the USA.
The birth of the couple's second child was announced Tuesday by the rock star's friend Little Steven Van Zandt on "New Year's Eve Live: Southside Johnny at the Ritz," a television show broadcast from New York on the Fox network.
A woman who answered the telephone Thursday at Springsteen's New York publicist, Shore Fire Media, said there was no immediate official statement of the birth. She declined to give her name.
Scialfa, a former member of Springsteen's E Street Band, gave birth to the couple's son, Evan James, 17 months ago.
When Lora Smart Swink was born 29 years ago, she made news as the first baby of 1963 in Cleveland County, N.C.
Wednesday, history repeated itself with the birth of her son.
At 12:23 a.m., Jeremy Tyler Swink, weighing in at 7 1/2 pounds, became the county's first baby of 1992.
"I think they said that I won the derby," she told The Charlotte Observer in a report published Thursday.