ROANOKE TIMES

                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: MONDAY, January 18, 1993                   TAG: 9301180002
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 5   EDITION: METRO  
SOURCE: from wire reports
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium


PEOPLE COLUMN

He has homered in the seventh game of a World Series and been elected to baseball's Hall of Fame. But Willie Stargell said that doesn't compare with what happened to him Saturday. Some 400 former teammates, friends and family watched him marry Margaret Weller at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Wilmington, N.C.

"This is something much more personal," Stargell said Friday before rehearsal in the church sanctuary. "I regard it as something very sacred." Stargell, 51, who said he will live in Wilmington, is coordinator for minor league hitting for the Atlanta Braves.

First brother-elect Roger Clinton was chastised for his casual wardrobe by a fashion-conscious audience member at a Florida appearance. "I'd like to know why you didn't dress properly," Betty Yaeger, 50 of Palm Beach, Fla., said during a question-and-answer session.

In response, Clinton, in town Friday to open the Palm Beach Round Table speakers series, stepped from behind the lectern to offer the crowd of about 300 a chance to critique his outfit.

He wore a baggy navy blue jacket, white shirt, brown dress Hush Puppies shoes, a festive Uncle Sam tie and blue jeans. "I'm sorry, ma'am," Clinton said. "If I'd had time I'd have sewed little rainbows on my pockets like you've got on yours, but I thought judging people by their clothes went out in the 1950s or '60s."

Yaeger defended her comments later.

"Everything was wrinkled and his hair was unkempt. He was dirty," she said. "He shouldn't embarrass his brother that way."

Whoopi Goldberg's movie "Sister Act" took two prizes at the 25th NAACP Image Awards, while the TV soap opera, "The Young and the Restless," and the TV drama, "I'll Fly Away," each won three.

The awards were given Saturday to those presenting positive images of blacks. This year's submissions covered material released from the fall of 1991 through the fall of 1992.



by Bhavesh Jinadra by CNB