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

DATE: SATURDAY, August 7, 1993                   TAG: 9308070152
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: B9   EDITION: METRO 
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PEOPLE COLUMN

Elevator going down, Sen. Jesse Helms? Sen. Carol Moseley-Braun, D-Ill., told a National Urban League dinner in Washington on Wednesday about her elevator encounter Tuesday with the North Carolina Republican.

"He saw me standing there, and he started to sing, `I wish I was in the land of cotton . . . ' and he looked at Senator [Orrin] Hatch and said, `I'm going to make her cry. I'm going to sing `Dixie' until she cries.' And I looked at him and said, `Senator Helms, your singing would make me cry if you sang `Rock of Ages." ' "

\ Chess legend Bobby Fischer's next opponent could be a 17-year-old Hungarian girl who's more of a prodigy than he was. Fischer, who made headlines last year with his rematch against Boris Spassky, was in Budapest, Hungary, for a match against the world's top female player. State TV said the former world champion arrived amid talk of a possible match against 17-year-old chess whiz Judit Polgar.

Laszlo Polgar, Judit's father and manager, was quoted by the Budapest sports daily as saying conditions for a match had been agreed to.

Judit beat Fischer's record by one month as the youngest player ever to qualify for the international grandmaster classification, doing so at the age of 15 years and five months.

by CNB