Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, August 28, 1993 TAG: 9308280190
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: B9 EDITION: METRO
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A worn and frazzled Judy Sterling bravely told the story Thursday, admitting that she had lost track of her son and wasn't aware he was missing until 24 hours later, when the boy's photo was shown on television news reports. The boy was returned to the family in St. Paul, Minn., late Thursday afternoon and seemed no worse for his experience, his mother said.
"Everybody was running down the stairs and hugging him and kissing him," she said. "He's just happy. He doesn't even act like he missed anybody."
The incident, which comes close to mirroring the fictional chain of events that befall a youngster in the popular "Home Alone" movies, began Tuesday evening when Dillon got out of the family van at a White Bear Lake, Minn., convenience store and was left behind.
A nap in public. A pallor in her complexion. It can mean only one thing to Japan's tabloids - Crown Princess Masako is pregnant.
"Could It Be? Are They Preparing for Pregnancy?" read the title of a recent cover story in Josei Jishin (Ladies' Own), a popular gossip magazine for women.
"She's lost weight, she's looking pale, she never ventured off the grounds of the Nasu villa [during her summer vacation]," the article said. "This is raising hopes that just maybe . . . "
Or maybe not.
Imperial spokesmen insist such speculation is premature. After all, they point out, Masako and Crown Prince Naruhito have been married only since June.
Movie maker Spike Lee is headed up the aisle toward wedded bliss.
Come Oct. 2, Lee will take the plunge with lawyer Tonya Linette Lewis. She's an '88 graduate of Sarah Lawrence College in New York and a '91 grad of the University of Virginia's law school. Lately, she bills her time out of the Washington, D.C., law firm of Hargrave, Devans & Doyle.
Soccer legend Pele has apparently found a higher calling: He says he has the power to heal sick children thanks to "a closer link between Pele and God."
"Parents call me saying their kid has cancer, has only one month to live and wants to see me while still conscious. I go to the hospital and the kid recovers," Pele says in the August issue of Playboy magazine's Brazilian edition. He said such miraculous recoveries have occurred several times in Brazil and other countries, but he never revealed his faith-healing powers before because he feared being misunderstood.
James Carville, 48-year-old rabid Democrat, and Mary Matalin, 39-year-old rabid Republican, have announced that they will be married on Thanksgiving in New Orleans. They will live in Front Royal, Va., where Carville has bought a house, reported the Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate.
Laugh-a-minute conservative P.J. O'Rourke gives readers of the American Spectator 100 reasons Jimmy Carter was a better president than Bill Clinton. Among them:
Carter "hardly ever hugged or kissed anyone in public except Leonid Brezhnev."
Carter "had a smarter baby brother."
Warren Christopher "was young and full of pep during the Carter administration."
Carter "wore real blue jeans and not the Levi's 550 roomy-in-the-buns" kind.
Carter "had once held a job."
by CNB