Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, November 13, 1993                   TAG: 9311130097
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PEOPLE

The 73-year-old pontiff will need six weeks to fully recover and months before swimming and skiing again. He will resume most activities, but canceled audiences Friday and today as well as a visit to a Rome parish on Sunday.

He has to eat with his left hand but can sign documents with his right.

The pope's orthopedist, Dr. Gianfranco Fineschi, said his arm must remain bandaged and immobile for four weeks, followed by two weeks of physical therapy.

Vatican spokesman Joaquin Navarro said John Paul was feeling well, was out of pain and slept peacefully at the hospital Thursday night.

He will make his first public appearance from his window overlooking St. Peter's Square on Sunday for his usual blessing.

"Unlike the president, I inhaled. And then I threw up," New Jersey governor-elect Christine Todd Whitman said in Newsweek on the difference between her marijuana-smoking experience and President Clinton's.

A department store chain has cut off Howard Stern's "Private Parts."

Caldor deleted the radio shock jock's No. 1-ranked autobiography from The New York Times best-seller list posted in its stores. The department store chain relented after the newspaper complained, but it still won't stock the book.

"We think it's a controversial book, and we don't care to sell books like that," said Gary Vasques, spokesman for the Norwalk, Conn.-based discount chain, which has about 150 stores on the East Coast.

The book has been at the top of the list for three weeks. Caldor's reprinted version of the list had the No. 2 book, Jerry Seinfeld's "Seinlanguage," on top, and all the other best sellers were moved up a notch.

"We're very unhappy that Caldor's has displayed an altered version," said Times spokeswoman Nancy Nielsen. "They've assured us that they're taking immediate action to correct the situation."

Columnist Liz Smith recalls Walter Cronkite's mother, Helen Cronkite, who died recently in Washington at age 101. Through her '90s, Helen Cronkite dated like a schoolgirl and danced her way to happiness, Smith says. Once her son called to ask how she was:

"Oh, I had the best time dancing last night. But I had to keep slapping my date," she said.

He was dumbstruck. "Was he getting fresh?"

"Oh, no," Helen Cronkite said, "he's old. He kept passing out; I had to keep reviving him."