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

DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 19, 1994                   TAG: 9401190109
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PEOPLE

Charles said he is giving up league polo to protect his back, although he will continue to appear in a few charity matches.

"Much as he has enjoyed playing polo over many seasons, his back is now telling him that it is time to stop," said a statement Tuesday from St. James's Palace.

The 45-year-old heir to the throne has suffered back strain on several occasions from playing polo. In 1990, he took a spill during a match and broke his right arm.

His announcement came a day after Buckingham Palace announced that his mother, Queen Elizabeth II, had suffered a broken left hand when her horse fell Saturday.

Miss America, Kimberly Aiken, was "really scared" but basically unhurt after finding herself in the middle of the Los Angeles earthquake.

"Being from South Carolina, I've never even heard or seen anything like this," Aiken told her hometown TV station WIS-TV in Columbia, S.C. "It was shaking violently, really badly."

Aiken said she cut her foot on broken glass as she and other guests were evacuated from a hotel, which had lost power. Aiken was in Los Angeles to help the city mark Martin Luther King Day. Her scheduled appearances were canceled.

It was Danny vs. Donny, a three-round charity boxing match to determine which former child star had grown into the more macho adult.

The winner: Danny Bonaduce, who bloodied Donny Osmond's nose and earned a 2-1 decision Monday.

The challenge began at the gym where both men were working out. There were no knockdowns in the fight at a Chicago nightclub, but both men landed some good blows, according to one witness.

Eighty percent of the proceeds will go to The Tom and Roseanne Arnold Foundation, Bonaduce's chosen charity. The remaining 20 percent will go to The Children's Miracle Network, chosen by Osmond.

The amount raised wasn't available.

Yes, Steven Spielberg's "Jurassic Park" was 1993's biggest grossing movie, but it wasn't No. 1 in the percentage of return on its cost.

That distinction goes to Ang Lee's "The Wedding Banquet," which earned 23.6 times its $1 million cost. "Jurassic Park" returned 13.8 times its $63 million cost. The worst return was racked up by Peter Bogdanovich's "The Thing Called Love" starring River Phoenix, which cost $14 million to make and returned a mere million.