Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, May 2, 1990                   TAG: 9005020226
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PEOPLE

"I'm clearly not a major legal genius," he told reporters Monday.

So Tuesday's city tabloids had headlines screaming about him going belly up on the bar exam. Undaunted, Kennedy said he would take the test again and again "until I'm 95" - or until he passes.

The 29-year-old son of the late President Kennedy has only one more chance to pass the grueling 12 1/2-hour, two-day test if he wants to keep his job as an assistant district attorney in Manhattan.

Hank Williams Jr. has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down "feel-good jurisprudence" that gave his half-sister a claim to the estate of their famous father.

Williams' lawyers contended in the filing last month that the state Supreme Court in Alabama gave a share of the late country music star Hank Williams Sr.'s estate to his illegitimate daughter, Jett Williams, even though the estate had been closed since 1975.

Williams also asked the court to hear an appeal of a New York appeals court that, relying on the Alabama case, gave Williams a share of continuing music royalties stemming from songs written by her father.

Shirley MacLaine has suspended her one-woman musical revue "Out There Tonight" until June because of a knee injury.

MacLaine, 56, will undergo arthroscopic surgery this week on her right knee to remove floating pieces of torn cartilage, publicist Dale C. Olson said.

The entertainer fell on stage in Seattle during a March 2 performance of the show. She continued the tour for three weeks in San Francisco before the injury flared up Sunday during rehearsals in Los Angeles, Olson said.