Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: FRIDAY, June 8, 1990 TAG: 9006080618
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"Hopefully it will bring us good luck," she said with a smile as she tossed her pennies into the newly restored fountain outside the Plaza Hotel, which Trump owns and she runs. "It can't get much worse."
The Donald was one of the leading contributors to the privately financed restoration of the Pulitzer Fountain and Grand Army Plaza at the southeast corner of Central Park.
She appeared unannounced at the dedication ceremony to accept a small plaque on her husband's behalf.
Asked how her husband was doing in light of his highly publicized cash-flow problems, Trump replied, "I don't know. You'll have to ask him."
On Wednesday, she released a statement saying that despite their recent marital problems, she planned to "stand beside him through thick or thin and for better or worse."
Harrison Ford is donating the bullwhip he used in his "Indiana Jones" movies to help raise funds for a new archaeology-studies building in London, organizers said Thursday.
"He brought archaeology alive for the general public," said Cathy Giangrande, organizer of the Institute of Archaeology's fund-raising drive.
Ford's bullwhip will be sold with other film and entertainment memorabilia at Christie's auction house in December.
Barbara Bush, on the eve of her 65th birthday, said Thursday that she "couldn't care less" about the milestone.
Bush spent part of Thursday in a salute to 25 Washington children who read hundreds of books to raise money for the March of Dimes. As she left the event at The Washington Post, a reporter asked her feelings on turning 65.
"Ohhhhhh!" she groaned, as if hammered by a verbal blow. But she quickly added with a laugh: "I couldn't care less. No, I have no feelings about it."
Ted Turner has promised to apologize for calling Christianity "a religion for losers" when he speaks at a church luncheon next week, the church pastor says.
"He made the statement. He wants a chance to apologize to the world, but would say other things we might not like," said the Rev. Johnny Hunt of the 3,500-member First Baptist Church of Woodstock, Ga.
Hunt said Turner initiated the June 13 luncheon at the suburban Atlanta church, where a former girlfriend and a fishing buddy are members.
Turner criticized Christians last year and again last month at the national convention of the American Humanist Association when he was named Humanist of the Year.
Hunt speculated that maybe Turner "hasn't met the right ones."
by CNB