THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, January 31, 1997              TAG: 9701310065
SECTION: DAILY BREAK             PAGE: E11  EDITION: FINAL 
SOURCE: BY JURA KONCIUS, THE WASHINGTON POST 
                                            LENGTH:   18 lines

WALTERS BUYS WORK OF BEACH CARVER

BARBARA WALTERS found time the week before her swirl of Inaugural engagements as the date of Sen. John Warner, R-Va., to do a little shopping. She popped into antiques shop Marston Luce in Washington, D.C., looking for a thank-you gift for a couple who had entertained her and left carrying a shopping bag tied with black ribbon.

An employee at the shop said the ABC ``20/20'' anchorwoman purchased a carved wooden dove perched on a turned spindle. The $65 doves are painted in a weathered white finish and are made by a decoy carver in Virginia Beach.