Newsmakers : Baby Henry Hogs All the Attention on Indiana Farm

--Baby Henry really was spoiled; still is. His own photo album. Fudge on demand. A special pillow for his head while watching TV. But finally, at 900 pounds, he was beginning to make the floors creak--and house-broken Henry had to go. “They call me the crazy lady on the hill because of that pig,” Phyllis Battoe said of the animal she and her husband, Ron, raised. “But I’m just crazy about him. Of course, to me he’s beautiful.” Since his eviction from the house in Chelsea, Ind., Baby Henry refuses to be treated like a pig, she said, reaching into her pocket for a piece of fudge for him. He won’t, for instance, associate with the other pigs on the Battoes’ farm. “He has his own baby album with pictures. The last picture I took, he was in front of the TV. He has his own piggy pillow where he’d lay his head and watch TV, usually cartoons,” she said. His favorite snack? “He loves tacos,” Battoe said, and they take walks every morning. Baby Henry has a place in her heart. “I just got the Christmas pictures back,” she said. “Two were of my grandson and the rest were of Henry.”

--Two sets of triplets and nearly 30 other babies, all conceived in a test tube, were guests at a party in London. It was given by Ian Craft, director of gynecology at the private Cromwell Hospital in west London, who treated the children’s mothers. He told reporters he held the party to show how much happiness the test-tube babies had brought. Anne Maaye, wife of an Arab businessman living in London, brought her triplets--two boys and a girl--who are 1 year old. The youngest party-goers were another set, all boys, born 11 days ago to an Iranian couple. Craft cut a birthday cake for the Maaye trio--Britain’s first test tube triplets--at what was the largest gathering of test tube babies ever held in Britain. Craft has supervised 58 births from in vitro conceptions.

--Jimmy Stewart, an old friend of President Reagan and his wife, Nancy, drew one of the biggest responses at the inaugural galas when he described Hollywood as once being “a place where concepts like patriotism and family were extolled.” He added: “It was also a place where a man could be playing second banana to a chimpanzee on one day and become President of the United States on another day. I’m glad it didn’t happen in reverse order.” Mr. T, a co-host of the show with Frank Sinatra, Tom Selleck and Pearl Bailey, said, “The last time I was here (in Washington), I played Santa Claus in the White House,” he said. “Where else but in America can a black man from the ghetto play a white man from the North Pole and get away with it?”