‘I Do’ Has a Familiar Ring, So Does Valentine Bride

--Cupid’s arrow has hit Mary and Desmond Weindorf yet again, and the couple plan to end their latest divorce on Valentine’s Day and marry each other for the third time. “Maybe we’ll get it right this time,” said Des Weindorf, 85. After the wedding today, he will move into his new bride’s room at the Countryside Health Care Center in Lincoln, Ill., a nursing home where they have had separate rooms. Mary Weindorf, 84, says she plans to “nag” her husband as much as necessary. “I wouldn’t feel married if I weren’t nagged,” says Weindorf, who in his working days was a state police motorcycle trooper, county and state engineer and local political activist. The couple were first married on Valentine’s Day in 1924 and since then have been married a total of 37 years and divorced 24, said Sue Neavill, 40, their youngest of four living children. “The reason I finally decided to go along with (the third wedding) was because I realized they never loved anybody else,” said Neavill. Mary Weindorf said she “didn’t care a thing about Des” when she entered the nursing home, but, giggling, added: “He started bringing me a banana every morning.” One thing led to another and, last month, Des Weindorf popped the question. “I don’t know what I said but it was beautiful,” he said. “I didn’t get down on my knees though. I wouldn’t have been able to get up.”

--Richard Adler, composer of such Broadway hits as “Damn Yankees” and “The Pajama Game,” says he has almost finished a suite for the Statue of Liberty’s centennial. The piece--”The Lady Remembers”--”will express through music the universal concept of freedom that the statue symbolizes,” said the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation. The seven-movement suite will be premiered March 9 in Salt Lake City by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

--When staff members, parents and patients at Children’s Hospital in Washington saw a phalanx of security guards gather and heard “Prince” was about to pay a visit, their delirious welcome was worthy of the flamboyant rock superstar himself. But the celebrity who arrived amid the perplexed gazes of the star-struck crowd--many of whom had stampeded at the possibility of glimpsing His Royal Badness--was instead His Royal Highness Prince Abdul Aziz, 11-year-old son of Saudi Arabian King Fahd. The young nobleman, who is accompanying his father during a visit to the nation’s capital, had stopped by to present the hospital with a $100,000 check for new equipment.