Cuomo Finds He’s Out of Date When Son Finds One

When it comes to affairs of the heart, Christopher Cuomo has a mind of his own, his father, New York Gov. Mario M. Cuomo, has learned. Christopher, 16, who is working as an orderly at St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany this summer, touched the heart of at least one teen-age candy striper. She handed Christopher a note that started: “Instructions for you.” It gave her name, her phone number and her address. And what was father’s advice? “No sir. I would not call this woman. I would not ask her for a date. I wouldn’t do anything. . . . He looked at me and said: ‘You shouldn’t. You’re 55 and you’re married.’ He said, ‘I’m going to call her.’ ” Despite father’s well-intentioned admonition, Christopher, the youngest of Cuomo’s five children, did do something. He had his date.

--The Little People have begun arriving in Philadelphia for some big doings. The annual convention of the Little People of America, which runs through next week, accents self-help, and will focus on basketball tournaments and seminars on self-defense and marriage to an average-size spouse. “The people of LPA will be coming to Philadelphia not only to celebrate the bicentennial of the United States Constitution, but also to claim the promise of the Constitution that no person will be denied the equal protection of the law,” Harry J. McDonald, the group’s vice president, said. The LPA, which has 4,000 members, encompasses people 4 feet, 10 inches or less.

--In the interest of filling in what it viewed as a “black hole” in New York radio musical fare, Radio Newyork International broadcast its trendy rock ‘n’ roll tunes from five miles off the New York coastline in a rusty fishing boat. But five days was all that authorities allowed. The Coast Guard temporarily seized the boat, the Federal Communications Commission pulled the plug and station engineer Alan Weiner and disc jockey Ivan Rothstein were arrested. However, a Long Island radio station, WNYG, known for its middle-of-the-road music format, offered the so-called radio pirates a chance to play their music for 16 hours next Wednesday. “I don’t think they did anything terrible. Maybe they did us all a favor,” said WNYG owner Muriel Horenstein.