John F. Kennedy’s New Granddaughter Is Doing Fine

--Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg gave birth to a girl, the first grandchild of former President John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, at 3:30 a.m. Saturday at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in Manhattan. The baby, named Rose Kennedy Schlossberg, weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces at birth, according to hospital spokeswoman Diana Goldin, who said mother and baby are doing fine. The baby has been in a regular nursery since birth, with a hospital guard nearby. The mother, 30, wife of artist and author Edwin Schlossberg, 43, checked into the hospital under an assumed name, according to a hospital worker who asked not to be identified. “Many people check in under assumed names. There’s nothing unusual about that,” Kennedy family spokeswoman Nancy Tuckerman said. Jonathan Weil, a hospital spokesman, denied to news media on Sunday and Monday that Schlossberg had given birth.

Ousted PTL minister Jim Bakker sat expressionless in the audience of his old TV show in Ft. Mill, S.C. It was Bakker’s first return to the PTL show since he was defrocked by the Assemblies of God Church last year in a sex scandal. His wife, Tammy Faye, attended a taping a couple of weeks ago. The show’s hosts did not acknowledge Bakker and cameras panning the audience avoided his area. For most of the program, Bakker sat silently. But Mrs. Bakker spoke out as an on-stage guest said: “Men are basically oriented around truth and principle. And women want comfort.” Tammy Faye Bakker disagreed. “That’s not true. Women want truth too,” she said. “Tammy, shush,” Bakker said, squeezing her knee.

--Actor Tony Curtis returned to his ancestral homeland to launch a foundation to restore two major Hungarian synagogues, Jewish cemeteries and to revitalize Jewish life in the Communist nation. The Emanuel Foundation for Hungarian Culture, which Curtis dedicated to Jewish Holocaust victims in Hungary, will soon begin raising funds for the effort. Some 80,000 Jews live in Hungary. Curtis, 63, was born in New York in a Jewish family that emigrated from Hungary in the 1920s.