One More Bush for White House

President Bush and his wife, Barbara, will be brushing up on lullabies after becoming grandparents for the 11th time. Their daughter-in-law, Sharon, gave birth to a 7-pound, 2-ounce baby girl in Denver, the White House said. Ashley Walker Bush was delivered at 3:45 a.m. at Denver’s Rose Medical Center. A White House statement said that the mother and child were resting comfortably. The new father is Neil Bush, the third oldest of the Bushes’ five children. Ashley is her parents’ third child. The statement quoted the First Lady as saying she and her husband are “very excited” by and “enormously grateful” for the birth of their granddaughter.

--”Wop bop a loo bop a wop bam boom” are not the typical lyrics for official state music. But Rep. Billy Randall, a Georgia state legislator from Macon, wants “Tutti Frutti,” which contains those lyrics, to be the state’s official rock ‘n’ roll song. The Democrat said he introduced the measure to give some overdue recognition to “Little Richard” Penniman, a Macon native whose style was copied by many of the rock stars of the early 1960s, including the Beatles. “Quite frankly, I don’t think Little Richard has ever gotten the acclaim or the notoriety for his contribution to rock ‘n’ roll,” Randall said. “Tutti Frutti,” Little Richard’s first big hit, reached No. 2 on the rhythm and blues chart in 1955 and became a rock standard. Georgia’s state song is “Georgia On My Mind” by Ray Charles.

--Veterans of the Ronald Reagan Administration are not the only political insiders who get book contracts. Bert Lance, the President Jimmy Carter aide who was pushed out of Washington by charges of financial irregularities, has signed with Summit books to write about his experiences. The book, which is due for publication in the fall of 1990, will touch on his work on behalf of Carter and, more recently, the Rev. Jesse Jackson, politics in general and his successful fight against charges of bank fraud.

--Country music singer Loretta Lynn has been hospitalized in Nashville, Tenn., after a fall, a spokeswoman says. Lynn was hurt when she slipped and fell while vacationing recently in the Bahamas with her husband, O.V. (Mooney) Lynn, said Lorene Allen, vice president of Loretta Lynn Enterprises. “She is in Park View Hospital for observation because she . . . broke her arm and suffered unbelievable pain, and that is all I know at this point,” Allen said.