Read My Diet: President George Bush may...

Read My Diet: President George Bush may be eating his words in Knoxville, Tenn., today when he visits the University of Tennessee, where the Tennessee Vegetarian Society plans to serve up a protest for the nation’s “first hunter.” The group plans to display a billboard mounted on a moving van with the message: “Vegetarianism--For a Kinder, Gentler America!” “I like eating what I go after,” Bush said in the Feb. 5 U. S. News and World Report. But the society considers Bush’s hunting and eating quail or dove to be anything but kind and gentle, says Lige Weill, society spokesman.

Birth Bowl: The Denver Broncos have been swamped in three of the last four Super Bowls but Theresa Collurafici has had better luck, twice delivering Super Bowl babies in New Castle, Del., on days the Broncos lost The Big One. When the New York Giants defeated Denver 39-20 in 1987, Collurafici gave birth to Amanda. On Sunday, when the San Francisco 49ers whomped the Broncos 55-10, she delivered 7-pound, 5-ounce Marissa. In between contractions, she and husband Anthony “watched some of the game” at the hospital, which had a TV in the labor room, she said.

Bearing Up: There’s a bear named for Leona Helmsley in Cambridge, Mass. When Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz brought his 2-day-old daughter, Ella Kaille Dershowitz, home this week, they found a 6-foot stuffed Paddington Bear sent by Dershowitz’s newest client, Helmsley, the hotel queen who is appealing her tax fraud conviction. “We have named the bear Leona,” said Dershowitz, whose wife, Caroline Cohen, gave birth to Ellie on Saturday.

Same Tune, Different City: The first U.S. band to march in the Soviet Union’s annual May Day parade promises to march through Red Square May 1 to the tune of “God Bless America.” Dorothy Hill, who heads the Waltham, Mass., American Legion band, said it took her three years to win permission for the 70-plus band members to attend. Hill said she hoped the trip will promote world peace. “I’m a veteran of World War II. I’ve seen three wars. I don’t want to see any more.”