No Fool: When Vice President Dan Quayle...

No Fool: When Vice President Dan Quayle picked up an anatomically explicit male doll on his recent trip to Latin America, he did not know it would follow him home, so to speak. Reporters put a replica of the doll on the podium in the White House press room Monday as a joke on press secretary Marlin Fitzwater. “I know I’m being set up,” he said. “I’m not going to look there--not for $1 million. . . . “

Long Road: Carmen (Irish) Fasanella, for 68 years a cab driver in Princeton, N.J., has made it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s longest-licensed cabbie. One of Fasanella’s customers was Brooke Shields. “She was a wonderful girl,” he said, “but her mother was a snob.” Fasanella also served as a bodyguard to scientist Albert Einstein. “People used to come after him on his walks to try to get his autograph and scare him out of his shoes.”

Dumped by Trump?: The latest chapter of the Trump Saga has Donald Trump bidding farewell to Marla Maples, the actress for whom he reportedly left his wife. “Donald Dumps Marla,” said the New York Post Thursday, claiming that Trump’s decision left Maples “in tears.” Or did it? The same day, the Daily News reported that a fashion designer continues to work on a drop-dead dress for Marla to wear to the April opening of Trump’s Atlantic City casino.

Two for One: Drummer Mickey Hart says production of his new book won’t take away from the world’s total of trees. Hart, one of the rock band Grateful Dead’s two drummers, said of “Drumming at the Edge of Magic” that he went from “learning about endangered music to caring about our endangered planet.” So his publisher will plant two trees in a South American rain forest for every tree required to produce the book.