Princess Not a Bride: Monaco’s free-spirited Princess...

Princess Not a Bride: Monaco’s free-spirited Princess Stephanie would like to set the record straight about her marriage plans. She has none. Stephanie says she has broken off her engagement to real estate agent Jean-Yves Le Fur but denies she is planning to marry German millionaire Roger Klueh, as a West German newspaper reported. “I do not even know who they are talking about,” she told Paris Match magazine.

Opening Night: The first Monday in October, the Supreme Court’s opening date, is a fitting night for Ford’s Theatre in Washington to open its production, “Mountain,” starring Len Cariou in a one-man show about the late liberal justice William O. Douglas. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and retired Justice Lewis Powell Jr. are scheduled to attend. Also expected is Susan Brandeis Cahn, great-granddaughter of the legendary Justice Louis D. Brandeis, whom Douglas succeeded on the bench.

Radar Trap: North Dakota Gov. George Sinner, lambasted for his use of a police-evading radar detector, is donating the “priceless family heirloom” to a state mental health association to be auctioned for charity. Last week, Republican state Sens. Bryce Streibel and L.L. “Pete” Naaden, hired a photographer and exposed the governor’s use of the device in his pickup. “It grieves me greatly to part with this priceless family heirloom,” Sinner said, “but I’m willing to make this sacrifice in the interest of promoting mental tranquillity for Bryce Streibel and Pete Naaden.”

Ante Up: Norwegian multimillionaire Knut Utstein Kloster made front page news this week by paying income tax. The shipowner and investor sent a $130,000 voluntary payment to the Oslo tax office, explaining that “I want to do my part for the common good.” Actually, he would not have had to pay any taxes, Kloster told the Dagbladet newspaper. Complicated rules had left him no income tax obligation for 1989.