Tough Challenge: The tallest man in pro...

Tough Challenge: The tallest man in pro basketball, 7-foot-6 Manute Bol of the Philadelphia 76ers, has a tall order in front of him. “I want America to know about what’s happening” in his impoverished homeland of Sudan, said Bol, who will attend a fund-raising banquet tonight in Washington, D.C. Thousands of Sudanese are starving because of harsh weather and civil war. Said Frank Catapano, Bol’s agent: “It’s a sad story . . . . Who do you say no to? Which starving person?”

Home Grown: The Quayle children are getting new bedrooms. Friends of Vice President Dan Quayle and his wife, Marilyn, raised $340,000 in tax-deductible funds from nearly 200 people to add four bedrooms, a sitting room and an office to the Quayle’s residence in Washington, D.C.

Heir Out: George Wallace Jr., recently re-elected Alabama’s state treasurer and heir to the state’s most prominent political dynasty, said he’ll retire from politics at the end of his upcoming term because it kept him from his family and a writing career. Wallace, 39, said Monday in Montgomery, Ala., the governor’s office is not in his future. His father, four-term Gov. George C. Wallace, gained worldwide fame in 1963 for “standing in the schoolhouse door” in an attempt to keep Alabama schools segregated. His mother, the late Lurleen Wallace, also was governor.

Panther’s Lair: Former Black Panther Party leader Eldridge Cleaver will donate photographs, papers and pamphlets documenting the group’s activities to UC Berkeley. “This is the most comprehensive collection in private hands” on the Black Panthers, said Cleaver, one of the founders of the now-defunct Oakland-based group.