* Out of the Frying Pan ....
* Out of the Frying Pan . . . : British Prime Minister John Major’s recent stop for a cafe breakfast of bacon and eggs got him fried by nutritionists. Campaigners against heart disease said eating less fat could help the PM avoid coronary illness. But biochemist Vincent Marks said it was “perfectly reasonable” for Major to breakfast on the fried pork and that the naysayers are guilty of “food zealotry.”
* Little Hammer: The latest entry in the 12-inch fashion-doll market wears gold lame baggy pants and a short jacket over his bare chest. M.C. Hammer, the real rap star, is due in Mattel’s New York showroom today for a dance party to introduce the M.C. Hammer doll. Tiny fashions round out the line.
* Intervention: Pope John Paul II has sought Missouri Gov. John Ashcroft’s “benevolent intervention” in the case of Glennon Paul Sweet, 35, a Death Row inmate convicted of killing a state trooper. St. Louis Archbishop John May said he did not recall a similar request from Rome in his 11 years as archbishop. No reason for the clemency request was given.
* Royal Visits: Prince Charles and Princess Diana visited a naval base in southwest England one day after a London newspaper accused the royal family of “upper class decadence and insensitivity” toward the Gulf War. Also paying war-related visits on Monday were Princess Anne, the daughter of Queen Elizabeth II, in Germany visiting families of British servicemen in the Persian Gulf, and the Duke of Gloucester, a cousin of the queen, inspecting military installations in south England.
