Galloping Gourmets: The Pizza Hut in Moscow...

Galloping Gourmets: The Pizza Hut in Moscow delivered its specialties to the Russian Parliament building during the coup in the Soviet Union, so Russian president Boris Yeltsin recently delivered his thanks. Roger Rydell, chief spokesman at Pizza Hut headquarters in Wichita, Kan., said Yeltsin backers received 260 pizzas, 20 cases of Pepsi and gallons of hot coffee during the crisis, and Rydell quoted Yeltsin as calling to say “thanks for the support.”

* Family Feud: Princess Diana’s cash-strapped father is selling heirlooms from the family’s ancestral home against his children’s wishes, British tabs said Tuesday. Earl Spencer is quoted as telling the Daily Mail that his four children were “ungrateful” and did not understand the financial burden of keeping up the family manse, which has several thousand acres of farmland and an extensive art collection. Buckingham Palace officials were not available for comment on the views of Diana, 30-year-old wife of Prince Charles.

* Name That Tune: New York City transit officials plan to survey riders about their music tastes. It’s part of a plan to set the subway stations to music. The possibilities seem endless: Duke Ellington’s “Take the A Train,” Bruce Springsteen’s “Tunnel of Love,” or maybe Public Enemy’s “Bring the Noise.” Now here’s a subway anthem: “Still Crazy After All These Years.”

* Mr. Chips: Colin Powell’s wife has dismissed speculation that he might seek the vice presidency. It’s “not anything either one of us would seek or have any idea about,” Alma Powell said in September’s Ebony magazine. She said she and her husband, chairman of the nation’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, have discussed the idea but “not with any seriousness at all. . . . He jokes about it. I simply say, ‘Listen, I don’t want any part of this.’ ”