Silly Chili: A lei-laden Phyllis Diller searched...

Silly Chili: A lei-laden Phyllis Diller searched the shelves of a grocery store in Honolulu for her chili, joking that her cooking has earned her a moniker. The chili, based on her grandmother’s recipe, has been available for three years on the Mainland but is only now being introduced to Hawaii. “Tell us a joke,” cajoled a fan in the store. Diller cracked: “In my act, I always tell people I can’t cook, which is a lie. On my block, I’m known as the Wizard of Ooze.”

Home Sale: A bankrupt private club in Phoenix that includes an historic mansion where chewing-gum magnate William Wrigley Jr. lived and died has been sold. The Bank of Bermuda, which was the Mansion Club’s largest creditor and owed about $5.5 million, bought the property Tuesday with a credit bid of $3 million. The club has been shuttered since June because of slow business. The Chicago family that also owned the Cubs baseball team used the home as a winter getaway spot.

Star Power: An anonymous bidder paid $15,000 for a four-star cluster from retired Army Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf in Tampa, Fla., where celebrity memorabilia was on the block. The stars were among 89 items sold last week for more than $36,000 to benefit children’s charities. Other items snapped up include a golf score card signed by Jack Nicklaus for $2,000 and a San Francisco 49ers jersey with quarterback Joe Montana’s signature that fetched $1,100.

Resigns: A former bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church resigned from the clergy after charges of sexual misconduct were filed by several women. Lowell Mays resigned just two days before he was to be put under the magnifying glass by a church watchdog committee in Chicago. “Very serious allegations were made against Lowell Mays by different women,” said an official of the 5.3-million-member church, the largest U.S. Lutheran denomination.