Walk on By: Guess the date Imelda...

Walk on By: Guess the date Imelda Marcos returns to the Philippines and walk away with a pair of shoes. So says a Manila radio station, which has been stampeded with entries in the 2-week-old contest. The widow of former dictator Ferdinand Marcos once owned more than 1,000 pairs, including a disco version with blinking lights.

Signs of the Times: Thieves are getting their kicks on Route 66 by stealing the historic highway’s signs. Preservationists in the Route 66 Assn. of Missouri say more than 20 of the 300 brown-and-white, $75 signs they erected have been filched. “We’ve invested (our own) money into producing these signs,” a spokesman complained. The 65-year-old route, now gone to seed, once stretched 2,448 miles from Chicago to Santa Monica. It inspired a song and a ‘60s TV series.

Booked: She reigned during the war with Argentina and the troubles in Northern Ireland. She huddled with Ronald Reagan and kept a prim relationship with the queen. Now former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher will tell all in her memoirs, publisher HarperCollins said Tuesday in New York. The company is betting that Thatcher’s “close relationships with former President Reagan and President Bush” will garner a wide U.S. audience for the two-volume tome.

Welcome Back: Shouts of joy, the blare of a cattle horn and a hug from Archbishop Desmond Tutu greeted Nadine Gordimer, winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in literature, as she returned Wednesday to her home in Johannesburg, South Africa. “All I can say is that I am happy to be back home and among my friends,” the novelist said, weary from her long trip from the United States. Her feelings on winning the Nobel Prize? “I am more surprised than delighted.”