A taste of Hollywood: At least one...

A taste of Hollywood: At least one citizens group is fighting the proposed installation of a hungry Godzilla-type figure atop the planned Ripley’s Believe It or Not Museum on Hollywood Boulevard.

After all, this isn’t Tokyo--yet.

Protecting the guilty? In its Monday evening segment on the afternoon opener at Dodger Stadium, KNBC (Channel 4) news showed only the hands of fans having their tickets processed at the turnstiles at the start and, later, only the backs of fans leaving at game’s end. Obviously, the station didn’t want to take a chance of showing the faces of business types who were playing hooky.

The anti-Spago: One Silver Lake cafe that isn’t courting the chi-chi crowd is Millie’s, which proclaims that its “waitress is Queen . . . and the customer is always wrong!”

Customer Gladys Foreman of Hollywood sent along the menu of the emporium, which includes a chipped-meat-on-toast dish that’s listed by the disrespectful nickname used by veterans of the U.S. forces--”(censored) on a Shingle.”

We think of it as a tribute to our troops.

List of the day: Among the 300,000 sources of college aid compiled by Money for College, a clearinghouse based in Granada Hills, are these lesser-known scholarships:

1--The Frederick and Mary Beckley Scholarship is available to needy left-handed students entering Juniata College in Huntington, Penn.

2--Rhode Island College offers $6,000 scholarships to talented chess players.

3--One grant available to members of the Future Farmers of America is the International Boar Semen Scholarship.

4--Duracell offers $1,000 scholarships to high school students who build a toy powered by one of the company’s batteries.

5--Brunswick has scholarship aid for students interested in bowling.

6--The Western Golf Assn. awards scholarships to students who have caddied for at least two years.

7--Money for College offers $500 scholarships to students who write one-page essays telling why they need assistance.

8--The Gertrude J. Deppen Scholarship is awarded to a student who does not drink, smoke, chew tobacco, take illegal drugs or compete in strenuous sports.

No, the Dodgers’ hitters aren’t eligible for No. 8.

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A letter of encouragement from former President Richard M. Nixon to Dodgers outfielder Darryl Strawberry is among the items on display at the America’s Presidents and America’s Pastime exhibition at the Nixon Library and Birthplace.