European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 25, 1989, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes monday december 25,1989 yeah but we sf/7/ con f know Why fools fall in love from wire reports Why do fools fall in love new York stale s highest court did t answer that question but it did decide who was the Legal wife of the Man who wrote the song. The court has settled a Battle among three women All claiming to be the widow of Frankie Lymon whose biggest hit was the 1956 song Why do fools fall in love the song has earned More than $ i million in royalties. The ruling by the court of appeals effectively declared one of the women. Melra Bugle Lymon s Legal widow and gave her a partial claim to the song s copyright. Lymon was 13 when he first Sang Why do fools fall in love he later became a drug addict an died of a heroin overdose in 1968. He married Eagle a Georgia teacher in 1967 after meeting her while he was in the army her lawyer Ira Greenberg said. The court of appeals turned Down a motion by Elizabeth Waters to Appeal a lower court decision that declared Eagle the Legal widow. Zola Taylor former member of the vocal group the platters also said she was married to Lymon but later dropped out of the Case. Gumshoe gets his Man a Campus detective in Madison wish says he waited five years for the other shoe to drop make that shoes dozens of shoes. That s what happened when Herb Hanson of the University of Wisconsin police questioned a 33-year-old Iowa Man who admitted taking Side trips to wis Consin and Illinois for five years to steal shoes from students at Campus libraries. During six weeks in 1988. 12 pairs of shoes were stolen from the two University libraries in Madison. Typically a student would get up to get a drink of water and return to find his shoes gone. Police stepped up patrols in the libraries with no Success. The Man identified As an assistant business pro Fessor at a private College said he took shoes from libraries at University of Wisconsin at Madison Illi Nois state University at Normal and the University of Illinois at Champagne Urbana Hanson said. Hanson declined to identify the suspect but said he had been convicted of theft in a missing shoe Case at University of Illinois Normal in july and is seeing a therapist. The break in the Case came after shoes was stole from a student dec. 9, Hanson said. The victim and a Friend saw a Man hanging around at the Library with a pair of shoes sticking out of his Backpack and questioned him Hanson said. New York stories conversation in its entirety overheard on a bos ton to new York flight Between thin Yish male and female he 1 just want to know one thing. Have you or have you not been sleeping with Sam she peering out of window i Don t care to Dis Christmas lottery pays off residents of Pai Porta Spain Spray Champagne to celebrate winning a than of the world s richest lottery. All 80 shares of the first prize which totals $176 million were told in this town outside Valencia. Cuss it Over Hartford. A new York a rated movie theater s current attractions As posted on its Garish marquee hot girls Iii hot wives a Large Neon sign on a restaurant next door to the theater proclaims its featured attraction hot pastrami is new York City going to the dogs yes according to the list of daily specials at a Manhattan Luncheonette that features Nova Scotia and Cream cheese on a  from the lab to the Kitchen Salt Lake City chemists b. Stanley Pons and mar tin Frischmann who concocted a controversial col fusion Experiment in a Kitchen Are at it again. This time the results won t be questioned. Neither will they be the subject of a new race to harness the Power of the Sun and stars. I on and Fleischmann who earlier this year rocked the scientific Community with claims they d achieved a sustained fusion reaction in a flask annually turn their attention from Laboratory research to the Kitchen. The menu at their Holiday open House this year consisted of nearly 60 different foods and beverages. The offerings included Tortellini in sausage pesto Amicasio misto Pate with Green Peppercorns and truffles and Avocado Lemon mousse. Fleischmann said he looks askance at a scientist who does t like to Cook. Chemists on the whole take up cooking As a Hobby. Some study history or music but i d say cooking is the first  Yoc of Goff her country music Star Clint Black said he got the audience at Cameric Hall in new York to loosen up at a recent concert but there was one Small Snag. The crowd at the stately concert Hall seemed to enjoy his singing and made it seem like Austin on saturday night he said. One Man even left a note on the window of his private bus that was parked on the Street just outside Carnegie Hall. It read to Clint loved the  the problem was the Man was a City police Man and he also left behind a ticket for illegal Park ing. Black told the Dallas morning news. Black is the first country male artist in is years to have his debut single reach the no. I spot. His third single nobody s Home was released in november. Pingpong love pingpong Star Jiao Zolmin of China has married a South korean National pingpong player in an opulent traditional wedding ceremony at olympic Park in Seoul South , 25, wed Ann Jae Hyung 24, celebrating the end of a five year courtship started after the two met at an International pingpong tournament in Pakistan in 1984. They had married in a civil ceremony in Stockholm Sweden last month. The wedding procession included musicians playing flutes. The Bride was carried on attendants shoulders in litter and the Groom led the procession on a Pony. The two have said their love bloomed despite Lan Guage difficulties bureaucratic problems and the Lack of diplomatic relations Between their two nations. They plan to live in Seoul. Dear Abby that was very sound advice you gave to in the sights i Syracuse the woman whose neighbor mounted a civil War Cannon in his front Yard pointed directly at her front door. You told her to Call her local police department which would promptly Send someone from the firearms department to examine the Cannon and make sure it was t loaded this brought to mind the tra Gic death of Russ Columbo a popular Singer 2nd bandleader of the Early 30s. Columbo was visiting a Friend who intending to Light a cigarette struck a match on the barrel of an antique dueling pistol that was hanging on the Wall. The match flame somehow set off an ancient Long forgotten charge still in the pistol. The Bullet that was fired ricocheted off a tableland struck Columbo in the forehead killing him in stantly. Robert Falce los Angeles dear Abby dear or. Falce after the tragic death of Russ Columbo sept. 2, 1934there were several conflicting rumours about Bow it happened suicide cleaning Bis gun etc., but the facts were exactly As you reported them according to the Complete encyclopedia of popular music an jazz 1900-1950, volume 2, published by Crown. Every year hundreds of people Are accidentally killed by guns and rifles that were presumed to be unloaded but weren t. It any of my readers own a gun collection Hunting Rifle or a gun of any kind now would be a Good time to double Check to be sure it in t  Abby recently you advised a 17-year-old Virgin to dump her Boyfriend because he was pressuring her into sex. Then another Reader who disagreed with you said Good girls end up  wrong i am an 18-year-old Good girl and have a Boyfriend who is also 18. He s an honors graduate gorgeous and popular. We have been together for two years and have never had sex. I m not saying that he does t want to but he says that we will wait until i am ready. Not ready yet in Texas dear not ready Lucky you. Your Boyfriend sounds like a real Man. Dear Abby last year when i applied for jury duty 1 was informed that people Over the age of 76 were not eligible for jury duty. I was 87, but had All my faculties and still have them i wrote to you to protest this age discrimination. You then wrote to your trusty new York Legal Eagle Sidney d. Rosoff esq.," who advised you that i had been misinformed that in 1987 the state of new York had deleted the provision that a person had to be less than 76 years of age to be eligible for jury duty. Thank you dear Abby for caring enough about the elderly to publicize this fact. Last week i again went to the Brooklyn supreme court to apply for jury duty. Thi time i was fortified with your column from the new York Post. It worked like magic 1 was immediately accepted and am now eligible for jury duty Samuel Pevsner Brooklyn