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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Thursday, October 24, 1991

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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - October 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 14 a the stars and stripes thursday october 24, 1991 faces n places Abdul Gibson named Mistletoe favourites from wire reports Singer Paula Abdul headed a list of celebrity women that men a would most like to meet under the Mistletoe Quot according to a marketing poll released in new York. Actress Julia Roberts came in second. Actors Mel Gibson Kevin Costner and Paul Newman were the men most often chosen by women interviewed in the poll. The poll conducted by Bruskin associates was commissioned by Mastercard International apparently figuring its never too Early to get american shoppers thinking about Christmas. Only a third of the random Sample of 1,005 americans surveyed last month by phone said they usually Start their Holiday shopping in october or earlier. In the poll 22 percent of the women chose Gibson. He was followed by Costner and Newman each 14 percent actor Harrison Ford 9 percent actor Arnold Schwarzenegger 9 percent retired Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf 6 percent Aba Star Michael Jordan 4 percent and actor director Warren Beatty i percent. Of the men polled 21 percent preferred Abdul followed by Roberts 16 percent actress Michelle Pfeiffer 12 percent actress Candice Bergen 9 percent Singer Madonna actress Demi Moore and Singer Whitney Houston each 5 percent and actress Annette Bening i percent. The margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage Points. Its 4 to 5 Points for the subsample of men and  to perform pop Singer Richard Marx has a Busy Day ahead of him nov. 9. That a the Day he embarks on a five City coast to coast one Day min tour to promote his new album Rush Street. A the Rush in Rush out Quot tour starts at 9 . That Day with a performance at Balti More Washington Airport. Then Marx and his band will hop a chartered dc-8 for a noon show at John f. Kennedy Airport in new York. There a a mid afternoon performance set Lor the Airport in Cleveland a 6 15 . Concert at the Airport in the Chicago suburb of Franklin Park and finally a 10 30 . Show at the Airport in Burbank Calif. All of the concerts Wilt he  gun for Sale the gun that Jack Ruby used to kill Lee Harvey Oswald goes on the auction Block dec. 26 and could bring As much As $250,000, the auctioneer said. Earl Ruby a Detroit area businessman and Ruby a brother said he will be satisfied with $100,000 for the historic .38-caliber revolver which he took Possession of recently after a Long Legal Battle. In addition to the gun which originally Cost $62.50, the auction will also sell off the hat and shoes that Ruby wore when he killed president Kennedy s alleged Assassin. Ruby a Dallas nightclub owner was convicted of murder in 1964. The conviction was later overturned but he died of cancer before he could be  about pasta a Survey of 402 kids in new York Between the Ages of 8 and 10 shows they like pasta but some Arentt too sure just where it comes from. Eleven percent of them said they figured pasta grows in a Garden. Four percent said it must come from the Bottom of the Ocean. Seventy three percent said it is made by people from flour and the rest just did no to know. Not surprisingly the Survey commissioned by the National pasta association also reported that about 33 percent of those kids said they would like to eat More  that did t refresh talk about being in the Doghouse. A Man in Ulster county ., was charged with to passing sunday morning after police received a complaint from an Ellenville resident whose Labrador retriever took Issue with a Man sleeping in its Doghouse. The Kingston  Daily Freeman quoted Ellenville police As saying Patrick Van Leuvan 24, of Napanoch was looking for a warm place to rest after a night of drinking when he spied the Hay lined Doghouse. When the property owner heard his dog Barking at the uninvited guest sunday morning he called Village police. But before police could charge Van Leuvan they had to free him from the Doghouse. Ellenville firefighters spent about five minutes cutting the roof off the dogs domicile police said. Van Lueven told police he did not remember How he got into the Doghouse in the first  Bushel for a bet sen. Carl Levin d-mieh., paid off a bet with sen. Bob Graham a Fla. Levin gave his Florida colleague a Bushel of Michigan apples tuesday in a quiet ceremony in a Washington parking lot. The payoff was the result of a Friendly Wager Between the two men Over the University of Michigan Florida state football game played in Ann Arbor mich., on sept. 28. Graham promised Levin a Bushel of Florida oranges if Michigan Defeated Florida state. That of course did not  for Poppins Julio Andrews has become a legend a at least in the eyes of Walt Disney film aficionados. The actress flanked by Mickey mouse and another cartoon character imprinted her hands in wet Cement alter receiving the studio s legends award an its lot in Burbank Calif., on tuesday. Andrews Wen an Academy award in 1964 far her role in Quot Mary   
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