European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 10, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 18 the stars and stripes Friday january 10, 1992 faces no places Spanky loses suit against tavern owner a to. Nil  transit j from wire reports George Mcfarland can still Call himself a Span Kyd but does not hold the rights to the image of the Chubby Beanie Clad smart Aleck he played in the our gang series that featured the Little rascals a judge ruled. . District judge Clarkson Fisher tossed out Mcfarland a lawsuit against Joseph Miller an Ocean township n.j., businessman whose tavern Spanky Mcfarland a was lined with photographs of the Little rascals. Fisher ruled monday that the 64-year-old Mcfarland relinquished rights to the Spanky name and image in a contract his parents signed with Hal Roach studios in 1936. Mcfarland a retained merely the right to use the nickname a Spanky a not the right to License the name and image of a Spanky to others a Fisher wrote. A Hal Roach studios inc. Retained those  Fishers decision runs counter to that of a Federal judge in Minnesota who ruled that a bar using a Spanky logo had violated Mcfarland a right to publicity. Other businesses including the Justin Boot co., pay Mcfarland for the right to use his name and childhood face Superman to marry actor Christopher Reeve plans to marry his longtime Girlfriend this summer his publicist said wednesday in new York. Reeve 39, Best known for playing the title role in the Superman movies will marry Dana Morosini a 30-year-old Singer and actress on june 30. It will be five years to the Day that they met said publicist Wendy Morris. It will be Reeves first marriage. He has two children from a relationship with former Model gae  Bash for Elvis fans of Elvis Presley gather around a take in front of the Graceland mansion wednesday to celebrate what would have been the Singer s 57th birthday. About 250 people attended the cake cutting at the Memphis tenn., Home where Presley died on aug. 16, 1977. Action that opened narrowed blood vessels in her heart with a balloon device. Scripps declined to say when Mother Teresa might be discharged. Mother Teresa leaves ice within hollering distance Mother Teresa was cautiously moved out of the intensive care unit of Scripps clinic wednesday two weeks after she was admitted for treatment of pneumonia and a heart problem. Quot Mother Teresa continues to improve a officials at Scripps said in a release. The 81-year-old nun who received the Nobel peace prize in 1979, was transferred to a private room at the clinic in la Jolla calif., North of san Diego. She had been in the ice since dec. 26 battling pneumonia and recovering from an angioplasty oper mayor Bob Lanier is getting a new but familiar neighbor at Houston a City Hall his wife. Elyse Lanier 44, is setting up an office in a Small room next to the mayors office. She says she will use it for her Volunteer work on City beautification projects. Lanier 66, was swim in As mayor recently. The former mayor Kathy Whitmire used the room for storage and for three to sets so she could watch evening newscasts simultaneously. The lancers who have been married six years Are used to closeness. She used to be a fixture at meetings of the Texas Highway commission and metropolitan transit authority Over which her husband presided. And at Landar corp., her husbands company she kept an office connected to his through a dressing  publishing Andre Schiffrin the former head of pantheon books announced wednesday in new York that he is opening a not for profit publishing House to Pant intellectually challenging books that commercial houses wont take a Chance on. Schiffrin said his aim is a to do for publishing what pcs originally did for television. To create an alternative that Isnit dominated by commercial values.�?�. Schiffrin said a number of authors he worked with at pantheon will be represented by his new publishing House called the new press. It is being financed by foundations including the Rockefeller Brothers fund and the John d. And Catherine t. Macarthur foundation he  minister injured prime minister Gro Harlem Brundtland suffered a concussion and broke the Small Bone at the base of her spine in a Cross country skiing fall during the Christmas holidays her office in Oslo Norway said wednesday. The prime ministers spokesman said Brundtland 52, a physician was continuing her official duties despite suffering from frequent headaches and pain. The spokesman issued no details except to say the injury was minor a but  s Slingshot stolen a burglar stole a Slingshot that belonged to Andy Griffith from a theater in mount airy n.c., the town that served As a Model for the Community of Mayberry on to s Andy Griffith show the Slingshot made for Griffith by his father was taken from the Cinema theater Over the weekend said patrolman Mitch Whitener. A i done to think it was targeted a Whitener said. Quot those people might not know what they be really  nothing else was stolen Whitener said although other Griffith Memorabilia was in the building. Griffith is a mount airy native. The Andy Griffith show used characters names and settings based on mount  cutting Corners today its easy and its convenient. If you live in government housing we�?T11 deliver your copy of the stars and stripes right to your Mailbox a it wont Cost you a Penny More than the Bookstore Price and you pay your Carrier just once a month. 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