The March issue of the National Puzzlers' League newsletter reports, to Barry Traub's delight, that "October Sky" is an anagram of "Rocket Boys," the book on which the movie is based.
-- WHERE THERE'S A WILL . . . Joe DiMaggio's lawyers have asked that his will, stored in the Broward County clerk's office, be kept in a safe to protect it from collectors who might want to steal it. Wills are normally accessible to anyone who requests to see them."I haven't ever had another request like this one," said Probate Judge Mel Grossman, "but then, I'm not sure we've had anyone else whose signature was really worth something."
Meanwhile, a reader who saw DiMaggio socially three or four times a year says that he would have been very upset at the notion of Bill Clinton attending his funeral.
DiMaggio loved to talk politics, said the caller, and was a "staunch, staunch conservative." He went out of his way to say how much he disliked Clinton, insisting "We've got to get rid of that guy" well before the Lewinsky scandal broke.
-- WRONG WAY -- Was it an April Fools' joke, wonders Jacki Bernier, that that day's issue of the Berkeley Voice carried the banner notice: "Daylight Savings: Don't forget to set clocks back an hour Sunday"? -- Leah Garchik