Schroeder Takes Heart at Record

--Heart patient William J. Schroeder may have missed his son’s wedding in Jasper, Ind., over the weekend, but on Saturday he equaled the 112 days’ survival record set by his predecessor, Barney Clark. Doctors at Humana Hospital Audubon in Louisville, Ky., had decided that the 90-mile trip to Jasper for the wedding would be too stressful for him. Instead, hospital officials took the wedding to Louisville for a dress rehearsal and dinner, which Schroeder attended. “He’s in really good spirits,” said Larry Hastings, clinical director at the hospital. Meanwhile, in Jasper, Terry Schroeder, 25, and Julie Schnarr, 22, were married in a ceremony performed by the heart recipient’s uncle, Father Sylvester Schroeder, at St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church. Among those attending was Dr. Robert Jarvik, inventor of the Jarvik-7 artificial heart.

--The Queen of Thailand had a date at a New York theater with the King of Siam, breaking a royal taboo on the play “The King and I,” which pokes fun at a 19th-Century ruler of the long-ago Southeast Asian monarchy. It’s a satire on the King of Siam, portraying him as an Oriental bumpkin who had many wives but who required an English woman to teach him how to use a knife and fork. Queen Sirikit, through a spokeswoman, said that she does not take the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical as an affront, and only attended it because the show’s star, Yul Brynner, invited her. “She thinks the show is fun. She and the king are open-minded and we all know that the court would never act like that,” Pharani Mahanonda, a spokeswoman for the queen, said. The queen arrived in the United States last week and was honored with the Asia Society’s Humanitarian Award for her efforts to preserve Siamese folk arts and crafts and to advance the status of women.

--To Scott Bentz, a junior at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah, running for vice president of a campus women’s affairs office seemed like a crazy idea. But after the votes were tallied, Bentz emerged the winner. The 25-year-old anthropology major, who is the first male elected to office in the group, ran on the slogan, “Scott Bentz boldly goes where no man has gone before.” Bentz’s campaign manager, Glen Morgan, said: “He felt maybe he could help men understand women better, their role at BYU and in society.” Stephanie Black, the current vice president, expressed dismay at the outcome of the election. “I really feel you have to be a woman to represent women on this campus,” she said. “Maybe it’s a form of rebellion. I’m not sure.”