Oh Baby: Tennis star Chris Evert has...

Oh Baby: Tennis star Chris Evert has won six U.S. Opens, seven French Opens, three Wimbledons and two Australian Opens. But having a baby was the greatest prize of all. “The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You do go down in the record books, but you don’t have anything tangible to hold on to,” the new mother told People magazine. “But having a baby--there just isn’t any comparison.” After a difficult pregnancy, prolonged labor and an emergency Cesarean, Evert, 36, gave birth to Alexander James Oct. 12.

* Run for Your Life: A one-time lobbyist and presidential aide who was presumed dead after he vanished in 1971 actually spent the next 18 years on the run because of Mafia threats, his son says. Wayne Warrington died in hiding in 1989, says Wayne Warrington Jr., after working as a speech writer and liaison with governors for Dwight D. Eisenhower. At the time he disappeared, Warrington was public affairs director of the National Assn. of Food Chains. He went on the run because mobsters had threatened him for asking grocers to stop selling a detergent in which the mob had an interest, the younger Warrington said in Phoenix.

* Times Are Tight: With tight security all around, the Princess of Wales flew into Northern Ireland to visit charities Tuesday. After security forces carried out painstaking checks--including the defusing of a bomb outside a downtown office building--the princess opened a nursery in a Belfast suburb. Diana is wife of British royal heir Prince Charles.

* Name Game: A new fad for Chinese students to give themselves English names, such as Bush, Tyrone, Mike and Mary, has some teachers in a tiff. The rash of names makes educators worry about the “worship of things foreign, which might affect the tone of society,” says one newspaper: “Some teachers believe people should . . . keep to Chinese names so as not to show the withering of character and enslavement of spirit.”