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'Puppet Masters' prey on ear4E Danielle Steel battles 'Terminator 2V8E Rid crawl spaces of musty odors1 1E A Guthrie tribute to Jessica Tandy 4E Ann, Abby11E TV, Radio 10E Comics8-9E Crossword 11 3 4 nvi lOriuo Compiled by Patty Pryor-Nolan SHELTER 4yg ANTIQUES REMNANTS OF A Rockledge, a Winona-area mansion designed by Chicago architect George Maher in 1911, was torn BOwn by its owner in 1987. FASHION Undercover on the runways The Council of Fashion Designers of America has come up with the truly outstanding idea of curbing drug abuse among high-; fashion models and their retainers I but how? With counseling, education and other forms of i prevention? Heck, no. They're taking the direct approach by arranging to have undercover narcotics officers sta-: tioned backstage when Fashion Week kicks off Oct. 30 at Bryant Park in New York City. How will the program accomplish its goals? Simple.

If a model or anyone else backstage is seen using an illegal substance, an un-i dercover cop will handcuff that person and drag him or her off to the hoosegow forthwith. Scripps Howard News Service mmmmKmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmimmmmmmmmmmm mmmmmtmimv.wm'vmw.mv'u'', if; ii hii nro JV" 1 if-1! 1 ftk TNiv'- xi V. f- l-f 1' i .5 TELEVISION Sleep tight, Conan Media analyst Chuck Ross says that, according to i sources at NBC and affiliates, if i Conan O'Brien's ratings don't go up during November sweeps week, his "Late Night" show will i be taken off the air in January. Inside Media Photos by Donna Kelly Grace Watkins King (above) was a world champion trapshooter who got coaching from Annie Oakley. Right, the formal dining room of Kingswere, built by E.L; King Sr.

for his daughter. fistoric mansion is gone, but collectors till can buy tokens of its bygone elegance POLITICS Jazzing up the oath In "On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency" (Simon Schuster; i $24), the New Yorker's Washing-: ton reporter, Elizabeth Drew, re- i calls that Harry Thomason, TV i producer and longtime friend of Bill Clinton, suggested when plan- ning the inauguration that the i presidential oath of office be changed. Thomason, director of the inaugu-! ration festivities, suggested that i the phrase "preserve, protect and defend" be altered so that "de-: fend" comes first, Drew writes, This, Thomason said, would make i it sound stronger. According to Drew, this bright idea was greeted by much laugh-i ter, as the exact wording of the oath is set down in the Constitution. Thomason called the anecdote "patently ludicrous," noting that i he used to be a history teacher and that he knows the Constitu-j tion.

Drew told the Washington Post that she has confidence in her sources, and she's standing by the story. San Francisco Chronicle By Linda MackStaff Writer riomer, Homer, Minn. An early Dresden "portrait" plate from the mansion's formal dining room features a bird pattern. a iimesione leage overiooKing I the Mississippi River just south of Winona stood one of the Mid west's great houses. Called "Rock- These antique ice-tea spoons came from Italy.

for the Kings' second house, where the sale will be held and even some cases of Watkins vanilla, 1927 vintage. A burglary last weekend resulted in the loss of family items worth about $20,000 but didn't really dent the sale inventory, said Judy Loewen of LEE-ANN, which is running the estate sale. "By Winona standards, it's an extensive collection of personal and household items, although it's a fraction of what the family had," said Kent Gernander, a Winona lawyer who represented the Kings. Major collections of jade, art and jewelry were sold off earlier. A 1931 Cartier emerald-and-diamond bracelet sold at Sotheby's in 1988 fetched a record price of slightly more than $2 million.

But there will be plenty of historical and collector Interest in the items, which range from Italian marquetry tables to a ROCKLEDGE continued on page 3E catalogs and in prestigious auctions, sometimes fetching five-figure prices. Original Maher-designed objects will be scarce at a sale that starts early this morning in Homer, six miles south of Winona. But Louis XV furniture, jade bowls and beakers, Cartier and Tiffany jewelry and memorabilia from four generations of the King family will be plentiful. On sale will be the trophies of Grace Watkins, world champion trapshooter in 1922 and 1923, whose father had hired Annie Oakley to teach her how to shoot. Alongside them will be King's turn-of-the-century boxing posters, his canes that double as guns and flasks, and souvenirs of the couple's two African safaris.

The objects on sale wW include celadon porcelain, Chinese silk scroll paintings, Georg Jensen silver, wedding dresses, light fixtures and a pool table designed AROUND TOWN 4fd.ge," it was designed by Chicago ar-tinitect. George Maher in 191 1 for Grace Watkins King and E.L. King who Owned the huge Watkins home-prod--ibts company. Maher also designed everything in the house, from chairs and and urns to clocks and lamps and silver service, making the estate an xiraordinarily complete work of art. yicw, almost all of it is gone.

Shortly before his death, E. L. King Jr. had the house torn down in over objections from the commu- and his own sons. The decorative eYnents were sold off in the early 980s.

Now spread among private and jaiblic collections here and abroad, they tJH crop up on the cover of museum Ex-Journey singer's hiatus led to rediscovery of muse Steve Perry Opening act: Sass Jordan Where: Northrop Auditorium, University of Minnesota's East Bank campus, Minneapolis When: 8 p.m. today Tickets: 989-5151 He's drawn to humor That star of movies and TV shows, Bam Bam Rubble, is visiting the Twin Cities. Actually, it's not really the little boy who plays the neighbor kid in "The Flintstones" cartoons. It's Don Messick, who was the voice of Bam Bam (as well as Scooby Doo, Astro, Papa Smurf and many other well-known cartoon characters). Messick will be at the Stay Tooned Animation Gallery at 6 p.m.

today as part of the gallery's i lecture series. He'il talk about his i career, show clips of his work and answer questions from the audience. He also will help kick off "The Art i of Hanna Barbara," a collection of painted animation cells from such well-known TV shows as "Scooby Doo," "The Jetsons," "The Flint-: stones" and "Yogi Bear." Admis-' slon is free. The gallery is at 4944 France Av. Edina.

Call i -Jeff Strickler Senior artists prove that creativity often jplooms late in life By Jennifer FooteNewhouse News Service Harriet Doerr dropped out of college to marry because it never occurred to her to stay. She became a housewife because it was what she wanted. She hever wrote fiction, she says, "because I didn't know I could." When she finally did, at 70, she won a National Book Award. Now 83, with a second bestseller to her name, Doerr cannot explain her genius. Instead she is almost apologetic.

"I never meant to publish a book," she says. Thomas Dwyer is 60. He was a radio communications officer in the Foreign Service. He always was a yery shy man. "I still find it very hard to have conversations with people," he says.

Seven years iafter his retirement, Dwyer is a principal dancer with the Liz Lerman Dance Exchange, performing on the load more than nine months of the year. "I didn't know I had creativity in me," he says. "It still does boggle my mind." LATA, BLOOMERS continued on page 3E By Klra BillikAssociated Press For a long time, one of rock's most recognizable voices didn't feel like singing. Leading Journey through 10 years of rigorous recording and touring left Steve Perry wrung out. Now Perry is armed with a new appreciation of life and is ready to have a go at it again.

"I didn't have any idea that music would come back in my heart," said Perry, who will play the second concert on his solo tour tonight at Northrop Auditorium in Minneapolis. "I told myself I was never going to do it again, that I never was going to sing again, that I'm finished. I did what I set out to do, I worked really hard. Nobody in the band should be angry with me, because we had a 1 0-year run. 4 life, no doubt, and I've untied a few.

A few I've just loosened, and I'll probably never untie them. As long as they're not cutting off the circulation, I'm OK." Journey remains Columbia Records' best-selling hard-rock band, with 35 million in worldwide album sales to its credit. The San Francisco band boasted four Top 10 albums Photo Reisig Taylor Steve Perry: "I just had to leave the group and stop touring and not brreatlve anywhere." "There are some Hpts in my rope of PERRY confined on page 3E.