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52 The Province Monday, May 28, 1990 JJn)DfD MB Mn 1 News Services V' A A A 'AfJli'A 1 A i'V i 'V-. 'v baa I r- A A AA I After eight years of living together, actor Robert Wagner and actress Jill St. John have finally tied the knot. The couple was married Saturday at Wagner's Pacific Palisades home with Wagner's three daughters, Kate, 26, Natasha, 19, and Courtney, 16, as attendants. It was the fourth marriage for Wagner, 60, whose previous wife, Natalie Wood, drowned in 1981, and also the fourth for the 49-year-old St.

John. KENNEDY MEMORIAL: The state of Massachusetts is paying formal tribute to John Fitzgerald Kennedy for the first time. In ceremonies at the Massachusetts State-house tomorrow, the 73rd anniversary of his birth, JFK's children Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and John F. Kennedy Jr. will unveil a 2.5-metre (eight-foot) statue of the popular president in his prime.

For the president's widow, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, the statue represents the fruition of desires to celebrate his birth and not dwell on his 1963 assassination. DIB HOPPING TO IT: Ashrita Furman plans to go to the top of Toronto's CN Tower, one step at a time. On a pogo stick. The 35-year-old resident of New York City plans to ascend all 1,760 steps June 26, jumping upward for 554 metres (1 ,818 feet) Is he doing it for fun, power, glory, fame? Or is he simply nuts? "None of the above," grins the muscular Furman. "What thrills me most is to do something when I'm not even sure it's physically possible.

"I don't want to go all the way up CN' Tower to become a celebrity or feed my ego. Who knows, I might even like the view. "I'm not going up there just to smash a record I've got plenty of those." That's true. He holds 12 Guinness Book of World Records titles, including one for travelling the greatest distance on a pogo stick. For that one he went up Japan's Mount Fuji.

BILLY'S REBUTTAL: Billy Joel is trying to squelch stories that his marriage to Christie Brinkley is in trouble. The reports started AP photo ROBERT WAGNER, JILL ST. JOHN fourth marriage for each when Brinkley was seen with race-car driver Danny Sullivan and things escalated with a tabloid story about Joel and another woman. "Our marriage is very solid," he said during the weekend. "1 guess when celebrity news is slow, the press starts cooking up the old Billy-Christie split story." EVA KNOWS BEST: Zsa Zsa has nothing on her sister, Eva Gabor, when it comes to speaking her mind.

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need another And 1 agreed him because I EVA GABOR Want to be our Smile of the Day? If you're 19 or older, write to the Photo Editor, The Province, 2250 Granville Vancouver, B.C., V6H 3G2. Be sure to include your telephone number. always believed that the man knows better," she said. "So why did I do it? Because I made the man out to be, what? The right arm, or the shining horse? Whatever the expression is Men don't know best; they cpuldn't even give birth to a child." Associated Press GROWING UPTURNS But Girls Clubs' officials still worried the public would assume the two organizations had merged. The name change was approved by the national body at its annual meeting.

However, several of the oldest Girls Clubs object to what they said was abandoning a tradition. "This club played a very important role in the whole integration of women into society," said Nancy Achin Sullivan, executive director of the Girls Club of Lowell, about 30 kilometres north of Boston, Mass. "We are very committed to its history." who directed the search for a new name. She says the new title underscores the group's mission by "moving away from the word which suggests exclusivity and recreation." The issue arose two years ago during a Girls Clubs' lawsuit against the Boys Clubs of America which had decided to change its name to Boys and Girls Clubs of America to reflect its growing female membership. The case was eventually settled out of court when the Girls Clubs agreed to accept $760,000 US and withdraw its objections.

LOWELL, Mass. The Girls Clubs of America has changed its name to Girls and adopted a new slogan: "Growing up is serious business." These days, the 45-year-old, network balances lessons in baking pies with lessons in selling them. More than half its members are poor girls, aged six to 14, from ethnic-minority, single-parent families. "The theme is to turn these girls into autonomous, independent adults so they don't get stuck in some awful cycle without any hope," says Keven Bellows, SERIOU.