Atwater at Home: The phone rang in...

Atwater at Home: The phone rang in the home of GOP chief of staff Mary Matalin at 6:45 a.m. “Hey, what’s movin’?” asked Republican party chairman Lee Atwater. Atwater is back home after a New York hospital stay and hungry for the latest political news. The prognosis after treating his “aggressive and dangerous” brain tumor won’t be known for about three months, said Dr. Paul Kornblith.

Blacklisted: Blacks have given President George Bush the highest level of sustained approval for any Republican President in 30 years, a New York Times/CBS News poll released Friday said. Fifty-six percent of blacks approved of the job Bush was doing; 26% disapproved. “He’s fair, compared to the last one we had,” Lawson Kilgore, a Cincinnati-area clerk told the Times.

Evangelist’s Fall: Billy Graham, 71, was hospitalized last week in Rochester, Minn., so doctors could remove part of a rib he injured in a fall about a month ago. The evangelist has had problems with his ribs after suffering two earlier falls. He was in stable condition Friday.

TV Ferment: Yulia Sukhanova, the first Miss U.S.S.R., is capitalizing on her pageant victory by making a yogurt commercial for U.S. TV. “She wanted to dispel American attitudes that Russian women aren’t beautiful,” said Tricia Erickson, owner of the McLean, Va.-based modeling agency handling the 17-year-old’s career.