Not in the Script: Evangelist Richard Roberts...

Not in the Script: Evangelist Richard Roberts was forgiving when a man hit him in the face Tuesday. But police were less so and cited Steven W. Rogers for trespassing. Roberts, son of televangelist Oral Roberts, was in Tulsa, Okla., rehearsing a song for his show when Rogers demanded to see him. “The fellow started coming toward him,” said a spokeswoman for Roberts. “Richard could see he was going to hit him square in the face so he turned his head and was hit in the temple.” Roberts was even willing to turn the other cheek: He did not file charges.

Put ‘er There: When Prince Charles was asked recently about the continuing weakness in his right arm where he broke a bone playing polo, he replied: “It was fine until I shook hands with Dan Quayle.” The two met in Japan last November at Prince Akihito’s enthronement. So this week Quayle sent a letter to Charles: “I am sorry if I contributed to the agony,” he wrote, and he threw in a Foam Flex-A-Grip hand exerciser “so you will be prepared for handshaking and polo.”

Kennedy Watch: Eunice Shriver, 69, was reported in stable but serious condition Wednesday in a Washington hospital where she was taken after a head-on traffic collision. The sister of Sen. Ted Kennedy suffered breaks in both arms and is expected to totally recover. Police said the car driven by Shriver crossed a center line and collided with a van, whose driver was not injured.

Kennedy Watch, 2: John F. Kennedy Jr., with his mother, Jacqueline Onassis, and sister, Caroline Schlossberg, looking on, was sworn in this week as a member of the New York State Bar. It was a quiet ending to his public embarrassment of undergoing three attempts to pass the bar exam.