Keeping Tabs: Country music singer Loretta Lynn...

Keeping Tabs: Country music singer Loretta Lynn and a supermarket tabloid have settled an $11.5 million libel suit out of court, reports the Associated Press in Nashville. The amount of the settlement last week was not listed in U.S. District Court documents. Lynn sued The Globe in 1989 over a story alleging she was drug dependent and suffered a near-fatal overdose. The singer is known for such hits as “Coal Miner’s Daughter” and “The Pill.”

Word From the Top: Donald Trump has that odd-looking haircut because he’s worried about possible baldness and has had hair transplants and scalp-reduction surgery, claims Esquire magazine. Earlier reports of his hair treatments more than a year ago brought swift denials from his office. But the current issue of the magazine says the work was done in L.A. in 1989 by the same plastic surgeon who plied his skills on Ivana Trump’s face and breasts six months earlier. Trump denies he had the surgery but confirms Ivana’s. The doctor isn’t talking.

Word War: Vice President Dan Quayle said he flubbed it in Boston recently when he called the Persian Gulf War a victory for the “forces of aggression.” In a talk to journalists, Quayle said the war was “a stirring victory for the forces of aggression against lawlessness.” Quayle joked later to reporters: “I know you find it hard to believe that I misspoke.”

Jaws: A Japanese fighting dog, the first of its breed to enter Britain, has sparked outcry among animal-welfare groups. Ish, twice the size of a rottweiler and wolfing eight cans of food a day, is a tosatoken, developed in the 19th Century for pit fighting. Tosatokens, or tosas, stand as tall as a man, weigh 280 pounds and rank second to the American pit bull terrier on some breeders’ lists for violence. A Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals inspector was horrified after the dog was released from quarantine: “There will be an outcry when the first child is savaged.” The breeder plans to sell the puppies, valued at $5,300, under a no-fighting contract.