`There’s no credibility in what Patsy Webb says.’ -Cliff Somers, attorney for Dr. Ernest Palmer, on a nurse’s claim that the doctor ordered a 1978 baby swap.
FRANCES MALDONADO OF GLENDALE, CALIF., ON BEING FIRST IN LINE AT 7 A.M. FRIDAY TO GET INTO A DEPARTMENT STORE: `It’s sick, I guess. I wanted to go shopping.”
`Chateau La Foot’
-Inexpensive Sonoma County wine, formerly known as “Chateau La Feet of California Wine” until France’s legendary Chateau Lafite Rothchild threatened to sue.
`A library card is just like a credit card.’
-Jane O’Brien, circulation director for Schaumburg Public Library, on reporting a library patron’s unpaid replacement costs to credit bureaus.
`America is a terrible place sometimes.’
-Brother of a Singaporean immigrant who refused to give two robbers $19 from her New York neighborhood cash register. She was shot in the head by two teenagers and died on Thanksgiving.
`The better team won.’
-Detroit Lions coach Wayne Fontes, on losing to the Chicago Bears 10-6.
`I can make you feel like a queen, baby.’
-Eloise Johnson, 83, who has been selling hats to Chicago women since the Depression, to her customer, about 60 and 50 pounds overweight.
`(STAR)(STAR)(STAR) 1/2′
-Film critic Michael Wilmington, on “Ruby in Paradise,” starring Ashley Judd.
`You know when they show the picture of those children starving in Somalia on TV? That’s what he looked like.’
-Englewood District police officer Antonio Artis, about a 5-year-old boy who weighed only as much as a 1-year-old: 18 pounds.
`There’s no one I’ll turn away.’
-Ruth Williams Walker, of Uniontown, Pa., who invites all comers to Thanksgiving dinner in her home.
`The most effective regulation is that which seeks to insure honest, fair competition-and nothing more.’
-Tribune editorial, on federal policing of the information highway.
