*The FBI has recovered the long-lost manuscript of Pearl S. Buck’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, “The Good Earth,” after the daughter of one of the author’s former secretaries tried to put it up for auction. The 400-page manuscript turned up this month at the Samuel T. Freeman & Co. auction house in Philadelphia, and officials there notified investigators, federal officials said Wednesday. The original typed manuscript, complete with Buck’s handwritten edits, went missing from her family farm in suburban Philadelphia circa 1966.
*Usher and fiance Tameka Foster are expecting their first child together. “We are extremely excited at this point in our lives planning our wedding and the joy that comes with expecting our first child together,” the couple said in a statement.
*The cast of “Ocean’s Thirteen” has donated $1 million to the World Food Program through Not On Our Watch, the organization formed by George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Matt Damon, Don Cheadle and producer Jerry Weintraub to raise awareness of the crisis in Darfur.
*Rosie O’Donnell is set to reprise her role as a lottery winner on “Nip/Tuck,” an FX representative tells “E! News.”
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Personals was compiled by Emily Rosenbaum from Tribune news services and staff reports.
