Update

FRED TUTTLE Last summer Tuttle, 79, surprised Vermont when his semi-spoof run for the G.O.P. senatorial nomination resulted in a win. But it was truly an upset victory: Tuttle's wife Dottie had refused to vote for him and hoped aloud that Vermonters wouldn't send the retired Tunbridge dairy farmer to Washington. Well, the missus is happy again. Though he garnered 23% of the vote--quite a feat since he spent only about $250--Tuttle lost to incumbent Democratic Senator Pat Leahy. "I was proud of him," Dottie admits. Now Fred spends his days hanging out at the local senior-citizen center and responding to numerous requests from kids to come speak at their schools. Tuttle dedicated his $600 in left-over campaign funds to the Tunbridge public library, and he is going back into the movie business. Tuttle's biggest campaign boost was his role in neighbor and campaign-manager John O'Brien's satiric film Man with a Plan, about an upstart campaigner. Tuttle has a bit part in O'Brien's next film, Nosey Parker. This time he plays a villain.

REWARD FOR A "RIGHTEOUS GENTILE" Christoph Meili, a watchman at the Union Bank of Switzerland in Zurich, tasted fame in January 1997 when he revealed that the bank was shredding Nazi-era documents just as death-camp survivors were trying to reclaim their accounts. Fired from his job and subjected to anonymous death threats, Margot Hornblower reported in our May 25, 1998, issue, he emigrated to New York City, where he started work as a doorman. Now Meili, 30, has accepted an $18,000-a-year scholarship at Chapman University in Orange, Calif. The "1939" Club, a group of 650 local Holocaust survivors, will pay all living expenses for him, his wife and two children over four years. "There weren't too many people who stood up for Jews during the Holocaust," says club president William Elperin, son of two survivors. "Now Christoph has stood up for them and was punished." To get ready for school, Meili has quit his job and is studying English. "I was just one of the little people who felt I should do what I could to see justice done," he says. "Now I look forward to starting a new life."