TV & VIDEO - Oct. 8, 1990

First Lady Makes Pitch on Soap: First Lady Barbara Bush will appear as herself in the Oct. 18 installment of ABC’s daytime soap opera “All My Children.” Mrs. Bush will not be shown with other inhabitants of the show’s fictional Pine Valley, but rather appears at the program’s end in a public service announcement benefiting the National Bone Marrow Registry. The first lady’s brief spot complements a current story line in which the survival of a child stricken with leukemia depends on receiving a bone marrow transplant. Mrs. Bush outlines the simple, painless test for bone marrow compatibility and encourages viewers to contact the National Bone Marrow Registry.