New Line Theatre has begun to book its 2011 season with:  the all-black Broadway musical, “Passing Strange”, which will hit the stage in October.  Then, “Cry, Baby”, the company’s 20th anni production of “Two Gentlemen of Verona” and the closer, “High Fidelity”. . . World News in Clayton and Westport is being sold by the Selvidge clan to a family relative.  The late founder, Roberta Selvidge had three chldren who still work there. . . The Monsanto Fund has just doled out $150,000 to support our Symphony’s IN UNISON program, which is designed to provide music-related resources to area churches and increasing community access to Powell Hall. IN UNISON reaches more than 20,000 people here in more than 40 churches. . . Philanthopist Sanford “Sandy” McDonnell, former chairman of the board of McDonnell Douglas Corp., is much too ill. . . Christine Halpern and Jack Erker are still canoodling after 20 years. . .Newest member of the FBI St. Louis Citizen Academy Association is Jim Biggs, whose brother Lt. Col. Doug Biggs pilots Marine One; another brother, Sgt. William Biggs was one of the Kirkwood officers who was killed in the line of duty.  Ray Kerlagen was made board member of the organization and serves as chairman of the Child ID Program.  The FBISTLCAA will hold “pictures with Santa” on Saturday at Arts Collective, 3301 Meramec Ave., where they hope to combine the event with its Child ID program. Volunteers are needed. . .Gateway Chapter of the Leukemia and Lymph Society has added new board members: Dr. Nancy Lee Bartlett of WashU School of Med; Beth Davis of Clear Channel; Mike Hubbell of Boomerang Tube; Jeanie Jeans, teacher/educator and barrister Jerome Kraus. . . From the Rams in Earth City comes word about do-right gridders.  Steven Jackson, in addition to hosting Saturday’s Motion for Kids Holiday Party, which will serve a record number of 3,600, is adopting 39 local families to ensure a happy holiday season as part of the SJ39 Foundation’s 39 wishes.  Oshlomogho Atogwee is donating $5,000 to Santa’s Helpers, a local non-profit, that supplies holiday gifts to families and refugees and elderly in need.  OJ is also helping Santa’s Helpers to deliver the gifts.  James Laurinaltis and Daniel Fellis captained the Salvation Army’s bell ringing efforts. . .Artistic Sensations.com made holiday dreams come true for a special little girl with the help of CBS-TV’s new daytimer “The Talk.” Through the Make-A-Wish org, “The Talk” surprised Larkin Dorris and her family – on the air -with a new playhouse in her backyard replete with customized furniture to outfit it designed by our town’s Artistic Sensations as chosen by the show’s producers and presented by Julie Chen.