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Charles Osborne Fisher
Charles Osborne Fisher, a World War II veteran and prominent Carroll County attorney whose legal career spanned more than six decades, died Friday at his Westminster home from complications of a broken hip.
He was 95.
"Charles was a real gentleman and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Celebration, Westminster (Carroll, Maryland), World War II (1939-1945), Roman Catholicism
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Charles Fisher Sr., 95, attorney and last surviving co-founder of Carroll Hospital Center, dies
Charles Osborne Fisher Sr., 95, a long standing Westminster attorney, bank director, past chair of the Health Services Cost Review Commission and last surviving co-founder of Carroll Hospital Center, died June 22 at his home after a brief illness. In...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Carroll County (Maryland), Water Supply, Baltimore Business Journal, American Legion
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Risselle 'Rikki' Fleisher
Risselle "Rikki" Fleisher, a former general counsel to the Maryland Commission on Human Relations who was a legal advocate in civil rights cases, died Tuesday of breast cancer at Stella Maris Hospice. The Bethany Beach, Del., resident was 77.
"She wanted...Tags: Minority Groups, Harvard University, Judges, Judaism, HIV
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Opening the books on holiday gifts for readers
In these tough economic times, books offer a great return on a gift-giver's investment. Relatively inexpensive, they provide hours of enjoyment for the recipient — if you make the right choice. Never fear: the Book Bag is here to help. Lovers of...Tags: Literature, Science, Infertility, Bipolar Disorder, East Side
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Review: "Power to the People" edited by Geoff Kaplan
One of Chicago's treasures is the microfilm archive of alternative newspapers housed in Harold Washington Library. I'm particularly fond of exploring the Seed, the Chicago periodical that helped Mayor Richard J. Daley's less loyal subjects prepare for the...
Tags: University of Chicago, Book, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Harold Washington Library Center, Newspaper and Magazine
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Shifting party fortunes is nothing new
Is the Republican Party toast? You would think so, listening to the political analysts and strategists, including those who prepared a harshly critical self-appraisal for the Republican National Committee. The contention that the GOP should be changed to...
Tags: The New York Times, Tea Party Movement, Bill Clinton, George H.W. Bush, Barack Obama
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Ed Holstein at his finest
Change of SubjectFrom this summer's concert at FitzGerald's in honor of Earl Pionke's -- the Earl of Old Town: Video description: One of the evening's major hits was Eddie Holstein, modestly self-proclaimed 1970s Folk Legend. Eddie teaches at Chicago's Old Town School....... -
George McGovern dies at 90; liberal standard-bearer against Nixon in '72
George S. McGovern, an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in a thundering landslide, has died. He was 90. McGovern died Sunday morning while...Tags: Gerald Ford, Depression, Behavioral Conditions, Culture, Injuries and Wounds
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Review: 'Cronkite' by Douglas Brinkley is occasionally critical
-------------------- Cronkite Douglas Brinkley Harper: 820 pp., $34.99 -------------------- Walter Cronkite was not inclined to introspection, and historian Douglas Brinkley emulates his subject in this thorough biography of the news broadcaster who in...
Tags: World War II (1939-1945), Vietnam War (1955-1975), Walter Cronkite, Chicago Mayor, Television
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Author Gore Vidal dies: Was knows for best-selling novels 'Burr,' 'Myra,' more
VarietyThe prolific, and often controversial, writer Gore Vidal, who contributed to the theater, TV and film with such notable Broadway dramas as "The Best Man" and "Visit to a Small Planet" (both adapted from his original teleplays) and screen adaptations of...Tags: Truman Capote, Pneumonia, Raquel Welch, Richard Nixon, U.S. Army
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'Bad Moon Rising' exhibit
Pits and pieces from the local sports scene. Library to display exhibition of baseball memorabilia: The Baseball Reliquary presents "Bad Moon Rising: Baseball and the Summer of '68," an exhibition chronicling the extraordinary baseball season of 1968,...Tags: Shauna Estes, Vietnam War (1955-1975), Don Drysdale, Super Bowl, Southeastern Conference
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Baseball and unrest explored in exhibition at library
Terry Cannon grew up in Detroit rooting for his hometown Tigers. Cannon is the executive director of the Baseball Reliquary, a Pasadena-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of...
Tags: New York Yankees, New York Jets, World Series, Jose Feliciano, Vietnam War (1955-1975)
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