the brady bunch tv program
- Researchers at the University of Delaware and University of Missouri studied television shows on Nickelodeon, Disney and the Cartoon Network and found there were no unattractive girls on any of the shows. In addition, the girls often were portrayed as concerned about their looks or receiving comments about their appearance.
- James Michener lived in riverside home while writing 'Chesapeake'
- Harry Ratrie Jr., a World War II and Korean War veteran who became a leading businessman in Maryland's highway construction industry, died Dec. 8 of a heart attack at a hospital in Naples, Fla., where he lived. He was 90.
- Earlier this year, I received a phone call from Kate Mullikin, a California art teacher who also teaches middle school students Shakespeare, about her father Bill Mullikin, a former Baltimore actor who died a year ago.