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Dangerous Space By Kelley Eskridge Mary Modern By Camille DeAngelis Crown / 368 pages / $24 In the late 1980s, British novelist Maureen Duffy wrote a compelling series, The Gor Saga, in which cloning took center stage. These works appeared soon after the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in Britain. Duffy's works were later turned into a highly successful mini-series for the British Broadcasting Corp. and shown in the United States on PBS. The unsettling world of cloning, mixed species and the other repugnant possibilities wrought by playing too hard in the laboratory a la Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein gave readers and viewers tremendous pause.

Linda Lee Duffy, 46, machine operatorLinda Lee Duffy, a machine operator, died Monday at Nanticoke Memorial Hospital in Seaford, Del., of asthma. The Federalsburg resident was 46.She was a machine operator at Maryland Plastics Co. in Federalsburg, where she had lived since moving from Baltimore in 1995.The former Linda Lee Wells was born in Easton and raised in Fells Point. She was a graduate of the city school system.Her marriage to Peter Duffy ended in divorce.Services will be held at 2 p.m. today at Frampton-Hawkins-Eskow Funeral Home, 216 N. Main St., Federalsburg.

"Give me a good cartoonist," H. L. Mencken once wrote, "and I can throw out half the editorial staff." Typical Mencken extravagance, no doubt, but the Bard of Baltimore had some basis for his observation.For among his colleagues at The Sun in the Twenties, Thirties and Forties were Edmund Duffy, a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner who could unmask a Ku Kluxer as a pitiful loser or portray Hitler as a strutting monster, and Richard "Moco" Yardley, whose sunny, whimsical drawings were love notes to the life and lore of Maryland.

As a copy boy at the Sun in the late 1940s, S. L. Harrison was able to observe celebrated Sun editorial cartoonist Edmund Duffy up close. His daily routine included carrying Duffy's finished cartoon to the paper's engraving room.Now an associate professor at the University of Miami (Fla.) School of Communication, the former copy boy has pursued a lifelong study of newspaper cartoonists and written widely on the subject. His most recent book is "The Editorial Art of Edmund Duffy."The 310-page book reproduces more than 250 of Duffy's most memorable and dramatic drawings.

Although Richard "Moco" Yardley was a contemporary of Edmund Duffy, they might as well have lived on different planets, with Yardley inhabiting the more daft and distant of the two. Born in Baltimore in 1903, he became a hometown institution with his whimsical cartoons.He joined this newspaper in 1923 as an artist-retoucher for The Evening Sun and before the end of the decade had established himself as a backpage local cartoonist. His hilarious insights had Marylanders laughing as frequently as Duffy's angry cartoons moved them to outrage.

One of Edmund Duffy's colleagues described this great cartoonist as "a terror to the unjust ... and utter ruin to frauds." He joined The Sun in 1924 and quickly established himself as a force as formidable as a galaxy of renowned Sun writers. Duffy's bold strokes bespoke power and conviction as he confronted racism at home (long before it was fashionable) and fascism abroad.Before he left the newspaper in 1948 to take up the less taxing work of drawing for the weekly Saturday Evening Post, he drew hundreds of cartoons that were equally deserving of the recognition he received with his three Pulitzer Prize winners.

A man of fierce opinions and the spirit of an iconoclast, Mike Lane's arrival on the Baltimore cartooning scene in 1972 rekindled memories of Edmund Duffy. Born in Sandy Springs, and educated at the University of Maryland and Stanford, Lane gladly gave up a business career at General Electric to earn his living with pen and brush.His outrageous expressions of outrage both provoke and exhilarate the newspaper's patrons, and keep his editors busy defending him. His political genesis was in the anti-war movements of the 1960s, an apt basis for a cartoonist's urge to protest greed, hypocrisy and inhumanity.

TOM FLANNERY used to say emphatically that mankind could "be divided into the conformists and the critics." He decisively placed himself among the latter -- and leveled his criticisms of political and social inequities with cartoons of remarkable grace and style.Mr. Flannery, a longtime editorial cartoonist for The Sun and The Evening Sun, who died last week in his sleep at his North Baltimore home, was a short, soft-spoken man with such a gentle sense of personal humor that the vehemence of his political opinions sometimes came as a surprise.

Dena Glisan, a member of the Oakland Mills boys wrestling team, won the 121-pound class at the U.S. High School Girls Wrestling Association inaugural national championships in Ann pTC Arbor, Mich., Sunday.A total of 271 girls from 38 states competed in 14 weight classes at Pioneer High School. Glisan was the only representative from Maryland.Glisan, who is believed to be the first girl ever to win a varsity match in Maryland by other than forfeit, won four straight matches during the two-day, double-elimination event.

HARRISONBURG, Va. -- Loyola freshman Megan Santacroce's three goals and inspired midfield play proved so crucial to the No. 7 Greyhounds' 10-9 women's lacrosse victory over No. 9 James Madison yesterday that Greyhounds coach Diane Aikens awarded her a starting spot for the next game.A Broadneck graduate, she scored two of the Greyhounds' final three goals, including the game-winner with 5: 08 left."For a freshman to be able to take it in crunch time, keep the ball, go through a double-team and ping the corner is unbelievable," Aikens said.

On February 7, 2009, PATRICIA T. (nee Duffy). Beloved wife of the late Thomas P. Barrett. Devoted mother of Brenda, Charlene and Thomas Barrett, Jr. Grandmother of eleven; Great grandmother of ten; Sister of James J. Duffy, Jr. and Audrey Grove and the late Catherine Severe, Owen Duffy and William and Jack Grove. Friends may call at Gonce Funeral Service, P.A., 4001 Ritchie Highway on Monday and Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. Where services will be held on Wednesday at 12 P.M. Interment Loudon Park Cemetery.

Shorter sentence denied driver in crash that killed 4 A Delaware woman who in 2002 caused a car crash that killed four members of a northern Baltimore County family should remain in prison, the Delaware Board of Pardons has decided. Tishara A. Duffy had asked that the remainder of her nine-year prison term be commuted in the deaths of Wayne and Emily Abbott of Freeland and their sons, Douglas, 9, and Brian, 5. Duffy, who pleaded guilty in 2003 to first-degree assault and four counts of criminally negligent homicide, expressed remorse during a hearing Thursday for her role in the high-speed accident on Route 1 north of Dover, but the board voted not to recommend to Gov. Ruth Ann Minner that Duffy be set free.

Anthony Swiderski said he was sitting in his Canton rowhouse Aug. 10, 2007, watching television, when he heard a bang outside, followed by screeching tires. His car had been hit, a hole punctured in the side, and a good Samaritan had taken down the tag number of the vehicle that sped away. The first responding police officer ran the number and looked up at Swiderski with a half-smile. "I work with her. She's a cop," Swiderski, 56, recalls the officer saying. What happened during the next 17 months might be frustrating for anyone who's been on the receiving end of a hit-and-run.

On October 9, 2008, ANNE V. MALLORY, of Severna Park, MD; beloved wife of the late CDR Charles William Mallory, USN; beloved mother of Michael Joseph Mallory; dear sister of the late Father Fred Duffy, Father Dan Duffy and Mary Coonradt; devoted grandmother of two grandchildren. Family and friends may visit BARRANCO & SONS, P.A. SEVERNA PARK FUNERAL HOME, Ritchie Highway at Robinson Road, on Thursday, 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday , 10 a.m., at St. John's The Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Severna Park, MD. Burial will be held December 2, 2008 at Arlington National Cemetery.

On October 10, 2008, ANNE V. MALLORY, of Severna Park, MD; beloved wife of the late CDR Charles William Mallory, USN; beloved mother of Michael Joseph Mallory; dear sister of the late Father Fred Duffy, Father Dan Duffy and Mary Coonradt; devoted grandmother of two grandchildren. Family and friends may visit BARRANCO & SONS, P.A. SEVERNA PARK FUNERAL HOME, Ritchie Highway at Robinson Road, on Thursday, 2 to 4 p.m. and 6 to 8 p.m. A Mass of Christian Burial will be held Friday , 10 a.m., at St. John's The Evangelist Roman Catholic Church, Severna Park, MD. Burial will be held December 2, 2008 at Arlington National Cemetery.

There were no record shops in the neighborhood, and the nearest one was two bus rides away. The tiny, hopelessly conventional Welsh town where Aimee Anne Duffy grew up offered next to nothing in the way of soul education. But years later, the singer, who goes by just her last name, would find the earthy stylist within. A new world opened up when, at about age 19 or 20, she discovered the sounds of Aretha Franklin, Sam Cooke and other legends from soul's golden era. Such vintage sounds largely inspired Rockferry, her critically lauded, gold-selling debut that was released in March.

On July 25, 2008, WALTER J. ZAWADSKI, beloved husband of the late Winifred A. Zawadski (nee Duffy), devoted father of Joseph M. Zawadski and his wife Linda and Joanne Duffy and her husband Dan Saffer, dear brother of Joseph Zawacki, grandfather of Dan and his wife Rachael, Andy and his wife Sara, Meagan and her husband Zach and James, great-grandfather of Fiona. Friends may call at the family owned Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc., 1050 York Rd (beltway exit 26) on Tuesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 P.M. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Matthew Church on Wednesday at 10 A.M. Interment Parkwood Cemetery.

Susan "Suzie" Parthemos, who with her family owned a popular Irvington restaurant, died Friday of a heart ailment at St. Agnes Hospital. The Charlestown retirement community resident was 77. She, her husband, James Parthemos, and her parents, Lillian and Sam Malas, opened Duffy's restaurant in 1954. Later, she and her husband took it over before selling it in 1999. It was known for seafood dishes - she negotiated prices early in the morning with watermen - as well as large dinners at reasonable prices, a homemade green goddess dressing and a congenial atmosphere.

Dangerous Space By Kelley Eskridge Mary Modern By Camille DeAngelis Crown / 368 pages / $24 In the late 1980s, British novelist Maureen Duffy wrote a compelling series, The Gor Saga, in which cloning took center stage. These works appeared soon after the first test-tube baby, Louise Brown, was born in Britain. Duffy's works were later turned into a highly successful mini-series for the British Broadcasting Corp. and shown in the United States on PBS. The unsettling world of cloning, mixed species and the other repugnant possibilities wrought by playing too hard in the laboratory a la Mary Shelley's Dr. Frankenstein gave readers and viewers tremendous pause.

The Carroll Child Care Centers Inc. in Westminster is trying to launch a fundraising campaign, after the United Way of Central Maryland unexpectedly denied the nonprofit day care center a $71,000 grant to serve low-income families. To brainstorm ideas and connect the center with donors, the Community Foundation of Carroll County is sponsoring a brown bag luncheon Friday for the center. "This is doable. It's not like they're trying to raise $1 million," said Audrey Cimino, the foundation's executive director.