Eleanor Roosevelt

"Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok," edited by Rodger Streitmatter. Free Press. 336 pages. $25.Before you get upset about an Eleanor Roosevelt scandal thrust in your face - who needs another scandal? - I suggest looking at "Empty Without You: The Intimate Letters of Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok" in the following light.This correspondence invites us to compare Mrs. Roosevelt to the ancient Greeks. The Greek elders' relations with their male proteges were, in many ways, an outgrowth of their lofty social position.

There are many things to say about Brad Paisley's new song. The country music giant is under fire for "Accidental Racist," about a Starbucks employee who objects to Mr. Paisley's Confederate battle flag shirt. The song, Mr. Paisley's attempt to metabolize his conflicted feelings as "a white man comin' to you from the southland" trying to pick his way through the minefield of race, has generated, well ... feedback. Rolling Stone dubbed it "questionable. " Gawker called it "horrible.

No. 2 Centennial advanced in the first round of the 4A-3A, Region IV girls soccer playoffs by shutting out host Eleanor Roosevelt of Prince George's County, 5-0, yesterday.Kelly Butler recorded a hat trick to lead the Eagles (12-1, 6-1), who were forced to play without co-captain Natalie Rich. Rich was given a red card in last week's game against Glenelg and not allowed to play."I wasn't totally happy with our play on defense, but we had enough fire power on offense to make up the difference," said Centennial coach Rick Pizarro.

Top-ranked Arundel won a backyard brawl Thursday night by defeating a scrappy Eleanor Roosevelt volleyball team, 25-20, 25-15, 25-18, in the state Class 4A volleyball semifinals at Ritchie Coliseum. Now the Wildcats (19-0) will see whether they can knock out the neighborhood bully for the state championship. The bully comes in the form of Sherwood. The Warriors are winners of 56 straight matches and have ended Arundel's season the past two years — in the state semifinals in 2010 and the state championship last year.

WASHINGTON -- Moments before Hillary Rodham Clinton walked into a congressional hearing room to be grilled on health care reform in the fall of her first year in the White House, an aide whispered in her ear:"This is Eleanor Roosevelt time."And so it is again. As she moves about in the very public, not very policy oriented, role she has carved out for herself in the wake of the health care debacle, Mrs. Clinton is looking more and more Rooseveltian.She has made a number of foreign trips, as her predecessor did. She has moved from inside policy-maker to outside "advocate," as Mrs. Roosevelt did after encountering public scorn for her more direct involvement in government.

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT:VOLUME I, 1884-1933.Blanche Wiesen Cook.Viking.481 pages. $30.Eleanor Roosevelt led one of the most extraordinary American lives of this century, and in the first volume of this biography Blanche Wiesen Cook looks closely at its early history. It is a story that begins badly and ends well, much like the novels that Eleanor devoured as a lonely girl, sitting in a tree on her grandmother's estate.An unhappy childhood left an indelible mark on her. She was one of the three offspring of Anna and Elliott Roosevelt, the brother of Theodore Roosevelt.

Albert Smith and Billy Mulcahy combined to score 36 of Dulaney's 39 second-half points, as the host Lions (19-4) edged Eleanor Roosevelt from Prince George's County, 64-61, in a Class 4A, Region II quarterfinal playoff game last night.Smith scored a game-high 32 and Mulcahy added 16 for Dulaney, which will visit High Point in a semifinal game on Thursday at 7.In other regional quarterfinal games:Damion Cannon (8 points) and Derrick Newton (7) scored all but two of Northwestern (15-5) of Prince George's County's fourth-quarter points en route to a 58-53 victory over Woodlawn (16-4)

Heading into the final event of the state track and field championships, the Class 4A boys title was there for the taking.But it was Eleanor Roosevelt, not Old Mill, that seized the opportunity.Old Mill could not score in the 1,600-meter relay, while Eleanor Roosevelt rallied to finish third and edge the Patriots and Mervo for the state title yesterday at Western Maryland College.Old Mill led, 85-84, over Eleanor Roosevelt heading into the final event. The Patriots started well in the run, but the Raiders didn't, struggling in the early going.

The intimate presidential inner circle of Franklin D. Roosevelt was diminished last month with the death in McLean, Va., of Mollie Dorf Somerville, an author, historian and lecturer who had been an aide to Eleanor Roosevelt. Somerville, who was 102, was the aunt of retired City Circuit Judge Paul A. Dorf, 83, now a partner in the Baltimore law firm of Adelberg, Rudow Dorf & Hendler LLC. "She was always my favorite aunt," Dorf recalled the other day. "Six months before her death, we went to see her, and she held a tea cup without her hand shaking.

Marjorie Cowles Crain, retired Western Maryland College circulation librarian, book collector and avid walker, died of Alzheimer's disease Monday at Longview Nursing Home in Manchester. She was 89. The longtime Westminster resident was born Marjorie Cowles in Patterson, N.J., where she was raised and graduated from high school. After earning a bachelor's degree in English in 1933 from American University in Washington, Mrs. Crain studied at Columbia University and Montclair State Teachers College in New Jersey.

Shawn Petty is listed at 230 pounds, but he looked bigger than that as he took practice snaps in the end zone last week, dwarfing the other skill-position players standing around him. Petty - the converted freshman linebacker who will start at quarterback for the Terps against Georgia Tech on Saturday - seemed almost as wide as the center hiking him the ball during warmups before the Boston College game. He outweighs each of the four previous Maryland quarterbacks - all sidelined by season-ending injuries - by at least 25 pounds.

The Eleanor Roosevelt High School music program is holding its annual fruit sale each month October through March. Proceeds from the sale of freshly picked oranges and grapefruit are used to provide quality instrument and music for the band and orchestra program. To order fruit, call the ERHS Fruit Line, 301-345-5393.

Ruth L. Thomas, whose philanthropic interests ranged from medical and educational institutions to helping newly arrived immigrants, died Wednesday of complications from a stroke at Springhouse Assisted-Living in Pikesville. Mrs. Thomas would have celebrated her 98th birthday this coming week. The daughter of Jacob Legum, founder of Park Circle Motor Co., and Rose l. Legum, a homemaker, Ruth Legum was born in Norfolk, Va., and moved with her family to Fairview Avenue in Forest Park in 1917.

Eleanor Roosevelt football coach Tom Green has a simple philosophy when it comes to his future Division I players. “I don't think it's asking too much for a kid playing in the ACC to play both ways on the high school level,” Green said. Case in point: the high school career of Shawn Petty , a Maryland commitment who started at quarterback and linebacker for Green's Raiders. The 6-foot-3, 240-pound senior was the ultimate leader for Eleanor Roosevelt on offense and defense.

Music students at Eleanor Roosevelt High School will present a winter concert Thursday, Dec. 8, at 7:30 p.m. The concert features the Roosevelt and symphonic bands; symphony orchestra, concert orchestra and Roosevelt Strings; and the women's, chamber and gospel choirs. The school is located at 7601 Hanover Pkwy., in Greenbelt. For more information, call 301-345-5393.

4A Regional Semifinals South C. H. Flowers 13, Eleanor Roosevelt 8 Suitland 21, Henry Wise 20 3A Regional Semifinals South Westlake 14, Potomac 6 1A Regional Semifinals South Dunbar 50, Southside Academy 6 Surrattsville 13, Dubois 12 MIAA B Conference Semifinals Boys' Latin 21, Curley 14 MIAA C Conference Semifinals ...

Howard County players earned three of five championships at the Region III tennis tournament at the Wilde Lake Tennis Club yesterday.Wilde Lake junior Ari Zweig, who won the boys county singles title a week ago, rallied to defeat Eleanor Roosevelt senior Clint Lee, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4, for his first region title.Centennial juniors Jessica Abel and Matt Lano, mixed doubles county champions, upended Shannon Ballard and Maurice Taylor of Bowie, 6-2, 6-4. In girls doubles, Mount Hebron senior twins Divya and Deepa Chandran defeated Wilde Lake's Jackie Taubman and Lizzie Richmond, 6-2, 7-6, in a rematch of last week's county final won by the Wildecats.

For many of us born after 1950, Hilary Rodham Clinton is the first thoroughly modern first lady. That speaks volumes about the importance of Russell Freedman's latest book, "Eleanor Roosevelt: A Life of Discovery," (Clarion, $17.95, 198 pages, ages 9 and up).On the occasion of Women's History Month, I strained my brain to recall what I had learned of Mrs. Roosevelt during the course of my schooling. There were vague memories -- something about her being a rich, distant cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and about how she was his helpmate after he was stricken with polio.

No. 11 Chesapeake-AA scored five runs in the bottom of the first and never looked back in Tuesday's Class 4A state semifinal at the University of Maryland's Shipley Field, rolling to a 9-1 victory over Urbana. The Cougars (18-7) were led by senior shortstop Michael Marsh, who added insurance runs with two-run homers in the fourth and sixth innings. Junior pitcher Jason Seitler was dominant again, allowing just three hits in a complete-game effort for Chesapeake. The right-handed ace has anchored the Cougars' pitching staff all season.

- For the past couple of seasons, the Old Mill boys basketball team has been used to the highs and lows that come in the 32 minutes of each game. The No. 7 Patriots make the most of their runs and calmly weather their opponents' streaks. In the end, they usually find a way to win. Thursday night's Class 4A state semifinal game against Urbana was no exception for the Patriots, whose reward is a trip to the program's first state championship game. After seeing a 20-point third-quarter advantage drop to two points early in the fourth, the Patriots regrouped with poise and resilience to earn a 73-64 win at Comcast Center.