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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | December 5, 2011
Doris C. Margulis, a Baltimore actress who during the 1960s and early 1970s trained Special Forces troops in interrogation at the Army's old Fort Holabird in Dundalk, died Nov. 27 of cancer at the North Oaks retirement community in Pikesville. The former Mount Washington resident was 95. The daughter of a cigar maker and a homemaker who later owned a grocery store, Doris Crane was born in Baltimore and raised on Smallwood Street. After graduating from Western High School in 1932, she went to work as a stenographer and typist for Baltimore Gas & Electric Co. and later for several lawyers.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun | May 25, 2011
Thomas Townsend "Townie" Hoen, who was the last president of the noted Baltimore lithographic firm of A. Hoen & Co. and inventor of the Plimpton Ball, died Saturday of lung cancer at his Owings Mills home. He was 76. The son of a neurosurgeon and a homemaker, Mr. Hoen was born in Montreal, Quebec, and raised in Cedarhurst, N.Y. After graduating in 1952 from Kent School in Kent, Conn., he attended Le Rosey in Rolle, Switzerland, for a year. He was a 1957 graduate of Middlebury College and served in Army intelligence at Fort Holabird and in Rochester, N.Y. He settled in Baltimore in 1960 and went to work for A. Hoen & Co., which had been founded in Baltimore in 1835, becoming its president six years later.
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By Frederick N. Rasmussen, The Baltimore Sun and Baltimore Sun reporter | April 15, 2011
Theodore M. "Ted" Abrams, a retired advertising executive, died April 7 of pneumonia at St. Joseph Medical Center. The Timonium resident was 78. The son of a vaudeville actor and a homemaker, Mr. Abrams was born and raised in New York City, where he was a 1950 graduate of Cardinal Hayes High School in the Bronx. He enlisted in the Army Intelligence Corps and served as a clerk/typist at the old Fort Holabird in Baltimore. After being discharged in 1954, he remained in Baltimore and went to work the next year as a beer salesman for the old American Brewery.
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By Jacques Kelly, The Baltimore Sun | June 4, 2010
There are no cobwebs in the grand attic of Maryland history housed at the Central Enoch Pratt Free Library. Jeff Korman, its manager, has the answers to obscure points of local fact based upon a well-organized, rich and deep inventory of newspaper clips, old photos and printed materials. He has created an informal talk, "Life in Maryland during World War II," which he'll be giving next week at the Village Learning Place in Charles Village. He is bringing some portable treasures from his collections, wartime food ration books and photos of Liberty ships at Fairfield.
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By Michael Sragow and Michael Sragow,michael.sragow@baltsun.com | November 1, 2009
The makers of "The Men Who Stare At Goats" have planted this epigraph before the movie: "More of this is true than you would believe." But I heard one young man emerging from a preview saying, "I don't think any of this is true." After all, who in their right mind would buy a story about a visionary Army officer embracing Eastern martial arts and West Coast encounter sessions, then recruiting new American fighting men who would "fall in love with everyone," "sense plant auras," "attain the power to pass through objects such as walls," "have out-of-body experiences" and "be able to hear and see other people's thoughts"?