Friendship

Never mix friendship and money. Stanford Rothschild did, in large quantities. He ended up losing both, according to a lawsuit filed last week that virtually wails betrayal. The longtime Baltimore money manager became estranged from one of his best friends and his biggest customer — a tie torn apart by friction over Rothschild's wife and the defection by his own employees and accountant, alleges a civil complaint filed in Baltimore City Circuit Court. Bosom pal Manuel Dupkin worked behind the scenes to withdraw his fortune from Rothschild's firm and set up Rothschild employees in a new company that would manage the money, the complaint said.

City school officials said they will take extra security measures at a Southeast Baltimore charter school after five fires were set this week at the school, which also had an altercation that injured an administrator and a student arrest. Officials said they will increase the presence of school police officers and district staff at the Friendship Academy of Science and Technology Middle/High School, which they acknowledged has had "significant safety issues" this week. Among them were five trash-can fires - two Wednesday and three Thursday.

In starless, predawn darkness, I was driving on the Beltway last January, and I was stinking. I'd woken to find my Dickeyville home had no hot water - and no option but to take my friend Carolyn to her appointment, as I'd promised, without showering. For Carolyn and me, hassles like broken water heaters are reminders that she and I are widows. With one hand, we dial the repairmen and write the checks, and with the other grope for an absent hand. Two years earlier, Carolyn - tall, blond and almost catatonic with grief for her beloved Johnny - had sat beside me in our bereavement group.

On occasion, Orioles manager Buck Showalter will wax poetic about certain baseball subjects as if he were sitting on a country porch, telling stories and sipping lemonade. Thursday afternoon was one of those times - when Showalter was asked about managing this weekend against Los Angeles Dodgers skipper Don Mattingly, whom Showalter played with in the minors, managed in the majors and has remained close to over the years. "You know how people say friends are people that know all about you and still like you?

Behave, children. The principal at West Friendship Elementary School wields a paddle.That was the understanding children at the school had back in the 1950s, when the principal's job was also to check students for lice, and shave their heads if they were infested.Those are but a few of the discoveries third-graders at the school have culled from boxes of old papers, forgotten corners of warehouses and interviews with alumni this year. When the school year concludes, the children expect to have completed the first chronicle of their school's origins and 69-year history.

Lisa and Maria were used to spending hours at the after-work hangout sharing gossip, career dreams and griping about their love lives. But this evening Lisa looked extremely troubled."

A second person has died from injuries suffered in a collision in West Friendship June 19. A third person in the accident remained in serious condition yesterday.Sandra Lee Foster, 58, of New Windsor, was taken to the Maryland Shock Trauma Center after the accident at 4: 45 a.m. and died early Saturday.Foster, who was wearing a seat belt, was driving a car that was struck by a Nissan Sentra that crossed the center line on Route 32 north of Rosemary Lane, police said.The driver of the Nissan, Vijay Jose, 23, of Ellicott City, was declared dead at the scene.

Despite intense political opposition, one-time airline magnate Frank Lorenzo moved ahead yesterday with plans to operate a new discount carrier, now officially dubbed Friendship Airlines, possibly out of Baltimore-Washington International Airport by June.The decision to name the airline Friendship -- BWI's name until it was sold to the state in 1972 -- was "purely coincidental," according to company officials who said they were also considering Dulles International Airport in Northern Virginia.

A 41-year-old Friendship man died early yesterday when a pickup truck rear-ended his car as he was waiting at an intersection in the Calvert County town of Owings, authorities said. He was one of three people to die in morning traffic accidents on Maryland roads yesterday.The Calvert County Sheriff's Office said Raymond F. McCarthy of Friendship was killed when his car was struck on Solomons Island Road at Chesapeake Beach Road. The pickup driver was not injured.In Prince George's County, a 23-year-old Upper Marlboro man in a stolen car died after the car jumped a concrete barrier and struck another car in Seat Pleasant, county police said.

A Severn man died Wednesday of injuries he suffered when his sport utility vehicle slammed into a guardrail and careened into a delivery truck traveling the opposite direction on Route 32 in West Friendship, police said.Matthew Murray, 26, of the 5000 block of Telegraph Road was flown to Maryland Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, where he died about 5 p.m.Murray was driving his Ford Bronco north about 10 a.m. when he used the shoulder to pass another car, police said. He lost control, struck the guardrail and collided with the delivery truck just north of Parliament Place, police said.

Though you probably already know that Beyonce will headline the Super Bowl Halftime Show, the best thing about that is the midweek news conference, during which the sportswriters get to rub elbows with some of the biggest names in entertainment. That's kind of a mixed blessing when the NFL trots out a super group from the 1960s. I'm pretty sure the headquarters hotel for the Rolling Stones a few years ago was the Museum of Natural History. The best news conference ever was put on by Prince, who didn't take any questions.

Thundering herds of "My Little Pony" fans will be descending on Baltimore next August for the fifth BronyCon, a bi-annual convention of rabid fans of the cartoon TV series "My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. " Thousands of fans are expected to mass at the Baltimore Convention Center for the Aug. 2-4 event. Although targeted at a young, mostly female audience, the animated show has attracted a surprising number of young adult and teen fans - known as "bronies," short for "bro ponies.

Ken Niumatalolo noticed the Army guys looking askance as he wound his way through the Pentagon to attend a ceremony for his brother, an Army lieutenant colonel. "I think they recognized me," said the Navy football coach, chuckling. "And I don't think they were too happy to see me. " The Army-Navy football rivalry - set to be contested for the 113 t h time Saturday in Philadelphia - is felt from the halls of power in Washington to the waters and battlefields of the Middle East.

Wedding date: October 13, 2012 Her story: Angela Horner, 27, grew up in Severn. She lives in Baltimore's Pigtown and is licensing team manager at Laureate Education. Her father, Robert Horner, is a physicist in the electronics industry. Her mother, Gloria Horner, is a Hospice of the Chesapeake volunteer, and teaches English as a second language through her church, Severn Run Evangelical Presbyterian Church. His story: Chris Montgomery, 34, grew up in Pasadena. He lives in Baltimore's Pigtown and is a network administrator at Anne Arundel Community College.

Mount St. Joseph's football players took the field and warmed up for about 25 minutes last night at the Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex, but that's about all they did. Before the game could even get started, persistent thunderstorms rolled in, eventually cancelling the Gaels' game against Friendship Collegiate, from Washington, D.C., in the I-95 Kickoff Classic. Gaels coach Blake Henry said the teams waited for two hours, but his team finally headed home about 9:30.

IndyCar driver Tony Kanaan is sitting beside his best friend and teammate Rubens Barrichello. Together they are talking about the value of friendship and how important it is to separate competitiveness from what is most important in life. It is then Kanaan, the 2004 IndyCar Series champion, recalls a plane ride this season that occurred after he had finished ahead of Barrichello, in his first season of IndyCar racing after 19 years in Formula 1. "Eduardo, Rubens' oldest son, is sitting beside me on the plane," Kanaan, 37, said.

Bold, brave kids star in these books (rated on a scale of four stars):* The reissue of author Ray Bradbury's 1962 book "Something Wicked This Way Comes" (Avon paperback, $6) is great news for sci-fi fans. Bradbury, author of the classic "The Martian Chronicles," has long thrilled readers with his dark and eerie tales. In "Wicked," a strange carnival tests the friendship of Will and Jim. A cautious Will is suspicious of the carnival's too-dazzling delights. Jim, who's more reckless, wants to sample its temptations without thinking about the risks.

I've known Tom for so long that I can't remember when I first met him. But when I did, I'm sure it involved one of us getting smashed into a locker. Every lifelong friendship starts in its own way. It happened, I think, during our first week at St. Louis Country Day, where we were among the 67 squirming 11-year-old boys still trying to figure out how to tie our school neckties, not to mention which teachers gave you detention for getting it wrong. Eight years of such stuff, evidently, was the key to getting into colleges such as Harvard and Yale.

When Tanya Green was tapped to turn around the once-beleaguered Calverton Middle School in 2008, she paid close attention to not only what the staff in her school had to say about their barriers, but how they said it -- or sometimes what they failed to say at all. She noticed if they referred to students as, "these kids," or "the children. " She noticed whether they took responsibility for their students' failures, or transferred it on someone else. She took note of whether a teacher was as concerned about whether their students had lunch as they were about their test scores.

John D. Danko stops in mid-conversation to note the sound ringing through the house. The small brass bell chimes from behind the face of the grandfather clock in the foyer, perhaps the same sound people would have heard in their homes while waiting for word from the battlegrounds of the War of 1812. "Back in those days, this is what they heard," says Danko, after the clock has chimed nine times on the hour. Then there's only the tick-tick-tick of the seconds as two weights and a pendulum wrought in cast iron keep the time using technology that dates to the days of the Battle of North Point and Fort McHenry's defense of Baltimore harbor.