Hirschfeld

Mildred M. "Mickey" Hirschfeld, a former naval intelligence officer and a homemaker, died June 9 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda of complications from an infection. The longtime Ocean Pines resident was 89. Mildred Myrick was born and raised in Norfolk, Va., and earned a bachelor's degree in 1935 from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. In the late 1930s and 1940s, she taught in high schools in Virginia and New Carrollton. She enlisted in the Navy in 1943, serving as a naval intelligence officer in the states and in the Pacific during World War II. She held the rank of lieutenant at her discharge in 1952 - the year she married Henry G. Hirschfeld, a career naval officer.

Mildred M. "Mickey" Hirschfeld, a former naval intelligence officer and a homemaker, died June 9 at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda of complications from an infection. The longtime Ocean Pines resident was 89. Mildred Myrick was born and raised in Norfolk, Va., and earned a bachelor's degree in 1935 from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. In the late 1930s and 1940s, she taught in high schools in Virginia and New Carrollton. She enlisted in the Navy in 1943, serving as a naval intelligence officer in the states and in the Pacific during World War II. She held the rank of lieutenant at her discharge in 1952 - the year she married Henry G. Hirschfeld, a career naval officer.

Keyed to Black History Month - and just in time for Valentine's Day - is Hirschfeld's Harlem (Glenn Young Books, 128 pages, $75), a beautiful valentine to African-American artists of Harlem and beyond. The large, lush volume - with 30 color plates and 90 black and whites - is a greatly expanded reissue of a 1941 collection of illustrations by the great show-business artist Al Hirschfeld, who died in January 2003 at age 99. Curated by the artist's widow, Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, the book includes an introduction written by the artist shortly before his death.

Keyed to Black History Month - and just in time for Valentine's Day - is Hirschfeld's Harlem (Glenn Young Books, 128 pages, $75), a beautiful valentine to African-American artists of Harlem and beyond. The large, lush volume - with 30 color plates and 90 black and whites - is a greatly expanded reissue of a 1941 collection of illustrations by the great show-business artist Al Hirschfeld, who died in January 2003 at age 99. Curated by the artist's widow, Louise Kerz Hirschfeld, the book includes an introduction written by the artist shortly before his death.

Dr. John HirschfeldLung specialistDr. John H. Hirschfeld, whose interest in lung disease led him to work with alcoholics in Baltimore, died yesterday of cancer at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 81.Dr. Hirschfeld lived in Pompano Beach, Fla., in the winter and Pikesville in the summer. He retired in 1981 after being in private practice in Northeast Baltimore since 1945. For four years before that, he was on the staff of the Victor Cullen State Hospital in Sabillasville.When he started his private practice, he was also an instructor in laryngology at the University of Maryland.

NEW YORK -- Rupert Murdoch may be running the New York Post by Monday morning, thanks to a conference-call putsch that all but ousted publisher Abe Hirschfeld yesterday.The international media mogul will ask Federal Bankruptcy Court for permission to operate the paper for 60 to 90 days.lTC Once assured that government regulations will not prohibit his owning both the Post and WNYW-TV in New York City, Mr. Murdoch is expected to repurchase the paper he owned from 1976 to 1988."We won what we think is a very important, major, but not complete victory in terms of trying to save the newspaper," said Post editor Pete Hamill, who has been battling Mr. Hirschfeld since the real estate developer took over the paper two weeks ago.Bankruptcy Judge Francis Conrad ordered Steven Bumbaca, the Post's controller, to immediately take over from Mr. Hirschfeld responsibility for authorizing checks and paying bills.

NEW YORK -- The New York Post, which was supposed to be sold to real estate developer Abraham Hirschfeld last Friday, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday.Attorneys for Peter Kalikow, the paper's current owner, who is involved in personal bankruptcy proceedings, said the newspaper took the action, with Mr. Hirschfeld's consent, to prevent spurned bidder Steven Hoffenberg from interfering with the paper's operations.The 192-year-old newspaper, founded by Alexander Hamilton, didn't publish yesterday because of a near-revolt by its staff, prompted by Sunday's announcement that Mr. Hirschfeld planned to fire 272 workers.

IT'S a nasty sight, the carrion crows descending to feed upon the entrails of what was once a vigorous newspaper. And it's hard to imagine, after this evisceration, that the New York Post can be brought back to anything resembling journalistic life.There's a dishonor roll attached to this sad event that's worth looking at. It reads: Murdoch, Kalikow, Hoffenberg, Hirschfeld -- the names of the money men who in less than 20 years stripped the nearly two-century-old paper of its self-respect.

Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Partners Inc., a Timonium start-up, announced yesterday that it had completed the acquisition of Covenant Care Corp., which operates eight assisted-living facilities in Western Pennsylvania.Terms were not disclosed.This is the first step toward making Mid-Atlantic "a leading regional provider" of assisted living, skilled nursing and related services, said Daniel A. Hirschfeld, president and chief executive officer.The company was formed last year by Hirschfeld and David Yungmann, each of whom have worked for several long-term care providers.

WASHINGTON -- Abe Hirschfeld, the New York City parking garage magnate who tried to ride to the rescue in ending Paula Corbin Jones' lawsuit against President Clinton, said yesterday that he was withdrawing his offer to pay Jones $1 million to settle the case.He said his efforts were over, finished, off the table and not to be renewed.Hirschfeld blamed feuding among Jones' lawyers about how to apportion the money for his decision to rescind the offer.The real estate tycoon has his own legal problems.

THIS WEEK marks the 70th anniversary of the repeal of Prohibition, so to celebrate I recently mixed up a batch of speakeasy cocktails. The recipes for concoctions called Horse's Neck, Flu Cocktail and Rock and Rye came from Manhattan Oases, a book originally published in 1932 that was written and illustrated by Al Hirschfeld, the noted theatrical caricaturist who died in January at the age of 99. As a young man about town, Hirschfeld toured dozens of...

AL HIRSCHFELD knew Baltimore - and loved it. The feeling was mutual. Mr. Hirschfeld, the legendary theatrical caricaturist and chronicler who died Monday at 99, came to Baltimore for decades to see pre-Broadway tryouts. He would sit in the darkened theater and sketch on 8-by-10-inch notebooks, then return to his Upper East Side townhouse in New York and turn his "hieroglyphics" into the astonishing, lithe and sparkling drawings that captured not only the personalities of the performers but the spirit of the shows.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg got quite the Baltimore send-off at a gala last weekend as he ended his six-year term as Johns Hopkins University's chairman of the board. About 800 well-wishers gathered in the new O'Connor Recreation Center on the Homewood campus for the big event. There were all sorts of honors, including a drawing of Mike (as he's called on campus) by famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. According to Hopkins' Dennis O'Shea, pres Bill Brody presented the picture to Mike by telling how the university had sent Hirschfeld lots of photos of Mike.

Continuing its strategy of building a strong foothold region by region, Towson-based Hallmark Senior Communities LLC said yesterday that it has acquired five more assisted-living facilities, bringing its total to 15 and increasing its capacity by 57 percent.Two of the newly acquired facilities are in Hazelton, Pa.; one is in Altoona, Pa.; one is in Lebanon County, Pa.; and the fifth is in central New Jersey.The acquisitions, which together cost $22 million, bring the company's holdings to 14 facilities in Pennsylvania and one in New Jersey with a residential capacity of 1,760 and boost the privately held company's annual revenue to $19 million, said Daniel A. Hirschfeld, chairman, chief executive and president.

WASHINGTON -- Ending one of America's most famous and damaging lawsuits, President Clinton agreed yesterday to pay Paula Corbin Jones $850,000 to withdraw her sexual misconduct case. The president made no apology and admitted nothing.By settling the case that had led to the Monica Lewinsky sex scandal, Clinton put a stop to a legal challenge that threatened to run on for months and might have gone to trial in a flood of more negative publicity.Jones stands to receive some money -- after her lawyers take an undetermined share -- from a lawsuit that had been dismissed and whose long-term prospects were doubtful, even if it had been revived on appeal and gone to trial.

WASHINGTON -- Abe Hirschfeld, the New York City parking garage magnate who tried to ride to the rescue in ending Paula Corbin Jones' lawsuit against President Clinton, said yesterday that he was withdrawing his offer to pay Jones $1 million to settle the case.He said his efforts were over, finished, off the table and not to be renewed.Hirschfeld blamed feuding among Jones' lawyers about how to apportion the money for his decision to rescind the offer.The real estate tycoon has his own legal problems.

NEW YORK -- By yesterday, editors and reporters at the New York Post were in full-scale revolt."We've got control of the newsroom," said a reporter, Don Broderick. "Now all we need is control of the courtroom."Abandoned by the paper's new would-be owner, the staff of the nation's oldest daily newspaper showed up for work without pay yesterday, while its deposed editor marched past security guards to head the jubilant newsroom. Staffers ignored their new boss -- who had no intention of publishing -- and carried on putting out New York's grittiest, grimiest newspaper.

New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg got quite the Baltimore send-off at a gala last weekend as he ended his six-year term as Johns Hopkins University's chairman of the board. About 800 well-wishers gathered in the new O'Connor Recreation Center on the Homewood campus for the big event. There were all sorts of honors, including a drawing of Mike (as he's called on campus) by famed caricaturist Al Hirschfeld. According to Hopkins' Dennis O'Shea, pres Bill Brody presented the picture to Mike by telling how the university had sent Hirschfeld lots of photos of Mike.

Mid-Atlantic Healthcare Partners Inc., a Timonium start-up, announced yesterday that it had completed the acquisition of Covenant Care Corp., which operates eight assisted-living facilities in Western Pennsylvania.Terms were not disclosed.This is the first step toward making Mid-Atlantic "a leading regional provider" of assisted living, skilled nursing and related services, said Daniel A. Hirschfeld, president and chief executive officer.The company was formed last year by Hirschfeld and David Yungmann, each of whom have worked for several long-term care providers.

Dr. John HirschfeldLung specialistDr. John H. Hirschfeld, whose interest in lung disease led him to work with alcoholics in Baltimore, died yesterday of cancer at a hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 81.Dr. Hirschfeld lived in Pompano Beach, Fla., in the winter and Pikesville in the summer. He retired in 1981 after being in private practice in Northeast Baltimore since 1945. For four years before that, he was on the staff of the Victor Cullen State Hospital in Sabillasville.When he started his private practice, he was also an instructor in laryngology at the University of Maryland.