Molly

With victory secured, Molly Speicher reacted naturally enough, savoring the win and making sure everybody in the house knew about it. That it was a game of table tennis played in the family's rec room a couple of weekends ago didn't matter. When her older brother, Pat, sent his last shot a couple of inches long of the table, Molly was one up on him in a hard-fought, 23-21 overtime win. "I will never let him forget that one," said a smiling Molly, who acknowledges losing about four of every five games they play.

Mary Windsor "Molly" Harris, a Calvert School second-grader who enjoyed ballet and spending time at the beach, died of pneumonia Sunday at Sinai Hospital. The 8-year-old Ruxton resident developed breathing problems after contracting what appeared to be a cold, her family said. Born in Denver, Molly was an infant when her family moved to Ruxton in 1999. "I've known Molly since kindergarten. She was an amazing child with a huge heart. Her contagious smile could brighten the gloomiest of days.

"We'll Meet Again," by Mary Higgins Clark. Simon & Schuster. 314 pages. $25.Fans of Mary Higgins Clark's novels will be disappointed by her latest. "We'll Meet Again" isn't worth meeting the first time.The story is about the murder of Gary Lasch, a Connecticut physician and head of an HMO. Police find his wife Molly covered with blood, but she doesn't know how she got that way and has no memory of the events of the murder night.Molly goes to jail for the murder. When she is released five and a half years later, she remembers that someone else was in the house that night.

Today's math problem:Molly's having a sleepover for her 13th birthday. Molly's 2 parents say, "No greater than 6 guests!" Molly's friends equal 12 best buds. What is the sum of her friends who are less than happy when some learn that a party was held, minus them?Numbers crunch: Guest lists are often tricky. "You just can't possibly include everybody all the time," says Riva Nathan, a Chicago party planner who handles about 70 kid parties a year. Nathan reminds them that the fewer kids they have the more things they can do with the kids who are there.

Molly Picon, a beloved American actress who died in 1992 at age 94, liked to tell a story about breaking into show business at the age of 5 in Philadelphia.After singing and dancing for streetcar passengers, she passed the hat and collected $2. Later the same day, she got $8 for her first vaudeville performance.Molly's mother was happy; after all, Philadelphia had three theaters. Molly's grandmother disagreed. Book her into streetcars, she said, there are more of those.Picon, an actress who made her early fame in Yiddish theater, first in New York and later on stages in Baltimore and elsewhere, will be honored Sunday at a gathering marking the 100th anniversary of her birth.

There's about 64 minutes of slam-bang comedy, hot, fresh, snappy and just the way you like it, lost in the great sluggish tide that is the almost endless "That Old Feeling." That old feeling is fatigue.Yet this is one of those curious films far more interesting for what it says than for what it is. What it is is mediocre comedy. What it says is, Let the spirit of Dionysian fury liberate you. Escape the tyranny of evil white Republicans. Hooray for our team!Bette Midler -- in fine form -- and Dennis Farina -- gray-haired guy, very macho, usually plays cops and was a cop -- are a long-divorced couple.

"How can a man who's been a workaholic for the 20 years we've been married suddenly give it all up?" wonders Molly, 40, who met Jim when he was an Army recruit at the base where she was working in the PX. "Our life was wonderful," she recalls, "but clearly I missed some signals."After they married, Jim began his own collection agency, with a financial boost from Molly's father. Working only with a secretary, he created a flourishing enterprise. Molly gave birth to a son and a daughter and, for the next 15 years, immersed herself in motherhood and community affairs.

Lesa West heard tiny cries that New Year's afternoon in the delivery room. Her daughter, Molly, had just been born. Three months premature, the infant could be held in one hand. Her chance of survival: 1 percent.Simultaneously, doctors scrambled to stop contractions that threatened to force Molly's twin from his mother's womb.Mrs. West was less than six months pregnant, and delaying birth by even a day would give the remaining twin much better odds.The Elkridge parents felt numb, drained by weeks of hoping, crying and worrying.

Washington.--In 1990, my daughter, Molly, was almost two years old when we discovered that the roll in her gait was the result of a serious hip problem. She was among a tiny faction of children with a condition called hip dysplasia.In a normal hip, the head of the upper bone of the leg fits into a socket of the pelvis, giving the hip strength and mobility. In Molly's right hip, the socket in her pelvis wasn't fully shaped. The upper leg bone was deformed and dislocated. If Molly's problem wasn't fixed, her limp would become progressively worse.

Start with a likable, down-to-earth princess who never has to clean her room, even though it drives her uptight parents up the wall.Mix in a younger sibling -- a pompous prince who says things like, "Too bad she's not tidy and perfect like me."Top it off with a plot twist that gives the parents and prince their comeuppance, and you've got a fetching formula for a story.It's called "Tumble Tower," the first children's book by novelist Anne Tyler of Baltimore. It is illustrated by Mitra Modarressi, Ms. Tyler's 25-year-old daughter, who has said that "Tumble Tower" will be her mother's only children's book.

Two unscripted dramas starring Shattucks unfolded in sync this week. Molly Shattuck was on Secret Millionaire just hours after Mayo Shattuck took Warren Buffett to Divorce Court. Life is full of strange coincidences, but none stranger than this: On the same day that the Constellation Energy CEO broke it off with a billionaire, his wife was on national TV bonding with the poor. Even the stars of these separate dramas were surprised by the convergence that made for an All in the Family teaser for Fox 45's 10 p.m. news.

Molly Jotkowitz, 91, formerly of Springfield, MA. passed away on September 28, 2007 in Thousand Oaks, CA. Born in Hartford, Conn. She was married to the late Max Z. Jotkowitz for 44 years. She is survived by her son Edward Jotkowitz, a daughter Janice Perlman and her husband Hazzan Emanuel, Rosalie Fromberg, six grandchildren Joseph Jotkowitz and wife Marcy, Amy Scop and husband Mark, Steven Perlman and wife Allison, Michael Jotkowitz, Benjamin Perlman and Marc Perlman and four great grandchildren.

Mary Windsor "Molly" Harris, a Calvert School second-grader who enjoyed ballet and spending time at the beach, died of pneumonia Sunday at Sinai Hospital. The 8-year-old Ruxton resident developed breathing problems after contracting what appeared to be a cold, her family said. Born in Denver, Molly was an infant when her family moved to Ruxton in 1999. "I've known Molly since kindergarten. She was an amazing child with a huge heart. Her contagious smile could brighten the gloomiest of days.

With victory secured, Molly Speicher reacted naturally enough, savoring the win and making sure everybody in the house knew about it. That it was a game of table tennis played in the family's rec room a couple of weekends ago didn't matter. When her older brother, Pat, sent his last shot a couple of inches long of the table, Molly was one up on him in a hard-fought, 23-21 overtime win. "I will never let him forget that one," said a smiling Molly, who acknowledges losing about four of every five games they play.

One of Baltimore's biggest companies, Constellation Energy Group, could be gobbled up by a Florida utility. What's the most serious fallout for Charm City? Losing one of Baltimore's last Fortune 500 companies? Bummer, but we'd get over it. Losing thousands of jobs. Even bigger bummer. Losing Molly Shattuck as a Ravens cheerleader. Ugh! Perish the thought! I phoned Ms. Molly the other day as news of the merger was spreading to ask what it meant for her cheerleading career. If CEO-hubby Mayo had to look for a new job, would she limit his search to NFL cities?

On February 8, 2005, MOLLY ROSENTAL (nee Rosental); died at age 88 and was a Holocaust survivor. Longtime life and best friend of Manny Rosental; beloved mother of Ziporah Spigel and Freda Hershkovitz, both of Baltimore, MD; devoted mother-in-law of Arie Spigel and Shlomo Hershkovitz; devoted sister of Chaim Rosental of Israel and the late Zev and Moshe Rosental; loving grandmother of Scott Federman, Lisa and Gary Weinapple, Halaina Hershkovitz and fiance'...

On Sunday, January 2, 2005, MOLLY CAITLIN COUNIHAN, age 24, of Elkridge, MD, passed away at Holy Cross Hospital. She graduated from Watkins Mill High School in 1998, Montgomery College in 2002 and received a B.S. in Special Education from Towson University at the Universities at Shady Grove in 2004. She began teaching Special Education at Patuxent Valley Middle School in Howard County, MD in September 2004. Molly is survived by her daughter Tegan Lee Counihan (3); her mother Maxine Counihan of Urbana, MD; her father Gene Counihan of Montgomery Village, MD, and her sisters Jenny Couser, Rainey Stafford, Carrie Ratliff and Erin Counihan.

Who knew fun could be so exhausting? Just ask anyone who got into the swing of things at last week's Constellation Energy Classic. There was lots of golf to watch and play with members on the PGA Champions Tour. And there were a few good parties to enjoy -- and recover from -- as well, particularly Saturday's shindig thrown by Constellation Energy CEO Mayo Shattuck and his wife, Molly, at their Guilford digs. Molly said they decided to pay homage to golf's origins by having a wee bit of a Scottish theme.

The autumn after Stephen Shock's premature death in January 2002, his widow and his mother resumed their Tuesday morning routine of reading to a class of kindergartners at Halstead Academy, in Baltimore County's Hillendale neighborhood. As only bubbly 5-year-olds could, those 26 children gave Molly and Betty Shock an escape from their grief and helped them begin to heal. "That class was so full of joy," said Molly Shock, Stephen's widow. "Many times in my week, that was the most joy I had."

On September 23, 2003, MOLLY MILDRED LEWISOn Tuesday, friends may call at VAUGHN C. GREENE Funeral Services, 4905 York Road, from 4:00 to 8:00 P.M. On Wednesday, Mrs. Lewis will lie instate at Church of The Redeemed, 4321 Old York Road, where the family will receive friends from 10:00 to 10:30 A.M., with services to follow. Inquiries to 410-433-7500.