Saul

On August 3, 2003, SAUL M. BAKER, loving husband of Wendy L. Baker (nee Liebman); loving son of Albert and the late Harriet Baker; beloved brother of Jay Baker of Rockville, MD, Howard Baker of Silver Spring, MD and Gina Baker of South Carolina. Services at Sol Levinson and Bros. Inc. 8900 Reisterstown Road at Mt. Wilson Lane on Tuesday, August 5, at 11 A.M. Interment service private. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made in his memory to the Brian Zikmud-Fisher Foundation HLA Registry Foundation 70 Grand Ave. Suite 103 River Edge, NJ 07661-1900 or The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center 1100 Fairview Ave. NJ 5-200 P.O. Box 19024 Seattle, WA 98109-1024.

Steven B. Larsen, who as Maryland's insurance commissioner blocked CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield's attempt to convert to for-profit operation and sell itself to a California-based company, said yesterday that he will join the Baltimore office of the law firm Saul Ewing LLP. Though he is likely to be best remembered for the 200-page report in which he blistered CareFirst's board and executives, Larsen said yesterday that he is proudest of bringing a...

Saul Steven Kushner, a retired Westinghouse Electric Corp. acoustics expert and longtime Severn resident, died of heart failure Sunday at North Arundel Hospital. He was 79. Born and raised in Utica, N.Y., Mr. Kushner served as an electronics technician in the Navy aboard the USS Yokes, a destroyer escort, in the Pacific during World War II. After being injured in a shipboard accident, he was discharged from the Navy and enrolled at the University of Michigan, where he earned a bachelor's degree in chemistry.

As a young soldier in World War II, Jeff Shields of the South Florida Sun-Sentinel writes, Saul Shechter marched across Italy's Po Valley, dodging death in the face of German howitzers and Italian rifles, and came out unscathed. That was long ago - long before he encountered the devastating artillery of Billy the Marlin. It took six more decades and the Florida Marlins mascot to fell Shechter, who was knocked out July 20 by, of all things, a flying T-shirt. On Jan. 22, Shechter sued the Marlins and Pro Player Stadium, claiming that a souvenir shirt, wadded into a cylinder and launched by team mascot Billy into the cheap seats using a "bazooka-like cannon," caused him a permanent loss of vision.

Saul Bellow, a towering figure of American literature, has, at 84, produced a new novel. It is vibrant with life, joy, love -- and abrim with wisdom. If proof were needed that great craft need not ebb with age, and that a brilliant mind and courageous heart need never cease growing, here it is: "Ravelstein" (Penguin Putnam Inc., 233 pages, $24.95). The book is concise and the story quite simple. It centers on Abe Ravelstein, a distinguished, controversial scholar of political philosophy.

Unable to be build on an early gift goal, top-ranked John Carroll had to settle on a 1-1 draw with No. 6-ranked St. Mary's in Annapolis yesterday.Kerie Sample's direct kick from just outside the penalty area in the first minute of the second half evened the score for the home-team Saints, who got a strong effort from a makeshift defense in the two 10-minute overtime periods to maintain the tie.The Patriots are 8-1-1 overall and 3-0-1 in the Interscholastic Athletic...

Weinberg & Green LLC, an 80-year-old Baltimore business law firm that shrank from about 150 lawyers in the early 1990s to fewer than 70 amid a shrinking legal market, said yesterday that it will merge with Philadelphia-based Saul, Ewing, Remick & Saul LLP.Charles O. Monk II, managing general member of Weinberg & Green, said the combination with a firm more than twice its size will create a premier mid-Atlantic region firm with 222 lawyers and clients from...

The Queen of England and Michael Jordan collected his pieces, but so did a hairdresser I know. Diana Ross has a Saul Farber original in a house somewhere, but so do a lot of ordinary Baltimoreans who got them or gave them as gifts. Saul Farber created some beautiful things out of glass. He could please either a celebrity scouting a gallery for an objet d'art or a frantic guy looking for a reasonably priced anniversary gift on his way home from work. From jewelry boxes of beveled glass to large stained-glass installations, Saul Farber's legacy is scattered across continents and social classes.

"Karoo," by Steve Tesich. Harcourt Brace. 432 pages. $24.The title character of Steve Tesich's farewell novel "Karoo" is afflicted with what he calls drunk disease. But to rework an old gag, getting drunk is not Saul Karoo's problem. Not getting drunk is.For most of his life, Karoo has used alcohol, cigarettes, adulterous affairs and general irresponsibility to define himself. "That crazy Karoo." Like others in his profession, Saul Karoo has been nicknamed Doc, but he's no healer, he's a hack, a rewriter of movie scripts that producers have bought but don't like.

A headline and article in Thursday's edition of The Sun for Carroll County incorrectly stated fund-raising plans for the local chapter of United Way. Volunteers at the agency hope to raise $303,000 from workers, businesses and agencies throughout the county, only a portion of which could come from county government employees.The Sun regrets the error.Local volunteers in the 1997 United Way campaign have set a goal to raise 15 percent more this year by collecting $303,000 from Carroll County government employees.