Frederick Rasmussen

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Contributing Writer at Baltimore Fishbowl

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Two Mildreds of Baltimore

4 days ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

The two Mildreds — Mildred Natwick and Mildred Dunnock — who were both born and raised in Baltimore, later went onto successful and memorable Broadway, Hollywood and TV careers.
The Man Behind The Jack Turnbull Award

1 week ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

For lacrosse aficionados, the 2025 NCAA Division 1 men’s lacrosse championship and final was played Monday at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, and the winner of the prestigious Jack Turnbull Award for the top collegiate attackman for 2025 will soon be announced. Lacrosse historians who have described Turnbull, a Hopkins and an Olympic phenom, as the “greatest attackman ever to play lacrosse” and the “Babe Ruth of lacrosse,” was only 34 when he was killed during World War II.
Preakness commentator brought 'color' to Triple Crown

3 weeks ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

If you watched the Triple Crown Races of the 1960s and 1970s on CBS or ABC, you looked forward to the witty incisive commentary of raconteur-broadcaster Heywood Hale “Woodie” Broun, who also during those years covered baseball and golf with the same elan.
It's official, today is Straw Hat Day! What?

3 weeks ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

The Orioles are busy in TV ads promoting their straw hat giveaway on June 15 at Camden Yards, but the real Straw Hat Day for the sartorially-clued in know that the official Straw Hat Day is actually May 15. They religiously observe that day when felt hats, fedoras and tweed caps are tossed into the dark recesses of a hall closet for a summer slumber, and are only extracted on a rainy day.
Baltimore's Mother's Garden is a place of maternal remembrance

4 weeks ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

There are certain holidays and the one you never want to miss is Mother’s Day, which is always observed on the second Sunday in May. So, order those flowers, make dinner reservations, select a piece of jewelry and plan to wear a white carnation, which is the official Mother’s Day flower. A sign on a York Road liquor store last year said it all: “Don’t forget Mom on Mother’s Day.
Former Sun editor witnessed German surrender at Reims in WWII

1 month ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

Price Day, who was editor-in-chief of The Baltimore Sun, Evening Sun and Sunday Sun, was a modest and unassuming man. He always dressed in carefully pressed gray flannels which he wore with a blue Oxford cloth button-down shirt and a tie that was perpetually set at half-mast, an open vest or sweater, and penny loafers. A shock of unruly hair, boylike, vied for real estate over his right eyebrow.
An Iconic Image That Forever Changed The World

1 month ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

Fifty-five years ago, John P. Filo, a Kent State University journalism student and photographer, took a picture that jettisoned him into a lifetime of perpetual fame as an eyewitness with his camera to one of the most tragic moments in 20th century American history.
Meet the man who cares for a nearly 400-year-old Ruxton tree

1 month ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

One of Maryland’s oldest citizens may just be a roadside tree in Ruxton— a majestic white oak (Quercus alba) — that has stood sentinel for nearly four centuries alongside what is now Bellona Avenue. Earlier this month, my Fishbowl colleague Dan Rodricks wrote a touching eulogy to a Mount Vernon Place landmark — the last standing elm that had resided there since 1922 — and collapsed last year during a rainstorm. “Most of us take them for granted, or only notice them when they’re gone,” he wrote.
Tuna and salmon can steer clear of this writer's Good Friday plate

1 month ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

Growing up in the 1950s in New Jersey in a family ruled by the Episcopal Church and the dictums of the Archbishop of Canterbury, certainly had its ups and downs, especially for me. Even though we weren’t Catholic, my father said we had to eat seafood every Friday, like our Catholic friends. That’s why I hated Fridays in those years. And he always hit his stride on Holy Thursdays with his stock public announcement.
Baltimore native Lucy Polk Carter survived Titanic sinking but not marriage

1 month ago | baltimorefishbowl.com | Frederick Rasmussen

Lucy Polk Carter, the Baltimore-born beauty who was acclaimed for her “hourglass figure and Gibson Girl hair” by society editors, entered into a Titanic lifeboat and into history as a participant in one of history’s most horrific maritime disasters.