Friday, January 31, 2014

Theodore Millon, Developer of the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI)

Theodore Millon, a Student of Personality, Dies at 85

By BENEDICT CAREYJAN. 31, 2014

Theodore Millon’s work from the 1970s is still influential today.

Theodore Millon, a psychologist whose theories helped define how scientists think about personality and its disorders, and who developed a widely used measure to analyze character traits, died on Wednesday at his home in Greenville Township, N.Y. He was 85.

The cause was complications of heart disease, his granddaughter Alyssa Boice said.

Dr. Millon (pronounced “Milan,” like the city in Italy) learned about the oddities of personality at first hand, by wandering the halls of Allentown State Hospital, a mental institution, after being named to the hospital’s board in the 1950s as a part an overhaul effort in Pennsylvania. A young assistant professor at nearby Lehigh University at the time, he “frequently ventured incognito through the hospital,” he wrote in an essay in 2001, “at times clothed in typical hospital garb overnight or for entire weekend periods, conversing at length with patients housed in a variety of acute and chronic wards.”

At the University of Illinois in the 1970s, he began to think and write more deeply about the patterns underlying specific character types that therapists had described: the narcissist, with fragile, grandiose self-approval; the dependent, with smothering clinginess; the histrionic, always in the thick of some drama, desperate to be the center of attention. By 1980, he had pulled together the bulk of the work on such so-called personality disorders, most of it descriptive, and turned it into a set of 10 standardized types for the American Psychiatric Association’s third diagnostic manual.

Along the way he developed the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory (MCMI), which became the most commonly used diagnostic assessment for personality problems. It is still widely used today, in its third edition, the MCMI-III.

“He was a monumental figure in shaping the understanding of personality disorders,” said Thomas Widiger, a professor of psychology at the University of Kentucky. “Prior to Ted, there wasn’t any measure to speak of. He just dominated the field during a key period of its growth.”

Theodore Millon was born in Manhattan on Aug. 18, 1928, the only child of Abner Millon, a tailor, and the former Mollie Gorkowitz. He grew up in the Bensonhurst neighborhood of Brooklyn and graduated from Lafayette High School in 1945 before earning bachelor’s degrees in psychology, physics and philosophy at City College of New York. After graduating in 1950, he earned a Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut in 1953, the year after he married Renée Baratz. She survives him, as do three daughters, Diane Bobb, Dr. Carrie Millon and Adrienne Hemsley; a son, Andy; and eight grandchildren.

Loquacious and opinionated, Dr. Millon, who described himself as an exemplar of “secure narcissism,” became a kind of institution unto himself after laying a foundation for the study of personality disorders. He left the University of Illinois for the Coral Gables campus of the University of Miami, where — between visiting professorships at Harvard and McLean Hospital — he founded the Institute for Advanced Studies in Personology and Psychopathology, a platform to advance his ideas, publishing analyses, books and various personality assessments.

Dr. Millon wrote more than 25 books and co-wrote more than 50 academic papers. The American Psychological Association awarded him its Gold Medal Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2008.

In one of his books, an encyclopedia of behavioral scientists called “Masters of the Mind” (2004), he included an entry for “Theodore Millon (1928 — ).” Dr. Millon, he wrote of himself, was distinguished from many others in the book “by the fact that he appears, contrawise, to be invariably buoyant, if not jovial. Critics are not invariably enamored, however, finding his work to be, at times, too speculative, his writing unduly imaginative, and his creativity overly expansive.”

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Theodore Millon (18 August 1928 - 29 January 2014) was an American psychologist known for his work on personality disorders.

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Biography[edit]

Millon was born in 1928, the only child of immigrant Jewish parents from Lithuania and Poland.^[1] His 19th-century ancestors came from the town of Valozhyn, then a part of the Russian Empire.^[2]^:309 Receiving degrees from both American and European universities, he was a member of the board of trustees of Allentown State Hospital, a large Pennsylvania psychiatric hospital for 15 years.^[3] Shortly thereafter he became the founding editor of the Journal of Personality Disorders and the inaugural president of the International Society for the Study of Personality Disorders. He is Professor Emeritus at Harvard Medical School and the University of Miami.^[4]
In 2008, Millon was awarded the Gold Medal Award For Life Achievement in the Application of Psychology by the American Psychological Association.^[5]
The American Psychological Foundation presents an award named after Millon, known as the "Theodore Millon Award in Personality Psychology," to honor outstanding psychologists engaged in "advancing the science of personality psychology including the areas of personology, personality theory, personality disorders, and personality measurement."^[6]

Theoretical work[edit]

Millon has written numerous popular works on personality, developed diagnostic questionnaire tools such as the Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory, and contributed to the development of earlier versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.
Among other diagnoses, Millon advocated for an expanded version of passive aggressive personality disorder, which he termed 'negativistic' personality disorder and argued could be diagnosed by criteria such as "expresses envy and resentment toward those apparently more fortunate" and "claims to be luckless, ill-starred, and jinxed in life; personal content is more a matter of whining and grumbling than of feeling forlorn and despairing" (APA, 1991, R17). Passive-Aggressive Personality Disorder was expanded somewhat as an official diagnosis in the DSM-III-R but then relegated to the appendix of DSM-IV, tentatively renamed 'Passive-Aggressive (Negativistic) Personality Disorder'.^[7]

Millon's personality disorder subtypes[edit]

Millon devised a set of widely acknowledged subtypes for each of the DSM personality disorders:^[8]^[9]

Books[edit]

Millon, Theodore (with Roger D. Davis) (1996) Disorders of Personality: DSM IV and Beyond 2nd ed. New York: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-01186-X
Millon, Theodore (2000). Personality Disorders in Modern Life. New York: John Wiley and Sons. ISBN 0-471-23734-5
Millon, Theodore. (2004) Masters of the Mind. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Millon, Theodore and Grossman, Seth.(2007) Moderating Severe Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Millon, Theodore and Grossman, Seth.(2007) Resolving Difficult Clinical Syndromes: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Millon, Theodore and Grossman, Seth.(2007) Overcoming Resistant Personality Disorders: A Personalized Psychotherapy Approach. Hoboken: John Wiley and Sons.
Blaney, Paul H. and Millon, Theodore (Eds). (2008) Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology, 2nd Ed.. New York: Oxford University Press.
Millon, Theodore, Krueger, Robert and Simonsen, Erik (Eds). (2008). Contemporary Directions in Psychopathology: Toward the DSM-V and ICD-11. New York: Guilford Press.
The Millon inventories: a practitioner's guide to personalized clinical assessment. (2008) Guilford Press. ISBN 978-1-59385-674-8

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Ibn 'Aqil, Islamic theologian

Ibn ‘Aqil, Abu‘l-Wafa‘
Ibn ‘Aqil, Abu‘l-Wafa‘ (Abu‘l-Wafa‘ ibn ‘Aqil) (Abu al-Wafa Ali Ibn Aqil ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi)(1040-1119).Hanbali jurist and theologian of Baghdad.Because of his interest in Mu‘tazila, he was forced into exile in another quarter of the city.In 1072, he publicly retracted his writings in favor of al-Hallaj and of certain Mu‘tazili doctrines.

Ibn 'Aqil was an Islamic theologian from Baghdad, Iraq. Trained in the tenets of the Hanbali school (madhab), the most traditional school of Islamic law, he outraged his teachers by striving to incorporate liberal theological ideas into the tradition. He sought to use reason and logical inquiry to interpret religion, and was influenced by the teachings of the mystic, and universally respected and accepted saint of Islam, al-Hallaj (d. 922). In 1066 he was appointed professor at the mosque of al-Mansur in Baghdad, but persecution by conservative theologians soon led to his retirement, and in 1072 he was forced to retract his beliefs publicly, due to a threat on his life. It would seem probable however, that even after this public recantation, he still had a great admiration for al-Hallaj. Among his works of jurisprudence that have survived are Wadih fi usul al-fiqh and (in part) Kitab al-funun, a work comprising 800 volumes.

Ibn 'Aqil was appointed to a well-known academic "chair" in Jami' al-Mansur in Baghdad. The notion of a "chair" arose in eleventh century. At that time, a study circle or a Halaqat al-'ilm or halaqa gathered around a professor who was seated on a chair, or kursi in Arabic. Initially, the chair was just to give the teacher a comfortable place and to make him higher than the seated students so they could see and hear him better. It is this notion of "chair," or kursi, that evolved into a professional position, like the chair of a board or a committee.

The professor in the chair of the study circles was either chosen by the caliph or by a committee of scholars (al-Hawza), as in present day Qum in Iran or Najaf in Iraq. They were chosen for their scholarly prowess and popularity.

Abu'l-Wafa' ibn 'Aqil see Ibn ‘Aqil, Abu‘l-Wafa‘
Abu al-Wafa Ali Ibn Aqil ibn Ahmad al-Baghdadi see Ibn ‘Aqil, Abu‘l-Wafa‘
Baghdadi, Abu al-Wafa Ali Ibn Aqil ibn Ahmad al- see Ibn ‘Aqil, Abu‘l-Wafa‘

Alex Shear, Owner of 100,000 Pieces of American Kitsch

Alex Shear, Owner of 100,000 Pieces of American Kitsch, Dies at 73

By MARGALIT FOXJAN. 25, 2014

Alex Shear in his apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 1996. Mr. Shear filled his home, as well as 11 storage facilities, floor to ceiling with his vast collection of pop-culture artifacts. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

They were all his Rosebuds: the vacuum cleaner shaped like a rocket ship, the toaster shaped like a piece of toast, the suitcase with an electric iron in the handle, the potato mashers (he owned about 500), the tin soldiers, the fallout-shelter sign and the gasoline-powered pogo stick.

When Alex Shear died in New York at 73 this month, he left behind a collection widely described as one of the largest assemblages — quite possibly the largest one — of pop-culture artifacts in private hands, with holdings so vast they once spanned 11 storage facilities in three states.

Mr. Shear, whose former career as a department store buyer and product designer had given him the wherewithal for a life of ardent accumulation, deplored the word “collector.” Though items he acquired have been exhibited at renowned museums, his collection as a whole, he often said, was about far more than the drive to assemble.

It was, as he put it, a window into the American soul, built from the literal stuff of life, a tangible hedge against the passage of time.

Mr. Shear amassed a trove of consumer products, folk art and riotous kitsch. Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

“American culture is now global culture,” Mr. Shear told the marketing magazine Promo in 2000. “And the good news for me is that I own most of it.”

Mr. Shear died in Manhattan on Jan. 10 when he was struck by a tour bus at 96th Street and Broadway. No charges have been filed, a spokesman for the New York Police Department said on Tuesday in confirming the death.

Comprising some 100,000 items assembled from the flea markets and antiques shows he haunted for five decades, Mr. Shear’s collection was famous for its size and scope. Where another collector might focus exclusively on baseball cards or bowling shirts, his quarry was nothing less than all of American postwar material culture — the everyday ephemera that museums had largely ignored.

In his 2003 book, “To Have and to Hold: An Intimate History of Collectors and Collecting,” the journalist Philipp Blom called Mr. Shear “the Noah of American life.”

Mr. Shear’s ark took in consumer products, folk art and riotous kitsch. There were obscure board games like Capital Punishment (“For 2 to 4 Adults”); failed products like the Turnpike Toll Gun, which shot quarters into collection baskets; promotional pillows in the shape of cans of Chef Boy-Ar-Dee and Aqua Net hair spray; and salesmen’s sample cases stocked with tiny models — telephones, swimming pools, prison cells — from which whole cosmos could be conjured.

Mr. Shear, who lectured on popular culture around the country, appeared often on television and was the subject of profiles in newspapers and magazines, including, in 1999, a long article in The New Yorker.

To read one of them is to be in the presence of its subject at full acquisitive tilt, his speech a torrent of syntax that in its gnomic wisdom recalled Zen koans: “Oil cans make the home”; “To me, looking at coffee pots is the same as looking at women”; “This country is totally immersed in whippers.” (He meant the kind used on egg whites.)

For some years, Mr. Shear earned a modest living as a “nostalgia consultant,” as The New York Times called him, creating displays for corporate events and renting out props for advertising shoots. He abandoned this work after props went unreturned: Collecting was a keener imperative than commerce.

Artifacts from his collection have seeded well-received museum exhibitions, including “Mechanical Brides,” featuring home and office products made to appeal to midcentury women, at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York in 1993.

Curators often dropped in on Mr. Shear’s New York apartment for advice on acquisitions — or, more precisely, for an emphatic reminder of the tens of thousands of items their collections lacked.

His holdings were so comprehensive that he could assemble impromptu “exhibitions” as the need arose. When one of Mr. Shear’s sons was 5 or 6 and enamored of building, he came home one day and found to his delight that his father had transformed his bedroom into a realistic construction site, complete with Con Edison barricades and orange safety cones.

In recent years, most of Mr. Shear’s collection has been in storage in his hometown, Lancaster, Pa., awaiting the museum of his own he hoped to open one day. The Museum for Regular People, he planned to call it.

Previously, much of the collection had resided, together with Mr. Shear and a little essential furniture, in an apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan awash in artifacts — floor to ceiling in places — a state of affairs that persisted through his marriage to Betty Blum in 1980 and beyond its dissolution a decade later.

“When Betty moved out, I had the fantastic opportunity to fill my seven-room apartment with my stuff,” Mr. Shear told The Times in 1992.

It was during their breakup that Mr. Shear began collecting the plastic bride-and-groom figurines that now form a conspicuous slice of his holdings, for if Mr. Shear’s collection is a mirror of America’s psyche, it was equally, by his own ready acknowledgment, a mirror of Mr. Shear’s.

Alexander Joel Shear was born in Lancaster on March 5, 1940, into a mercantile family. His mother’s family ran a department store in Florida; his father, a grocer turned toy wholesaler, kept a warehouse filled with inaccessible objects of desire: yo-yos, Hula-Hoops, Flexible Flyers.

“My dad was not a demonstrative man, but if you talked to him about merchandise, his eyes would light up,” Mr. Shear said in The New Yorker article. “We communicated with him through stuff.”

As a child, Alex could take home any toy from the warehouse — provided he returned it, in its original box, in mint condition.

“At face value, a fantastic opportunity,” Mr. Shear told The Times in 1992. “But maybe it wasn’t so great. Sort of like having to go to the library to take out a book, but never owning one.”

After receiving an accounting degree from Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Mr. Shear joined Macy’s in New York, where he ran one of the store’s seasonal Christmas shops.

For J. C. Penney, which he joined in the late 1960s, he became a buyer of kitchenware and other home furnishings. Researching the field, he scoured flea markets to amass a palpable reference library of midcentury domesticity — dishes and blenders and curtains and towels — and found his lifework.

“I realized,” Mr. Shear told The New Yorker, “that the thing I love is stuff.”

He struck out on his own as a successful designer of housewares and kitchen textiles before turning to collecting full time.

Mr. Shear’s survivors include a twin brother, Ted, and two sons, William and Andrew.

The future of his collection, which has not been appraised, is undetermined, though Mr. Shear’s sons hope to move forward with plans for a museum, Andrew Shear said.

Over the years, when interviewers visited Mr. Shear’s home, what they seemed to notice most was its immense inventory of toys, boldly arrayed as if in answer to his father’s long-ago dictum to look but not touch.

“Now,” Mr. Shear told The Philadelphia Inquirer in 2003, “I have more toys than he ever did.”

Evoking a winter pleasure of his youth — “some of my happiest times,” Mr. Shear once said — those toys include a substantial collection of sleds, among them Flexible Flyers.

Ed Hookstratten, Forceful Agent for the Stars

Ed Hookstratten, Forceful Advocate for the Stars, Dies at 83

By WILLIAM YARDLEYJAN. 25, 2014

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Ed Hookstratten, an unapologetically aggressive lawyer and agent for entertainers and sports figures including Elvis Presley, Johnny Carson, Tom Brokaw and the football coach George Allen, died on Tuesday at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 83.

The cause was congestive heart failure, his son, Jon, said.

Mr. Hookstratten grew up in Southern California and developed a remarkable sense of how the region’s most prominent and successful people eventually became the same complicated species: celebrities. Early on, as a young lawyer at a personal injury firm, he discreetly fixed their traffic tickets. Later, having built relationships and trust, he made many of them more prominent, more successful and richer, not always discreetly.

He was known as “the Hook,” and he was known for being brutally direct, regardless of the context.

“When he was at home, four-letter words were his vocabulary,” his son said.

Over more than four decades in the business, Mr. Hookstratten helped the singer Peggy Lee and top television executives make their driving violations go away. He appeared late in Las Vegas hotel suites to help get Mr. Presley out of paternity claims. In negotiations leading up to Mr. Brokaw’s appointment as the anchor of “NBC Nightly News” in 1982, Mr. Hookstratten helped make him something he never thought he would be: a wealthy journalist.

“I was astonished by it as much as anybody,” Mr. Brokaw said in an interview on Friday. “And I think Ed was, to some degree, by how much money was being thrown around.”

Mr. Hookstratten was among the first agents to recognize and capitalize on the rising financial leverage of sports coaches and television news anchors and reporters. His favorite clients had solid public images and competing suitors, and were unfettered by tedious contracts. His work elevating Mr. Allen presaged an era when coaches make millions on the field or the court and write best-selling self-help books on the side.

In 1970, when the Los Angeles Rams let Mr. Allen go, Mr. Hookstratten negotiated his new contract to coach the Washington Redskins, commanding a $125,000 annual salary, the highest in the league for a coach, and what at the time was a remarkable set of perks, including a chauffeur and an unlimited expense account.

As Hollywood became home to increasingly larger talent agencies, Mr. Hookstratten maintained a very small operation, and was often close to his clients.

He dined regularly with the baseball broadcaster Vin Scully and golfed with the television personality Tom Snyder, advising him on how best to regroup after several public career setbacks in the early 1980s. (Among the tips: Lie low for a while, return to your news roots. Mr. Snyder did, and he eventually returned to national television.) He usually had three televisions on in his office, and he was known to call local news directors to complain about the makeup or lighting for his clients.

“It wasn’t just about negotiating a number, their salary,” said his son, who worked with him for several years and now is an executive vice president at Fox Broadcasting. “It was about creating their brand, before people were creating brands.”

Edward Gregory Hookstratten was born on June 12, 1930, in Whittier, Calif. His father, Edward, worked in an ice cream plant the family owned.

Mr. Hookstratten attended the University of Southern California on a baseball scholarship, graduating in 1962. Five years later he received his law degree from Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles. He developed his reputation as a celebrity fixer while working in his first job out of law school, in the firm of Raoul Magaña.

In addition to his son, from his first marriage to the actress Pat Crowley, Mr. Hookstratten’s survivors include his wife, the former Aimee Richelieu; a brother, Jim; a daughter, Ann Osher, also from his first marriage; two daughters from his second marriage, Eve and Mae Hookstratten; and five grandchildren.

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Mr. Hookstratten had long courted Mr. Brokaw, and Mr. Brokaw long resisted, not seeing himself as needing the services of someone so brash.

“He was always saying, ‘I could make you a lot of money,’ ” Mr. Brokaw recalled. “We came out of different gene pools.”

But in the early 1980s, when Mr. Brokaw decided he was ready to leave his role at the “Today” show to return to hard news, the top news anchors’ salaries were soaring and the bargaining was getting more tense.

“Well,” Mr. Brokaw said to himself, “I think it’s time.”

He called Mr. Hookstratten.

The appearance of Mr. Hookstratten struck a measure of fear at negotiating tables. When things did not go his way, he was known to send his adversaries curt two-word notes (the first word had four letters). But even as he could be ruthless, he was also “winning and roguish,” as Mr. Brokaw put it, and he was usually able to preserve even the most strained relationship.

“Because of his personality, I enjoy negotiating with him,” Ed Joyce, then the executive vice president of CBS News, told The New York Times in 1982. “It is like being in a big poker game.

“I like to play cards with someone else who is good. It is no fun playing cards with a stiff.”

Ed Hookstratten, Hollywood lawyer and agent, dies at 83

By Joe Flint, E-mail the writer

Ed Hookstratten, a lawyer and agent whose powerful roster of clients made him a force to be reckoned with in the worlds of sports, entertainment and journalism, died Jan. 22 at his home in Beverly Hills, Calif. He was 83.
He had congestive heart failure, according to his family.

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This 1970 photo released by courtesy of Sony Pictures Television shows, back row, from left, cast members, Shirley Jones, Dave Madden, David Cassidy, Susan Dey, and front row, from left, Brian Forster, Danny Bonaduce and Suzanne Crough of the television series, 'The Partridge Family.' Madden, who played the child-hating agent on the hit 1970s sitcom, died in Florida on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2014, at age 82. (AP Photo/Copyright CPT Holdings Inc, Courtesy Sony Pictures Television)

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Known as a kingmaker, Mr. Hookstratten had a client list that included Elvis Presley, Johnny Carson, Tom Brokaw, Marcus Allen, Pat Riley and Vin Scully. He was also general counsel of the Los Angeles Rams, holding tremendous sway over the franchise for several years as well as several other National Football League teams because he represented many top head coaches, including George Allen. Allen coached the Washington Redskins from 1971 to 1977.
Nicknamed “The Hook,” Mr. Hookstratten had a reputation for being a ferocious negotiator who wasn’t shy about raising his voice. For many years, he drove a Rolls-Royce with a vanity plate that read “Hook.” He could usually be found at lunch holding court with other power players in the third booth on the right at the Grill, which he owned a piece of at one time, in Beverly Hills.
Mr. Hookstratten was a hands-on agent and lawyer, and little slipped past his sharp eye. He wouldn’t hesitate to call a TV station to complain about the makeup on one of his clients or hang up on an executive if he didn’t like the offer he was hearing.
“He fought for his clients. When you were dealing with Ed, he could be a formidable adversary,” said former NBC president Fred Silverman, who often found himself sitting across from Mr. Hookstratten at the negotiating table. “He was just a terrific agent and lawyer.”
Brokaw said that when he retained Mr. Hookstratten to handle a contract negotiation, the reaction from one NBC executive was extreme. “He literally clutched his chest and said, ‘You hired The Hook? Oh, my God,’ ” Brokaw said.
Mr. Hookstratten was also something of an old-school Hollywood fixer for his clients, getting many out of potentially embarrassing jams and making sure the media were none the wiser.
“He got speeding tickets and DUIs fixed for a lot of people,” Brokaw said.
Mr. Hookstratten also made sure to know anyone who could be of use to a client down the road. While representing Presley, Mr. Hookstratten once had to persuade a Beverly Hills auto dealership to open in the middle of the night so the King could go car shopping.
Edward Gregory Hookstratten was born June 12, 1930, in Whittier, Calif. He was a star baseball player in high school and received a scholarship to the University of Southern California, where he pitched for legendary coach Rod Dedeaux. Mr. Hookstratten, who remained a prominent USC booster throughout his life, played a key role in raising the funds to build Dedeaux Field.
After graduating from Southwestern School of Law in Los Angeles, Mr. Hookstratten worked for Raoul Magaña, a prominent personal injury attorney.
Mr. Hookstratten got his first taste of show business there when he took care of a traffic ticket for singer Peggy Lee. Soon after, he set up shop as an entertainment lawyer and agent.
Before long, he had a list of star athletes including Los Angeles Rams quarterbacks Bill Munson and Roman Gabriel. He developed a close relationship with then-Rams owner Carroll Rosenbloom and his wife Georgia and had an at-times rocky stint as the team’s general counsel.
Mr. Hookstratten continued to represent other head coaches while working for the Rams, which raised eyebrows around the league as a potential conflict of interest. He often represented multiple on-air stars at the same networks and stations, which gave him many cards to play with management.
Unlike today’s agents who usually toil for giant firms such as Creative Artists Agency and William Morris Endeavor, Mr. Hookstratten was something of a lone wolf, albeit one who once employed seven secretaries.
“I don’t think there will ever be anyone like that again — the one operator who can pick up the phone and get anyone he wants to,” Brokaw said.
Survivors include his wife, Aimee Richelieu; two children from his first marriage to the actress Pat Crowley; two children from his second marriage; a brother; and five grandchildren.

Sarah Marshall, Actress in "Twilight Zone" and "Star Trek"

Sarah Marshall, Actress in ‘Twilight Zone’ and ‘Star Trek’, Dies at 80

By DANIEL E. SLOTNIKJAN. 25, 2014

Sarah Marshall with William Shatner on the set of Star Trek. CBS Paramount Television, via Photofest

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Ms. Marshall with Robert Sampson, left, and Charles Aidman in the episode “Little Girl Lost” of “The Twilight Zone.” Cayuga Productions, Photofest

Sarah Marshall, an actress who was born into show business and worked on Broadway, in film and on television, perhaps most memorably in episodes of “The Twilight Zone” and “Star Trek,” died on Jan. 18 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 80.

The cause was stomach cancer, said her grandson, Seamus Marshall Bourne.

Ms. Marshall was the only daughter of the British film and theater stars Herbert Marshall and Edna Best. She left private school at 16 to pursue acting full time, with her mother’s help.

“We decided acting was a better education than school,” she was quoted as saying in Sidney Fields’s syndicated column “Only Human” in 1958. She was often cast as an ingénue.

Ms. Marshall performed opposite José Ferrer in the 1953 Broadway revival of the cross-dressing farce “Charley’s Aunt” and won a Theater World Award for her work in the 1956 play “The Ponder Heart,” based on a Eudora Welty story.

She was nominated for a Tony for her performance in George Axelrod’s 1959 comedy “Goodbye, Charlie,” which also starred Lauren Bacall and Sydney Chaplin.

“There is a little gem of malicious acting by Sarah Marshall, whose honeyed style is spiked with vinegar,” Brooks Atkinson wrote in his review of that play in The New York Times.

Ms. Marshall’s first film was “The Long, Hot Summer” (1958), with Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. She appeared with Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver in Ivan Reitman’s political comedy “Dave” (1993) and with Michelle Pfeiffer in “Dangerous Minds” (1995).

She was a mainstay on television, appearing on shows from “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” to “Cheers.” In 1962 she played a woman whose daughter vanishes into the fourth dimension in the “Twilight Zone” episode “Little Girl Lost,” and in 1967 she played a former love interest of William Shatner’s Capt. James T. Kirk in the “Star Trek” episode “The Deadly Years.”

Ms. Marshall was born in London on May 25, 1933. After her parents divorced in 1939, she and her mother moved to Los Angeles. In 1952 she married the set designer Melvyn Bourne. The marriage ended in divorce.

In 1958 she met the actor Karl Held while performing in “The World of Suzie Wong” on Broadway. They were married in 1964. He survives her, as do a son from her first marriage, Timothy M. Bourne, and four grandchildren.

Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Herbert Haber, Mayor Lindsay's Labor Negotiator

Herbert L. Haber, 89, Dies; Negotiated in Era of Strikes

By PAUL VITELLOJAN. 26, 2014

Herbert L. Haber in 1970. Eddie Hausner/The New York Times

Herbert L. Haber, the chief labor negotiator for the City of New York from 1966 to 1973, when strikes by transit workers, firefighters, the police, teachers and garbage collectors tested the balance of power between the city and its municipal unions, died on Jan. 20 in Auburndale, Mass. He was 89.

The cause was heart failure, said a niece, Jane Stein.

Mr. Haber was head of the Office of Labor Relations, established in 1966 by John V. Lindsay, the newly elected reform-minded Republican mayor, to consolidate the collective bargaining system and to fulfill a campaign promise to end what he called “the back-room deals” that defined the city’s relationship with its unions.

Under Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Mr. Lindsay’s Democratic predecessor, contracts had been negotiated by a grab bag of city officials, including the mayor himself, the city budget director and the heads of a dozen city agencies. The process had spawned 300 union contracts, and each expired on a timetable independent from the rest.

Mr. Haber’s new agency reduced the number of union bargaining units and contracts to 90, established a rolling timetable of expiration dates — a calendar that is still in place — and professionalized the city’s dealings with the representatives of its 300,000 unionized workers.

During his eight years as Mr. Lindsay’s labor leader, Mr. Haber served as a kind of smokejumper in chief for a city ablaze in labor unrest.

When firefighters staged work slowdowns, patrolmen called in sick by the thousands, or incinerator operators, sewer workers and bridge tenders walked off the job, he received the first phone call.

He cajoled, threatened and bargained with representatives of city doctors and nurses who threatened to walk off the job in 1967 and 1968; welfare caseworkers who struck for three days in 1967; sanitation workers who went on a nine-day strike in 1968; and police officers who staged a wildcat strike that lasted six days in 1971.

A lawyer and former arbitrator with a dozen years of experience mediating labor disputes for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, Mr. Haber said he often felt like a mountain goat, “leaping from crisis to crisis.”

“Almost every day there is a crisis somewhere, a crisis that City Hall doesn’t even hear about, but I hear about,” he said in a 1971 interview with The New York Post. For him, he added, “the abnormal is the normal; I eat a lot of Gelusil.”

The atmosphere of unrest had been set months before Mr. Haber arrived, when 33,000 members of the Transit Workers Union began a 12-day strike to greet Mr. Lindsay’s inauguration as mayor on Jan. 1, 1966.

Mr. Haber, appointed that July, entered a fray that was bigger than anything he or Mayor Lindsay could fully control, said David P. Lipsky, the Estabrook Professor of Dispute Resolution at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations.

There was a near-perfect storm of coinciding currents, he said — the rising power of municipal unions, the city’s declining prosperity, the ’60s zeitgeist, and the visceral distrust between union leaders and a patrician Republican mayor — contributing to the events that earned New York the nickname “Strike City,” during the Lindsay years.

Labor historians are divided over which side prevailed. Municipal labor contracts negotiated by Mr. Haber and his staff raised average salaries for city workers by 45 percent. A federal survey showed average public-sector wages nationwide rising during the same period by close to 60 percent.

“Haber deserves credit,” Professor Lipsky said. “He held his own under considerable pressure.”

Herbert Lawrence Haber was born in the Bronx on Aug. 6, 1924, one of two children of Morris and Shirley Haber. His father owned a series of small millinery and garment-production businesses.

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After graduating from Evander Childs High School, Mr. Haber attended Brooklyn College, then transferred to the University of Colorado, where he received his law degree. After leaving the Office of Labor Relations in early 1974, he worked for 35 years as an arbitrator in private practice.

He is survived by his wife, Doris Gelman; two daughters, Nancy Haber and Cally Haber, from his first marriage, to Helen Leikind Haber, who died more than 30 years ago; two grandchildren; and a sister, Lucille Shenkin.

Mr. Haber was not always treated kindly by union leaders and their members. His office and home in Manhattan were often the target of picketers. Striking welfare workers once barricaded him in his office.

In January 1971, while negotiating a new contract with the Uniformed Sanitationmen’s union — and with their nine-day strike of 1968 still a bitter memory for city officials — tensions between Mr. Haber and the union president, John J. DeLury, led to a breakdown in talks.

With heavy snow in the forecast, Mr. DeLury sought to reassure New Yorkers that the streets would be plowed, regardless.

“Now God has spoken and we want to respond to God,” he said outside the room where talks had reached an impasse, “even if we don’t respond to Haber.”

Mr. Haber and Mr. DeLury eventually reached an agreement, though not until 10 months later.

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