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Prominent among the doubters is Mike Royko, whose syndicated Daily News column is the city's chief journalistic export - and a favorite Madigan target. Madigan has pilloried the Daily News and its rivals for burying an account of the columnist's arrest last winter in a barroom brawl, an incident Madigan recounted in loving detail. The radio scold frequently delights in picking Royko's nits. The columnist last month reported that Mayor Bilandic, in firing Consumer Sales Commissioner Jane Byrne, had also fired her secretary, the mother of six children. The secretary, Madigan pointed out, was merely...
...Hamill is trying to say about incest falls short of being at all comprehensive. He should have stuck with the fairly insightful thoughts on why Fallon likes to box, that he began with: The story revolves around an Irish kid from Brooklyn, who gets himself involved in a barroom brawl and winds up in jail. Jail turns out to do him a lot of good, because it is there that trainers discover Bobby's boxing talent (he isn't a good fighter yet, but he's got the instinck...), and launch him into training for the all-impressive boxing career...
...clubhouse was a shambles. Brooding and set to explode, Martin decided he must have a public showdown with Jackson to preserve his authority. "All the players were waiting for it," he said later. When Jackson loafed fielding a hit in Boston, Martin yanked him off the field. The dugout brawl that followed-Martin tried to attack Jackson-was seen on national television. Steinbrenner, astonished by the outburst, was set to fire Martin, then decided against it. He felt it would destroy both Jackson and the team. As for Martin, he viewed the incident as the turning point of the Yankee...
...drinker by the age of 16 with a voracious appetite for undercooked meat and slightly overripe women, he gave every promise of going on to become a late-19th century rebel without a cause-one of those frontiersmen with no frontier whose energies slowly dissipate in an aimless barroom brawl with life...
Even more than great wealth, Howard Hughes prized privacy. Now, 17 months after his death from kidney failure in an air ambulance over Texas, the last shrouds of secrecy that enveloped his reclusive existence are finally being peeled away. And the disclosures are adding zing to the already roughhouse brawl over Hughes' financial empire, which was valued at $2.3 billion in the late 1960s. It is being racked by internal strife, buffeted by lawsuits and threatened by a plethora of alleged Hughes wills...