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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That televised tirade would not have been remarkable coming from a public official demanding equal time. But it came from Len O'Connor, Chicago's most respected television commentator, and O'Connor used his regular evening-news spot on WMAQ-which happens to be owned by NBC-to castigate his employer of 34 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Incestuous Invective | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...following two evenings a fortnight ago, O'Connor again startled his audience of 725,000 by pressing his attack. He said that the network had "compromised my integrity," and excoriated his superiors-by name-for plotting to fire him. Said O'Connor: "If NBC had any guts, they would do it right now with some degree of honor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Incestuous Invective | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...Connor's three-night burst of invective, which must be a bizarre first for television news, was the high point of an incestuous melodrama starring the crusty silver-maned commentator, Illinois politicians, station and network executives, the FCC and a couple of public-spirited wives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Incestuous Invective | 10/14/1974 | See Source »

...adviser. That sort of speculation is dismissed by both Rand and Greenspan. He says he has little contact with Rand now, and even before the CEA job came, meetings were limited to dinners every month or so with her and her husband of 45 years, Artist Frank O'Connor. On these occasions, Greenspan adds, conversation is just "what old friends talk about." Suspending a policy of shunning press interviews, Rand told TIME'S Sarah Button: "I am a philosopher, not an economist. Alan doesn't seek my advice on these matters. He can tell me more than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONALITY: The Chairman's Favorite Author | 9/30/1974 | See Source »

...Rourke himself protested that O'Connor had not, in fact, forbidden him to baptize the child "under holy obedience" -the form of order usually used in grave matters. Moreover, he said, the dismissal procedures amounted to "almost a trial by Telex," and he intends to appeal the decision to the Vatican. Meantime, he remains a priest-if not a Jesuit-in good standing, though he must now find a bishop who will authorize him to exercise his priestly functions publicly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Tidings | 9/16/1974 | See Source »

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