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...long ago, it was hard to write a column. Guys like Mike Royko used to have to get up from their desks, get into a car and ask people questions in neighborhoods that were sometimes dicey. Neighborhoods, I'm told, that had no decent restaurants for expense lunches. Back then, when the concept of news was limited to what happens to other people, editors wouldn't even consider something as monumental as a columnist's own mother's wedding to be newsworthy...
...Shaws pay their greatest homage, though, to Chicago writers. A guest can curl up in the queen-size bed in the Sara Paretsky Room and get lost in a V.I. Warshawski mystery. Or creep in on little cat feet to the Carl Sandburg Room. The Mike Royko Room, with its antique three-quarter bed, is best suited for the lone traveler, while the Studs Turkel Suite in the carriage house provides a break from Working...
Barnicle has taken heat before. The late Chicago columnist Mike Royko twice accused him of plagiarism; in another incident the Globe settled for $75,000 after lawyer Alan Dershowitz charged that Barnicle had attributed a phony quote to him. So when Smith was fired, many thought Barnicle should go with her. Last week Dershowitz was feeling vindicated: "It was the most open secret in all of Boston that Barnicle was a fiction writer." Though Barnicle's popularity could get him employed elsewhere, he says he doesn't want to go anywhere else. "If they end up firing me, jeez...
SENATOR CAROL MOSELEY-BRAUN (Democrat, Illinois) Hamburgers or hot dogs? "Hot dogs." Mustard or catsup? "Catsup. [Columnist Mike] Royko once attacked her by saying no real Chicagoan would put catsup on a hot dog. But he's dead...
DIED. MIKE ROYKO, 64, caustic Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist who ruled the Windy City from his Page 3 pulpit; after surgery for an aneurysm; in Chicago. From high-society dames to low-down pols (a frequent target was former Mayor Richard J. Daley), no one was safe from Royko's pen, including himself, as he learned when minorities protested his tactless quips. But Royko remained unrepentantly irreverent in his column...