Word: royko
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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...
...your work has become syndicated in the last few years, you have in some ways become sort of the imparter of Texas news to the world. The comparison that comes most easily to mind is the early work of Mike Royko, who performed much the same service for Chicago...
...tell them: "I don't want to move to Washington. And if Royko can do it out of Chicago why I can't do it out of Texas...