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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...
...owns "radio's most distinctive adenoids," as Mike Royko puts it, broke into journalism as a copy boy for the old evening American (it died in 1974 as Chicago Today) and rose to become political editor before working in Washington for Hearst and Newsweek. He was a regular panelist on CBS's Face the Nation for nearly five years, then returned to his home town. After becoming WBBM-TV news director, he switched to the network's AM radio outlet in 1968. Snide and thunderous on the air, Madigan at home in his lakefront high-rise...
...feelings, moods and characteristics of many of its citizens. And he was genuine. He lived his entire life in the same Irish back-of-the-yards neighborhood. He talked like his constituents. He revered God and family. Daley made the transition from boss to father figure, columnist Mike Royko wrote, and that holds the clue to how this brontosaurus succeeded...
...also his house, his servant, his ass and his ox," and that he took the Lord's name in vain four times while in the Navy. "Well, nobody's perfect," Nachman imagines Carter explaining, "but sometimes I come pretty doggone close." Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko has an admission of his own about hust on the lustings: "I, too, have looked at women with lust. While wearing dark glasses and without. Straight at them and out of the corner of my eye. Even in the rear view mirror... The last time it happened...
...outcumbent used to tell campaign crowds a story about how, as a boy selling boiled peanuts in Plains, he found there were only two kinds of people in the world, "the good people and those who didn't buy any peanuts." But as Carter admitted to Mike Royko recently: "Somebody analyzed that joke and wrote that it meant I was ruthless. So I decided to be more careful about telling jokes...