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Mayor of Chicago Richard J. Daley is the stuff political cartoons are made of-and books like Boss, by Chicago Daily News Columnist Mike Royko. When she saw the book for sale, the mayor's wife, "Sis," was so incensed she got one chain of Chicago supermarkets to remove it from its shelves. It was soon put back, however, and it has now been made into a musical that will open in Chicago's suburban Forum Theater next month. Hizzoner is played by Larry Gittelson, who, when he isn't acting, works as a floriculturist with...
...Chicago Daily News's Washington correspondent Peter Lisagor treated both parties with commendable fairness while panning a campaign he called "a dismal disappointment, the least ennobling in our experience." Mike Royko, Lisagor's Chicago-based colleague, deftly pointed out the irony of Mayor Richard Daley's quick return to party eminence after being unseated by McGovernites at the Democratic Convention: "He's getting his revenge, all right...He just sits back and lets the reformers and new-politics crowd come to him, asking: 'Steal one for us, Dick...
...stock and poll watchers. They prided themselves on their realism, a fact verified by a Daleyite who was prepared to hate the kids until one showed up "so full of vim and vigor and so willing to listen to my advice that I guess I softened." As Columnist Mike Royko mused, Daley, after his humiliation at the Democratic Convention, "has to enjoy seeing all those admiring liberal faces looking...
...lose at least $100,000 from the advertising boycott, declared: "I don't enjoy the loss of business, but I also don't enjoy the suggestion that an outside group can in effect shape our editorial policy." The paper conceded in an editorial note, however, that Royko's "generalizations" were "unwarranted, certainly in the Portland area...
Meanwhile, car dealers all over Chicago were phoning Mike Royko in protest. In a follow-up piece he wrote that he would stand his ground until "I start hearing from happy car buyers and satisfied service-department customers." The Oregonian prudently decided not to run the second column...