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...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 transferred to another job. Sniffs Royko: "Madigan...
...suggestion. Says he: "She is a talented writer with great sensitivity. There is a need for this type of thing." Readers apparently agree. Each of the ten columns that has appeared so far has brought a heavy volume of mail to the newspaper. Though Graham has not hesitated to scold doctors for their insensitivity and inclination to "play God with my body and my life," physicians are among her most faithful readers. At Northwestern University's medical center, one professor has made her writing required reading for his students...
...does not want to be an ambassador anywhere or a public scold of Jimmy Carter or a part of the new Government's diplomatic macinnery. In about a week he will look up from the papers and notes he has been stacking and reading and begin to write his book, which will be an examination of the relationship between the historical necessities and the human choices open to the U.S. during those years that Kissinger lived at the pinnacle of power. It will be a book with people talking and events happening and now and then some professorial thoughts...
...Sportin' Life could use a touch more evil but is admirable in his dandified elusiveness. The depth of this cast is suggested by the presence of the veteran contralto Carol Brice, a regular on the concert scene since the 1940s, in the minor role of a neighborhood scold named Maria...
...Niebuhr ... The other source of my understanding about what's right and wrong in this society is from a friend of mine, a poet named Bob Dylan. After listening to his records ... I've learned to appreciate the dynamism of change in a modern society." Carter went on to scold the lawyers and judges in the audience for not caring more about the legal and moral rights of society's underdogs. He praised Martin Luther King Jr., "who was perhaps despised by many in this room because he shook up our social structure ... and demanded simply that black citizens...