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Madigan, 59, is a press critic. Unlike his print-bound counterparts in other cities, he chastises the profession via the rather quaint medium of radio-for 2½ minutes five days a week over WBBM, the CBS-owned station for which he doubles as political editor. In addition, Madigan is closely tied to the still clanking municipal machine of the late Mayor Richard Daley, a rare alliance for a newsman in these post-Watergate days of pol bashing. Indeed, while other reporters stood outside in the cold, Madigan was allowed to broadcast Daley's funeral live from inside...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Second City Scold | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

Such clubhouse connections make Madigan an object of contempt among many peers, who, nonetheless, would do well to heed him. "John's criticism is first-rate," says John Calloway, news director of the local public television station, "but the question is whether his coziness destroys his credibility elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Second City Scold | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...equal opportunity but compiling poor minority-hiring records themselves, and for red-lining their newspaper vending machine out of nonwhite neighborhoods. Nor does he hesitate to bite the CBS hand that feeds him. He has accused the Tribune's TV critic of being soft on the CBS-TV station; he has twitted his network's leading local anchorman for commentaries distinguished only by "implication and innuendo." The Sun-Times stopped accepting massage parlor ads after Madigan protested, and the voiding of parking tickets among reporters dropped sharply after a Madigan expose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Second City Scold | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...with the bank's desire for a "humane" building, Stubbins proposed to loft an aluminum-faced structure on huge columns 112-ft. tall, thus creating the space for the shopping area and atrium, a sunken entrance plaza with a waterfall tumbling down from street level, a renovated subway station and, of course, the new church. "Aesthetically," says Stubbins, 65, "the Citicorp Center brings back to the city lightness and brightness-it meets the street with drama, and opens up the city canyons in a way no other building has ever attempted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Classy Newcomer on the Skyline | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...while his father languished in prison for debt. Although his servitude lasted only about four months, Dickens never forgot his feelings of abandonment and humiliation; he never confided the experience to his wife. Equally painful was his adolescent-and unrequited-love for a young girl teasingly above him in station...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Spirit of Christmas Present | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

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