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Yankees Fire Casey Stengel!
The Daily MirrorOct. 19, 1960: Casey Stengel, the most successful baseball manager of modern times, was fired by the New York Yankees Tuesday only because of his age and despite his heated insistence that at 70 he is "just as good as...... -
'Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression' by Morris Dickstein
Morris Dickstein's "Dancing in the Dark" is not exactly the syncretic "Cultural History of the Great Depression" that its subtitle promises -- at best, the book treats inferentially the broad political and social trends of that desperate, crucial era. Let...Tags: Bing Crosby, John Steinbeck, Bette Davis, Great Depression (1929), Dorothea Lange
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Matt Weinstock, April 6, 1960
The Daily MirrorThe Silly Season Obviously the sun spots which jammed radio and TV reception a few days ago didn't do people any good, either. The kids are all mixed up, or at least pretending to be. Bob Owen thinks it's about time someone exposed what he considers an... -
Studs Terkel, writer and radio personality, dies at 96
Studs Terkel, who made his name listening to ordinary folks talk about their ordinary lives -- and who turned that knack for conversation into a much-honored literary career -- died Friday. He was 96.
Terkel died of old age at his home in Chicago, his...Tags: Bob Dylan, Mark Twain, Radio, Minority Groups, Martin Luther King Jr.
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Studs Terkel dies
Tribune staff reporterLouis Terkel arrived here as a child from New York City and in Chicago found not only a new name but a place that perfectly matched--in its energy, its swagger, its charms, its heart--his own personality. They made a perfect and enduring pair. Author-...Tags: Radio, Angela Lansbury, Sales, University of Chicago, Rush University
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Chicago by the book
Perhaps the reason Chicago has so few literary shrines is because it has been home to so many writers. Towns with only one claim to fame canonize local heroes: Salinas, Calif., turned John Steinbeck's boyhood home into a museum, while Hannibal, Mo.,...Tags: West Town, H.L. Mencken, Kenwood, University of Chicago, Metal and Mineral
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Touring haunts of local writers
Perhaps Chicago has so few literary shrines because it has been home to so many writers. Towns with only one claim to fame canonize local heroes: Salinas, Calif., turned John Steinbeck's boyhood home into a museum, while Hannibal, Mo., devoted several...Tags: Mark Twain, H.L. Mencken, John Steinbeck, Democratic National Conventions, University of Chicago
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Callaway on Callaway
Can a country-boy-turned-big-city-journalist reinvent himself one more time?" The question was posed in 1999 by - and about - John Callaway in his farewell broadcast after 15 years on "Chicago Tonight," a news discussion show he had made into acclaimed...Tags: John Callaway, News Media, Bing Crosby, Chicago Tribune, Television
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