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Mollie Michala Lyman, model and artist, 1926–2013
As a girl, Mollie Michala Lyman, created paper dolls with custom wardrobes, illustrated her own daily newspaper and drew with crayons on an iron radiator because she liked the way the colors melted in the heat. "Even as a child she was unconventional,"...
Tags: Hyde Park, Fine Arts, Arts, Teaching and Learning, Fine Artists
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Donald P. Russo: Whatever happened to courtesy among drivers?
The name and photograph of Lee Kish of Fanwood, N.J., recently appeared on the front page of this newspaper. He is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. According to information from police contained in news reports, last month Kish fired a gun...Tags: Hyde Park, Mario Andretti, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Fogelsville, Gaming
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Cop: "Every night was a battle and a half"
Retired Chicago Police Lt. Bob Angone had been a cop just 31/2 years by August 1968. He was a veteran of the violence surrounding Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s open housing campaign in 1966 and the riots after King's assassination in April. But neither...Tags: Fatigue, Elections, Politics, Democratic National Conventions, Martin Luther King Jr.
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'Hog butcher for the world'
![The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of glory and gore.](http://www.chicagotribune.com/media/thumbnails/story/2012-02/68200893-18153110-187105.JPG "The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world.\" That came a year earlier, when \"hog alley\" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of glory and gore.")
The shuttering of the Union Stock Yard and Transit Co. on July 30, 1971, didn't mark the end of Chicago's role as "hog butcher for the world." That came a year earlier, when "hog alley" closed, a victim of the stockyards' long descent from years of...Tags: Steaks, Thomas Pynchon, Richard J. Daley, Clinton (Middlesex, Connecticut), Barack Obama
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George McGovern dies at 90; liberal standard-bearer against Nixon in '72
George S. McGovern, an icon of American liberalism who campaigned for the White House with moral fervor against President Richard M. Nixon and the Vietnam War but lost in a thundering landslide, has died. He was 90. McGovern died Sunday morning while...Tags: Bill Clinton, Ronald Reagan, U.S. Senate, Gerald Ford, Democratic Party
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175 Chicago protesters arrested after being told to leave Grant Park
Tribune reporterChicago police arrested about 175 Occupy Chicago protestors in Congress Plaza just after 1 a.m. Sunday, about 90 minutes after police issued their first warning that the group was violating municipal code. Police completed the last arrests and cleared...Tags: Protest, Michigan Avenue, Chicago Transit Authority, Corporate Crime, Activism
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Review: 'Cronkite' by Douglas Brinkley is occasionally critical
-------------------- Cronkite Douglas Brinkley Harper: 820 pp., $34.99 -------------------- Walter Cronkite was not inclined to introspection, and historian Douglas Brinkley emulates his subject in this thorough biography of the news broadcaster who in...
Tags: Television, The Washington Post, Bill Moyers, PBS (tv network), Satellite and Cable Service
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'Bad Moon Rising' exhibit
Pits and pieces from the local sports scene. Library to display exhibition of baseball memorabilia: The Baseball Reliquary presents "Bad Moon Rising: Baseball and the Summer of '68," an exhibition chronicling the extraordinary baseball season of 1968,...Tags: Super Bowl, New York Jets, College Baseball, Bob Gibson, Authors
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Baseball and unrest explored in exhibition at library
Terry Cannon grew up in Detroit rooting for his hometown Tigers. Cannon is the executive director of the Baseball Reliquary, a Pasadena-based nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering an appreciation of American art and culture through the context of...
Tags: Super Bowl, New York Jets, Don Drysdale, Bob Gibson, St. Louis Cardinals
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Charles Osborne Fisher
Charles Osborne Fisher, a World War II veteran and prominent Carroll County attorney whose legal career spanned more than six decades, died Friday at his Westminster home from complications of a broken hip.
He was 95.
"Charles was a real gentleman and...Tags: Hospitals and Clinics, Arable Farming, Roman Catholicism, Laws, Christianity
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McCarthy gets high marks for handling of NATO security
WGN NewsChicago Police Supt. Garry McCarthy was on the front lines at several NATO protests this weekend. He was seen giving orders, directing traffic and he even assisted in an arrest. "We will facilitate your right to free speech but we`re not going to be...Tags: NATO, International Organizations, NATO Summit, Garry McCarthy, Demonstration
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NATO summit will give Chicago a global boost, poll finds
Mayor Rahm Emanuel has touted the NATO summit as a way to showcase Chicago on an international stage, and much of the Chicago area agrees with that notion, a Tribune/WGN-TV poll shows. Nearly 6 out of 10 voters support hosting the conference and think...
Tags: Bill Clinton, International Olympic Committee, Chicago Mayor, Grant Park, G8
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