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"There's only one thing wrong with your portrayal of a city editor," says City Editor Bernie Judge, left, to actor Ed Asner, center, paying a recent visit to the Tribune's newsroom. "Your phone just doesn't ring enough." Otherwise, television's Lou Grant played the part perfectly, storming into the newsroom and bellowing to corps of startled reporters, "All right you turkeys, get to work." Pictured at right is Day City Editor Donald Agrella in May 14, 1978.
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“There’s only one thing wrong with your portrayal of a city editor,” says City Editor Bernie Judge, left, to actor Ed Asner, center, paying a recent visit to the Tribune’s newsroom. “Your phone just doesn’t ring enough.” Otherwise, television’s Lou Grant played the part perfectly, storming into the newsroom and bellowing to corps of startled reporters, “All right you turkeys, get to work.” Pictured at right is Day City Editor Donald Agrella in May 14, 1978.

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Ed Asner will be in “A Time For Laughter,” which includes Sholom Aleichem’s “The Grand Prize,” in an evening of Jewish comedy at the Playwrights Theatre Club at 1205 N. Dearborn St. in Chicago, circa 1955.
Ed Asner keeps a sharp eye out for his competitor for the heart of Lynn Bari in a scene form “Goodbye, My Fancy,” showing at the Chevy Chase summer theater in Chicago in 1955.
Ed Asner plays Thomas Becket alongside Jo Trites in “Murder at the Cathedral” at the Playwrights Theatre Club in Chicago in 1954.
Ed Asner on April 16, 1976.
Ed Asner on April 16, 1976.
“There’s only one thing wrong with your portrayal of a city editor,” says City Editor Bernie Judge, left, to actor Ed Asner, center, paying a recent visit to the Tribune’s newsroom. “Your phone just doesn’t ring enough.” Otherwise, television’s Lou Grant played the part perfectly, storming into the newsroom and bellowing to corps of startled reporters, “All right you turkeys, get to work.” Pictured at right is Day City Editor Donald Agrella in May 14, 1978.
Ed Asner plays newspaper editor Lou Grant in “Lou Grant” on CBS.
Ed Asner, actor and political activists, helps distribute Mondale-Ferraro signs for the rally at the Medinah Temple on Oct. 30, 1984, in Chicago.
Ed Asner, actor and political activists, helps distribute Mondale-Ferraro signs for the rally at the Medinah Temple on Oct. 30, 1984, in Chicago.

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