What Hedy Weiss did for the Sun-Times, and this city
When Claudia Cassidy, this newspaper's chief arts critic for the mid-section of the 20th century, and arguably the most powerful female employee of the paper's Colonel McCormick era, died in 1996, the New York Times ran an obituary: "Claudia Cassidy, 96, Arts Critic," read the headline, "Did Not...