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...real gangster toughies left. A runty guy (5 ft. 5, 139 lb.), he bossed the Capone-rivaling Touhy mob during Chicago's gory beer-war and kidnap-racket days, until sentence in 1934 cut him down. Slant-eyed Basil Banghart, 41, the Touhy mob's tommy-gunner, likewise was serving 99 years for the Factor job. Chicago detectives label him "a regular sharpie," tougher by far than Tough Touhy. Completely dedicated to crime and proud of his profession, Banghart is smart, energetic, fast-talking. The other escapers were no cookie pushers: James O'Connor, 36, serving...
...There he is, for God's sake, open fire.' A machine gun started clicking and shell cases flew all over the place. I looked at Jorgensen [the pilot] and thought he was hit, but it was only muscular contraction as bullets whizzed past. One of the gunners shouted that he had knocked down a Messerschmitt and Frost [a gunner] got a second one. Over the interphone I heard Frost tell Jorgensen: 'I got him, sir. There he goes on fire...
...obviously crippled and unable to climb, fluttered past a British destroyer, one of the ship's smaller guns picked off the raider. Instantly a message flashed from the convoy's British commander: "Thought it not done to shoot a sitting bird." Back flashed a reply from the gunner: "Yes, but I wasn't going to have it perching on my deck...
...nonmilitary construction in Russia stopped at war's outbreak] in which a brigade staff is headquartered. The street bordering it on the north along the German lines has been smashed by mortar fire. At one intersection, where I remember the policeman who used to direct traffic, a tommy-gunner now stands, showing the passing soldiers a dip in the road invisible to the Germans...
...About 115 to 120 boys are conceived for every 100 girls, but normally about 50% more male embryos are lost in miscarriages than female. Fewer children are born in wartime,* especially-suggests Biologist Gunner Dahlberg of Sweden's great Upsala University-to hard-working women, who are most likely to suffer miscarriages. This displacement is enough, he believes, to affect the boy-girl ratio...