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Roger ("Terrible") Touhy knew all the rackets: liquor, bank stickups, kidnapping. So did his pal, Basil ("The Owl") Banghart, whose skill with a machine gun was a Chicago gangland legend. Both were tough and smart as horsewhips, and proud of being redhots. When a prison official asked Banghart his occupation The Owl boasted: "I'm a thief...
When they escaped from the Illinois Stateville Prison (TIME, Oct. 19), they hid out the smart way. With five other desperadoes who made the prison break they headed for Touhy's old bumping-off grounds on Chicago's North Side. Here was the ideal hangout: cheap hotels, row on row of furnished apartments, a floating population of clerks, barkeeps, nightclub entertainers, girls with no visible means of support. And Touhy and Banghart were smart enough to avoid the mistakes of other public enemies before them: they stayed out of the nightspots, kept away from their old underworld friends...
...against Willkie, with four or five strong exceptions. In State headquarters hang the pictures of every prominent Republican, from Abraham Lincoln on. The only ones missing are onetime Governor Ed Jackson, who was tried and acquitted of bribery; the late Governor Warren T. McCray, who served a Federal prison sentence for using the mails to defraud-and Wendell Willkie. . . . Yet among Indiana voters, Willkie has greater support than any other potential 1944 candidate...
...Carl and Shelley Mydans, captured by the Japs in Christmas week 1941, will be beginning their second year in a prison camp. I hope the Japs know this is Christmas and give them a break...
Dialogue With Death, by Arthur Koestler ($2), was a description of the thoughts and actions of a man (Koestler himself) condemned to death in a Fascist prison...