We read in the Sun Times that Mike Royko's son tried to hold up a bank yesterday.No surprise. We knew Royko in the 80s and he was a nasty abusive person. Malheureusement he came to symbolize Chicago the way Capone did, Sandburgian, innanely blue collar, kind of crooked.

Studs Terkel an altogether different story, a charmer, though rather simple-minded and halcyonic about "mankind" (shudder) in an entre deux guerres kind of way.