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Ever since they crushed out of the Council Bluffs, Iowa "escape-proof" jail eight weeks ago (TIME, Jan. 29), the Toothbrush Twins had been touring the U.S. The two hoodlums-tough, tall John Giles and tough, short Edgar Cook-gained their freedom and their nicknames by unlocking six steel doors with a toothbrush and a wooden spoon. They made their escape in a blue police car, abandoned it, stole another automobile, abandoned it, stole another-and in this fashion set out across the countryside, plying their trade (burglary) from time to time...
...final three-quarter -mile trip in a Velo taxi cost 300 francs. She took a member of the Consultative Assembly to a moderate-priced restaurant for lunch - 700 francs. Bought a plain white handkerchief to blow her nose in - 90 francs. Bought a weekly supply of cigarets, candy, toothbrush and powder- 25 francs. Bought a cheap diary to keep her dates in -200 francs. Dinner with wine at the Hotel Scribe (Army-operated - therefore inexpensive) 115 francs...
Then they were stripped and searched again. Cook had somehow picked up $145 in currency and a steel pick. After that jailers took away their shoes, underwear, furniture, and left them in bare cells with nothing but coveralls, woolen socks, and a blanket and toothbrush apiece. Their meals were served on paper plates, eaten with wooden spoons...
...take off like a P-38." The policemen chuckled. The third-floor cells had tool-proof bars, and six steel doors barred the only possible route of escape. But in the hours before dawn the shoeless prisoners began unlocking doors-with keys made from a wooden spoon and a toothbrush. They walked downstairs to the basement, crawled through a window, climbed into the blue police car and "took off like a P-38," while a startled cop banged away with his revolver...
Housebroken. In Buffalo, Mr. & Mrs. Lawrence Delaney returned from a party, found a stranger asleep in their bed, noted that the intruder had also used Mr. Delaney's toothbrush and hair tonic...