Exchange of the Day (Doris Lessing and Studs Terkel)

Lessing, in 1969, appearing on Terkel’s radio show: “You do still have gangsters [in Chicago], don't you?”

Terkel: “Yes, but these days they're mostly in business, or politics.”

(The death of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Terkel died leaves the worlds of radio and oral history infinitely poorer. And, despite the comment to Lessing, he proved to be a longer-lasting—and certainly more beloved—institution in his city than its gangsters.)