Word: earshot
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...Theriot bounced forward to get his picture taken with Symington and Louisiana's own Senator Allen Ellender. "I'm going to pose with two Senators," cried Theriot. "One may be the next President." With a quick laugh, Symington turned to Ellender. "Congratulations, Allen," he said. Everybody within earshot laughed too, for Missouri's Symington was a long way from home and running for President for all he was worth, on his own special road to the White House...
...milling throngs that materialized at every vice presidential stop kept all but a handful of newsmen beyond earshot; in desperation the press corps resorted to a revolving pool system, generously shared notes and observations in a sort of socialized journalism. Leggy ex-Model Jinx Falkenburg, who came along as a correspondent accredited to Long Island's Newsday, reached Novosibirsk before her luggage, bravely showed up at the ballet theater in panties and a raincoat securely belted to hide the absence of skirt...
...hint was casually and artfully dropped at a London cocktail party by a member of the family: the Berrys would like to sell their controlling interest in the sprawling Amalgamated Press Ltd. magazine and periodical empire (72 publications). Hovering within earshot was an executive of the Daily Mirror-Sunday Pictorial group who knew big news when he heard it; he hustled the word back to the ears of his board chairman. This week, barely a month after he got the message, hulking (6 ft. 4 in.), baby-faced Cecil Harmsworth King, 57, bought control of Amalgamated...
...York two weeks ago, consolation continued in nightclubs and during a weekend at Grossinger's. After Liz and Eddie finally returned to the coast, there followed a barrage of press releases -soothing, aggressive, clinical, statesmanlike. Liz went into hiding. Eddie and Debbie had a fight within earshot of newsmen ("What's the matter with you, anyway?" cried she). Everybody was retroactively psychoanalyzed-Eddie had never been close to his father, had always been wild, but now he felt guilty; Debbie was really domineering; Liz-well, Liz was too beautiful for her own good ("I've the body...
...gayest party girl of them all, Elsa Maxwell, 75, confided to Paris reporters something she has long brayed to everyone in earshot at her favored Manhattan watering holes: her credo for frivolous success. Chunks from the eight-lump manifesto, in its current version: "I have developed the fine art of choosing my enemies. Everyone loves truth but nobody says it except me. I firmly believe the world is my oyster. I stay away from geniuses; the men I see most often are Orson Welles, Cole Porter and Aly Khan...