Word: overheard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three "secretarial rooms," where 40 or more girls are packed in as tight as on the underground during rush hour. At the end of each of these rooms is a row of six or seven telephones that must do for everyone present, and where conversations are apt to be overheard by all within earshot. Under such circumstances, it is not easy for an Honorable Member to keep his business to himself...
...libretto (it hinges on the drowning of an illegitimate child), by the opera's harshly dissonant score, and its generally unmelodic vocal line. Composer Janacek derived many of his melodies from the inflections of common speech, caught them by prowling around with a notebook, jotting down overheard phrases and sentences in approximate musical notation. The result is that the orchestra becomes part of the drama. In last week's performance (which marked the U.S. debut of opulent-voiced Dutch Soprano Gré Brouwenstijn) Jenufa proved to be as haunting a work as Alban Berg's Wozzek (TIME...
...airport found a 7-oz. gold bar in Chinese Stewardess Jenny Wang's handbag. (Her explanation: Hong Kong residents "customarily" carry gold as "mad money" in case the Chinese Communists should suddenly overrun the city.) A fellow steward, David Furlonger, seeing her being searched, was overheard by an Indian customs official as he remarked, "You can't trust these Asiatics." Infuriated, the customs official ordered Furlonger searched too-and found 4½ Ibs. of gold, worth $4.300, strapped under his clothes...
...Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full and accurate evidence than judgments on a book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation at first agreed that they would consider it off the record; but the story, too intriguing and important to keep quiet, was printed two days later, first by Des Moines Register and Tribune Correspondent Clark Mollenhoff...
...claimed to be able to control the heart, there are no well-documented cases in medical literature of an individual's stopping his own heart at will. What enables Mechanic Hansen to turn the trick is still a mystery. As a youth he suffered from rheumatic fever, once overheard the family doctor tell his parents: "Your boy will never live to be 20." Now the father of a 20-year-old son, Hansen lives with a heart condition and the boyhood-inspired fear that his heart may stop beating. To prevent this, he says that he hopes to "will...