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Sample Wright whimsy: "During the latest [D.A.R.] gathering, a [visiting] Daughter . . . was overheard to say to her fellow travelers: 'I always feel so safe here. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we could get people to read Shakespeare instead of all those Red modern writers!' The lady little knows that the Folger Library also harbors the works of John Milton, who counselled rebellion, commended the cutting off of the King's head, and had other dangerous thoughts...
Some months ago a mysterious visitor from the Red mainland, known only as Mr. Tao, began visiting Wei Li-huang in the stucco house. Whatever Mr. Tao said must have been extremely persuasive. Recently the servants overheard a fierce argument between Wei and his anti-Communist son and daughter. Shortly after, Wei and his wife left by automobile, preceded by a dozen pieces of luggage. They changed to a Canton-bound train, and vanished behind the Bamboo Curtain...
...Stalin. During the advance on Warsaw, he was attached to Rokossovsky's army, and it was he who (after consulting Moscow) prevented any help from reaching the" Warsaw uprising. One day in 1944, Bulganin reported to U.S. Ambassador W. Averell Harriman that a certain U.S. officer had been overheard cursing President Roosevelt and voicing his hope that the President would be defeated. When Harriman appeared unexcited by the tip, Bulganin was overheard to mutter in Russian: "Harriman must be one of the conspirators...
Subway Interviewer. London-born Reporter Webb was a successful crime reporter from the day he took his first job as a copy boy on Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. On his way to work the first day he overheard a woman in the subway describe an attempted robbery in which she was the victim, interviewed her on the spot and got a story in the afternoon paper. He has since worked on dailies all over Britain, during World War II found time while serving in the merchant marine to write crime stories whenever he docked in England...
Like every well-bred young lady, Emily spent much of the year at house parties, expected to display her charms to eligible bachelors. Emily was bored to death; to kill time and tedium, she took to botany. One day she overheard staid old Lady Ampthill discussing this choice with Sis ter Betty. The result is a dialogue of priceless, period perfection: Lady A.: Did you see the flower show at the Temple? It was so beautiful, such lovely begonias...