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...coolie hurried through a little hill-squeezed village which at the moment housed D.H.Q., toward the front, up slippery footpaths to a regimental headquarters and then to a battalion headquarters. At each H.Q. he stopped to rest, overheard the officers inside their dugouts discussing great battles and whose fault it was. When the coolie moved on he climbed successive hills, on each of which he saw the great prepared scars where field guns were supposed to be. But there was no artillery...
Although 'Poousters insisted that it was just another bi-weekly fumigation, the real story leaked out when funnyman Summer Andrews '42 was overheard muttering to himself, "Thank God, now it's all burned up." Evidently the final remnants of their slightly bilious parody issue...
Besides Tyrone's thirty college guests the theatre was filled at the preview with a normal Saturday night crowd, who, until the name of the film was flashed on the screen after a little explanation, were absolutely unsuspicious of the "snap" preview trick. One of these Ossining burghers was overheard summing up the situation very neatly. Muttered he, "If I'd of known it wasn't Swiss Family Robinson I would of stayed home...
Then, through pidgin English, the young men would help translate. Oliver also found it helpful to record the ordinary talk of the natives overheard while they were at work in the fields or chatting in the village...
...Electricity and Communication Building: lucky-number long-distance calls overheard by 125 listeners-in (as at the New York World's Fair...