Word: overheards
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...almond-eyed France Nuyen (the Liat of the movie version of South Pacific) who goes farthest toward saving the show with her high-heeled stance, her eloquent hips and her intelligent impersonation of a tough but dreamy little tramp. Director Josh Logan is unworried. After opening night he was overheard saying: "This is the kind of play that even the people who talk against it will make people want to see it. They'll say, 'It's a lousy story of a damn whorehouse.' What difference does it make if they say it has a lousy...
...claimed to be doing just that. He was hardly a confidence-inspiring witness. He seemed bent on destroying the reputations of everyone connected with the show, admitted bitterly envying Charles Van Doren, the man who defeated him. ("I took my wife to the theater one night, and I overheard somebody saying, 'That's the guy who was beat by Charles Van Doren.' It hurt me egotistically.") The very mention of Producer Enright seemed to choke Herb with bile. But for all his vindictiveness, his detail-packed story commanded attention...
From a conversation he overheard in the mess hall, he knew that the Dutch air force C-47 standing outside was about to take off for Australia. He tried to sneak aboard but found the plane door locked. As he circled the plane, looking for a place to hide, he spotted the two nacelle cavities that house the big wheels when the plane is in flight. He climbed up, crouched among the upper struts of one of the cavities and, praying he would not be discovered, waited for the takeoff...
...According to Globe legend, a man whom Winship overheard calling another "You dirty Jew." Winship fired him on the spot...
Concerning Esma Jackson's "closeup" of Mrs. Eisenhower [March 17]: it might turn out to be unfortunate that Reporter Jackson overheard Mamie mention Ike's favorite tune [When You and I Were Young, Maggie]. Perhaps by the time he leaves office, he will have learned to hate it as F.D.R. did Home on the Range...