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...leading singer in Athens' National Opera Company became ill. Maria was invited to take over the role of Tosca on 24 hours' notice. Backstage before the show, she overheard a male voice saying: "That fat bitch will never carry it off." With a shriek of rage, she leaped at the speaker, tore his shirt and bloodied his nose. Maria sang that night with a puffy eye. But she got raves from Athens critics...
...technical failures ran neck and neck with human errors. NBC's Chet Huntley. caught with his mike open, was overheard asking for a cup of coffee, later introduced Herbert Hoover Jr. as "Hoobert Hover"; Daly referred to "the late Senator John Sherman Cooper" (who later rose to address the convention); Elmer Peterson (NBC) reported: "Now the President's plane is landing at Los Angeles' International Airport...
While the higher-flying Democrats politicked at a national level last week, local leaders attending the Chicago convention were also busy with their own problems. A TIME correspondent, prowling a hotel lobby, overheard this conversation between Baltimore's broad and boisterous Mayor Tommy D'Alesandro and another Maryland delegate. Subject: Millard Tydings, hand-picked last spring to battle Republican John Marshall Butler for his old Senate seat, since hospitalized with a serious attack of shingles...
Like the clipped and guarded conversations overheard on British trains, the short stories of H. E. Bates are calculated to baffle the eavesdropper...
...have tutorial systems and all the Houses have resident staffs, but nowhere does this system seem to possess such vitality as at Kirkland. The weekly staff dinners consistently draw a large crowd, with 35 to 40 an average figure. "They really keep me hopping here," Professor Taylor was once overheard to remark. And they...