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...think they noticed us when we sat down. My companion told me that Jacquet was playing "a number he waxed a while back" called Flying Home. Quick to join in the spirit of the crowd, I suggested that the music was "real gone." I must have been overheard, for one of the girls at the table glared at me and commented, "Frenetic, man, frenetic." I stood corrected...
...such thing, cried Eyring: "Psychiatric quackery!" His wife and friends protested too. Indeed, said they, the whole thing seemed to be nothing but a Mortimer plot. Friends testified that one board member's wife had been overheard to declare that the board would "drive Eyring crazy, if he wasn't crazy already." Meanwhile, Mortimer's sister, who happened to be Eyring's secretary, was deliberately trying to sabotage him, Eyring charged, by turning away visitors to his office...
Patient Kijowski had lain swathed in pressure bandages for seven weeks, when he overheard a conversation: a doctor was explaining to a patient in the next bed that skin from any donor can be used for temporary grafts, but that it eventually sloughs off. For a permanent graft, only unburned skin from the patient's own body will do-or, added the doctor, skin from an identical twin. "Doctor," interrupted Leo Kijowski, "I've got a twin...
Instead of a formal state document, what the Senate got turned out to be largely a casual collection of jottings by a State Department secretary who had overheard some of the talks. Nobody was present when the President and MacArthur talked privately at breakfast on Wake, and no stenographer was present officially at the full-scale conference later attended by both staffs. But at the big conference, Ambassador Philip Jessup's secretary, pretty Vernice Anderson, had been sitting quietly in a tiny cubbyhole off the conference room, waiting to type up the communique. Fresh pineapple was laid...
Find a Leak. Going beyond the transcript, newsmen kept on the alert to score beats from "leaks." The first big leak came, inadvertently, from General MacArthur himself. As he walked into the room, the general was overheard telling Senators that the White House had assured him that "there would be no stenographers present" at his Wake Island conference with Harry Truman...