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...friend of mine overheard a curious snatch of dialogue at the Phillips Brooks House tea the other afternoon. You know those teas--the ones where Radcliffe Freshmen meet Harvard Freshmen. Here's how the conversation went...
...between his workroom and the light, airy, modern living room. "When both doors are closed, no one may enter," says Vera Stravinsky. "When only the workroom door itself is closed, I may enter, but only I." The room is soundproofed. Says Stravinsky: "I cannot work where I can be overheard...
Colonel Marquie had one vodka too many. Chatting with Thorez and Duclos, he said: "Really, the achievements of the French flyers on the Russian front were not exactly terrific." Thorez, who had sat out the war in Russia, agreed. So did Duclos. Despite the noise, the conversation was overheard by several escadrille members. One of them, Lieut. Alex Laurent, who had been wounded and decorated in Russia, came bounding up to the group, and shoved Duclos aside, saying, "You're too little, I won't bother with you." Then Laurent measured burly Maurice Thorez. "Your patriotism," he said...
...London's Savoy Hotel, John Steinbeck overheard a Chicago Tribune man snort: "Capa, you have absolutely no integrity!" That wartime remark, says Steinbeck, "intrigued me-I was fascinated that anybody could get so low that a Chicago Tribune man could say such a thing. I investigated Capa, and I found out it was perfectly true." Photographer Robert Capa and Author Steinbeck became great friends...
...Virginia-Harvard football game in Charlottesville this fall, two Virginia students were overheard discussing a nearby Harvard man. "He doesn't look like a communist at all," said one, "except for his share-the - wealth policy toward our whiskey and women-folk...