Word: overheards
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...programming had been interrupted briefly with a pattern of color bars. It was apparently the work of the same person; thus it seemed the culprit had access to the facility at the same time on both nights. Another important tip came from an accountant vacationing in Florida who had overheard a revealing conversation about Captain Midnight at a pay phone. He took down the caller's license-plate number and gave it to the authorities. The auto was linked to MacDougall...
...OTHER DAY at lunch, as I sat there trying to figure out what kind of sea creatures, if any, went into making my seafood flakes, I overheard someone saying he'd figured out that every lecture at Harvard costs $35 per student...
...pressured by the Soviets, asked the same question of the U.S. team. Then the Soviets requested a phone line and a typewriter in the American press center, wherever it might be. Pravda, TASS, Izvestiya and the other Soviet outlets undoubtedly would fill and color their summit coverage with the overheard irreverences of American correspondents chortling over Reagan's malapropisms, Nancy's dresses and Secretary of State George Shultz's tennis. That's the lingo of freedom that Soviet eavesdroppers love to distort. The U.S. team, wise in the ways of media, suggested the Soviets give them similar privileges. The issue...
Conversation overheard at breakfast...
...long as one breathes," says an obscure Yiddish poet in one of these tales, and he obviously speaks for his author as well as for all the compulsive monologists who continue to pop up in and then dominate Singer's short stories. "Now listen," commands Aunt Yentl, who is overheard telling three different anecdotes, and only the dull or the terminally uninterested could possibly disobey...