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After Tetlow beat Princeton star Joe Loughran in the 500 freestyle in their second encounter of the afternoon, I overheard a conversation between Loughran and a teammate as they stood right beneath my seat at the scorers' table. "They're amazing," Loughran said about the race and the 67-30 scoring bulge in Harvard's favor. "Yeah," the other swimmer muttered. "I wish they would send them all back where they came from...
...really act. All he could do, so this position goes, was to be Bogart. The African Queen, showing at the Welles, certainly debunks the theory. His performance in John Huston's film of James Agee's screenplay of C.S. Forrester's novel almost rivals Katherine Hepburn's I overheard an unscrupulous wretch in the dining hall trying to start a rumor that the novel was actually by Stephen Foster, and was originally called Mississippi Queen, and started out with a man dying of Bayou fever, and that Bogart's ship was the Monitor...
...fashion was, of course, morning suits for all. Once, in the 1890s, when a young attorney showed up in "street clothes," Justice Horace Gray was overheard growling, "Who is that beast who dares to come in here with a gray coat?" In recent years, a dark business suit has become acceptable, though the Solicitor General and his male staff members still represent the U.S. in cutaways and striped trousers. As for Deputy Solicitor General Jewel Lafontant, she has designed a cutaway-inspired jacket and striped skirt...
When Dae Jung Kim, a South Korean politician living in Japan, was Shanghaied from a crowded hotel in downtown Tokyo, his friends were convinced that they had seen the last of him. Kim's own hopes were dashed at one point when he overheard his abductors discuss the voracity of sharks as he lay in a ship, his wrists and ankles weighed down for quick immersion. As it turned out, a bruised but very much alive Kim resurfaced near his home in Seoul last week as mysteriously as he had disappeared five days earlier, to tell a tale straight...
...Nixon appointee who contributed $29,000 to Republicans last year, De Roulet, 47, was no stickler for diplomatic decorum. He liked to vent his conservative views in pithy asides, and several times was overheard referring to islanders as niggers. "He loved dogs more than humans," a Jamaican official said, recalling that for the return of one of his lost pets (a mongrel dog) the ambassador once offered $500, which is more than many Jamaicans earn in a year. De Roulet rattled Jamaicans even more by telling a Rotary Club lunch gathering that the visa section of his embassy...