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| Merman by Al Hirschfeld |
“Each day at the beach, Harold mostly absent, Gore diverted
himself with Ethel Merman, the Broadway star with the stentorian singing voice ‘who
was quite intrigued with the idea of her voice resounding in a monastery. She
has,' he wrote to Pat Crocker, ‘very likely the worst figure of any woman in
the world but she is amusing and loves to discuss things in terms of male
genitalia. We got on quite well and she can’t wait to read (his forthcoming
novel ‘The City and the Pillar’). ‘Don’t read much but love books about homos,’
she said.”
— “Gore Vidal: A Biography” by Fred Kaplan
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