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...left wing struck first, then the nose, which broke off and threw the pilot and copilot clear. The rest of the plane hurtled on, scattering its guts, plowing a deep rut in the mushy land. Watchers on Rineanna heard a thunderous crash as the Star hit, saw the flare of the gasoline.fire reach high into the night...
Reputedly Hollywood's top-salaried scenarist, Ben Heeht, has turned out both his money's worth and yours in the slick, competent seript of "Notorious." Ingrid Bergman and Cary Grant act with a skill that at times flare into brilliance, and the whole thing, being a spy story, is enhanced on end by Alfred Hitchcock's direction...
...minutes later they knew that the plane would never cross the ocean. On a 1,600-foot hill, seven miles away, a fire billowed up silently and burned there as brilliantly as a signal flare...
...come along [TIME, Aug. 5] and add the possibility of a flare-up of the sun vaporizing the world. Here, I draw the line...
...nova-like flare-up of the sun might happen tomorrow." If it did, the sunny side of the earth would be burned to a crisp in half an hour, the oceans would boil away in live steam. Within a few days the world would be vapor...