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After Jane kills the blackmailer, Bill first knocks out the attendant at a parking lot, then the owner of a car which he needs to make a getaway. With the unconscious driver in the seat beside him, Bill runs into a bicyclist, and police give chase. When the police car draws alongside, Bill swerves his car into it, wrecks his own to boot. Jane is hurt, the police unconscious, Bill kills the car owner (so the police will blame him for hitting the cyclist), carries Jane, her face so disfigured that she is safe from recognition, to a hospital...
...Baxter cellar. They aid Atlas the Mental Giant in a staggering plan to divide up the postwar world ("xVrP2+a" ∆x2y >13 It comes out wrong"). They foil black-market desperados through O'Malley's pretended attempt to repair the carburetor of the getaway...
...prisoners had tried a mass escape, that 14 had made good their getaway, 15 had been recaptured, 47 shot to death, by pursuing Gestapomen and soldiers...
London caught its longest air raid in many months, as German planes whisked over the city for an hour. The Nazis were using their new tactics, approaching at high altitude, dumping their bombs indiscriminately, then diving to build up maximum speed for the getaway. Bomb loads ran heavily to incendiaries, presumably to start many scattered fires, keep the air-raid wardens and firefighters on the run. London's thundering gun-and-rocket barrage shot down at least eight raiders out of an estimated 80. That same night, more than 1,000 R.A.F. bombers gave Berlin 2,800 tons...
Kelly volunteered once more, this time to cover the retreat. As the others left, they saw him at a window, methodically loading and firing a bazooka to slow up the foe. When he made his own getaway he slid down a hill, found an abandoned 37-mm. antitank gun, served and fired that at the enemy positions until he had used up the shells on hand. Then he withdrew in good order, eventually rejoined his own outfit. Said Kelly...