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...Angeles backyard one day last week, a panting publicity man led Actress Adele Mara past a cheering throng of Hollywood starlets, gift-laden advertisers and proud neighbors, and out into the bright glare of television lamps and popping flashbulbs. There she smiled winningly at the camera and scooped up a shovelful of light, sandy earth. The occasion: the groundbreaking, Hollywood-style, for Mrs. Ruth Colhoun's private A-bomb shelter...
...least five carriers (including the Philippine Sea, the Leyte, the Princeton), scourging the enemy with napalm (jellied gasoline), rockets, bombs and machine guns. The airmen had to quit at night, but all through the hours of darkness the land and naval guns kept up the barrage under the glare of star shells...
...fourth-prizewinning view of Nine Men in a men's-room mirror was as skillfully done as anything in the show, and as dour. Hirsch had caught the cold light reflected from glass and white tiling, dramatically illuminated the begrimed and weary workmen cleaning up in its glare...
When the atom bomb landed on Allied headquarters in Paris, the boiling waters of the Seine surged into the streets of the stricken city. There appeared to be "nothing else in the world but a crimson-purple glare and sound, deafening, all-embracing, continuing sound ... A great ball, of crimson-purple fire, like a maddening living thing that seemed to be whirling about very rapidly amidst a chaos of falling masonry that seemed to be ... burrowing into [the earth] like a blazing rabbit...
...efforts to clear a wartime buddy charged with murder, Lawyer Montgomery shocks the village of Lesser Hamilton by filching a bobby's bicycle, and outrages the Lord High Sheriff of Milkshire by tossing off a glass of rare old sherry in one gulp. Under the disapproving glare of a wigged and powdered judge (ably played by Felix Aylmer), Montgomery brings