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...explosion. Salomon and Royle went buzz-bomb hunting with a sound recording van for three nights before they got their perfect recording. So realistic was their sound track that, when it was played at Warner's studio and later at the Ministry of Information, building employes ran pell-mell for shelter...
...commonplaces of existence - setting the table, visiting the neighbors, coming home from work - and the furniture of the rooms, the clothes of the women, petting the dog, playing the piano, take on a sultry, Sunday-supplement sexual significance. Her brief, artificial scenes are of sudden quarrels, abrupt endearments, pell-mell melodrama. But her emotional thunderstorms never clear the air after her emotional dog days...
...other flank of the South Pacific front-in New Guinea-U.S. and Australian forces humped towards oft-bombed Salamaua. The Jap's outer defenses along the jungly ridges protecting the Salamaua airdrome suddenly cracked. "All at once," said dispatches, the Japs evacuated their positions and retreated pell-mell to last-ditch defenses around the Salamaua airdrome...
From this point on The Outlaw scurries pell-mell toward the inevitable day when Billy and Rio ride off astride Red, the horse, into the phoniest Hollywood sunset yet photographed...
While units of the British armor hacked and widened the breach, advance units roared on, swung north to cut off the columns of the Afrika Korps retreating pell mell along the coast. Abandoned by their allies, left stranded in the south, Italian divisions fought hopelessly, finally quit (see p. 31). The British did not even bother to round them up. Their main objective was the Afrika Korps...