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After a sneak preview RKO decided that this ending was a squirm-inducer. Producer David Hempstead tinkered and cut. Miss Rogers said that patchwork was no good. So a new ending was contrived in which Miss Rogers got her bad news, bit her lip, marched off bravely to work. They were wrestling with a third version when a letter came from a war widow who had seen the sneak preview. Miss Rogers, wrote the widow, had put into words exactly what she had felt and been unable to say in all the months since her husband was killed. The first...
...shell hit our right horizontal stabilizer. Then some more hit the right wing and made a patchwork out of it. ... By this time . . . flak had knocked out our No. 2 engine...
...find out how U.S. doctors and civilians are taking it, TIME queried correspondents in medium-sized towns from coast to coast, got replies as varied as a patchwork quilt...
...book of the same name (TIME, May 5, 1941), the picture's somewhat redundant purpose is to make Americans madder at the Japs than they are anyhow. But just as human endurance has its limits, so does human credulity: the picture defeats its own purpose. Its grueling patchwork of cinematrocities is likely to make most cinemaddicts as mad at the film as at the Japanese...
...coast of France seemed to move toward us. Now it was below, a brown and green patchwork. Our Spitfire escorts had come as far as their gas tanks would permit. A moment after they left, the first attack came. On the intercommunication system a cool voice said into our headphones: "Enemy fighter at eleven o'clock...