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...tank trucks. They laid an asbestos blanket over Billy who crouched down on the seat, told his rescuers nonchalantly: "Take it easy." Then a water truck ran dry, and firemen watched helplessly as flames licked at Billy. The steel cab began to glow dull red, and Billy began to scream. He writhed under the scorching heat, begged someone to shoot him. "I don't want to go out this way," he cried. The skin on Billy's back was raw and burned dead-white...
...Norma's last desperate hope. But Emory was unmoved. Into the telephone, he said: "I'm sorry, Mother, for what I'm about to do. Please forgive me." Over the wire leading into the Manhattan apartment she had never seen, Mrs. Thomas heard her daughter scream, and the scream broken by the sharp sound of shouts and shots. In Hollywood, Mrs. Thomas fainted. When she came to, she hurriedly telephoned for help from the New York police...
Cornwall's huntsmen stiffened in their saddles. "I never heard a hunted fox scream in my life," snorted Captain George Percival Williams, Master of the Four Burrow Hunt. Captain Williams stoutly denied that the fox was alive when the hounds touched it. "I was blowing my horn and everybody was making a devil of a row." Then he sued the vicar for libel. In court, Mr. Craven-Sands apologized to Captain Williams; he said that he had been wrong in believing that the fox was alive when thrown to the hounds. Mr. Gilbert Beyfus, counsel for Captain Williams, said...
...candles burning at both ends . . . and a crucifix in the center . . . [The Germans] were informed or led to believe that they were being tried by Americans for violations of international law. At the other end of the table would be the prosecutor, who would read the charges, yell and scream at these 18-and 20-year-old plaintiffs and attempt to force confessions from them...
Hollywood, certainly not the sanest community on earth, has managed to turn out an excellent movie about insanity. The Snake Pit (20th Century-Fox), starring Olivia de Havilland, is not a great work of cinematic art. It is, like the frightening scream from Miss de Havilland which rattles its sound track, an honest, accurate and dramatically powerful echo of certain ugly facts of modern life. It does what Hollywood has rarely done before: look harsh reality in the eye. Backed by enthusiastic reviews and smash box-office success in two big cities, The Snake Pit will be released next month...