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With the script thus carefully prepared, Director Litvak, a notoriously slow worker, was able to whizz along with almost no changes in filming (a Hollywood record), finishing some three weeks ahead of schedule. Whenever two or three reels could be got in a can, the film was rushed to Hal Wallis, who sat with a dictaphone in front of him, spouting such corrections as "Take out the noise when she blows the lamp out"; "Get a new voice for the old man roasting apples"; "See if you haven't another angle where Davis doesn't yank the little...
...building's base. When a dog stopped to relieve himself, an electric current would pass up the stream, shock the dog and dissuade him from repeating his act. There was no question of the novelty of that. Scrupulous patent attorneys try to dissuade the concocters of such whizz-bangs from wasting their money on patents...
...December to May). Its 60 miles of varied trails (including daredevil Nose Dive) are enough for two weeks' skiing without duplication. Other famed Eastern trails for experts: Mt. Greylock's Thunderbolt, steepest of the 16 downhill trails in the Berkshires; Suicide Six, near Woodstock, Vt., where schussnuts whizz down its 1,800 feet in less than 60 seconds; Tuckerman's Ravine, a natural snow bowl near the top of Mt. Washington, nearest approach to an Alpine ski run east of the Rockies...
...whizz-bangs they roar...
...travelers whizz over the surface of their country, picking up such information as they can get from signboards, gasoline station attendants, road maps, Chamber of Commerce handouts. They race past the biggest factories on earth, rarely pausing to wonder what is made in them. They look out across scenery unparalleled, but only occasionally know the names of the mountain peaks or yawning canyons that take their breath away. They sail through little towns where battles have been fought, insurrections planned, U. S. history made, but usually see only what lies beside the highway as they watch for crossroads and glance...