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...bullet got Wine in the head while he was still at his gun. A 20-mm. shell laid open the skipper's cheek. The nose gunner came back to help but a bullet hit the generator and it exploded and he died in the arms of Sergeant Howard Collett. Collett got out his Bible and began to read out loud: 'God so loved the world, that He gave . . .' Then a bullet hit Collett in the stomach...
...parts of its socket, layer upon layer, until all that remains is bare bone. The book consists of five-color transparencies printed on heavy Cellophane and laid on one another in perfect register. On the top Cellophane page appears a serene brown eye, surrounded by part of a nose, cheek and forehead. Turning the page pulls the skin off. Its under side shows on the back of the page, the skinless eye appears on the page following...
Hopkins fights free-for-all, no holds barred. She kicks 'em when they're down, too. Davis--intelligent, self-denying Bette--turns the other cheek every time except one. (Anyone who is particularly interested in discovering how many times Bette muffed that one scene for the pleasure of the retakes is advised to address one of our more widely informed Hollywood experts...
...lonely Alpine village the French mountaineers had ceased to speak of Bastineau. Some said he was "missing," some said he was dead. The cold, sphinxlike stranger with a dueling scar on his cheek (he said he was Swiss, called him self de Vaudois) was also curious about Bastineau. He wondered why so many peasants were knitting mittens with an identical, peculiar pattern; why peasants came from miles around to lay food on a lonely mountain shrine; why the old cure's sermons were almost unintelligible to strangers. Whenever Fenton started up the mountains in search of Bastineau, she found...
Tongue in cheek, the President asked his press conference: Had anything happened at home while he was away? The answer was a roar of laughter...