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That night the Generalissimo gave a dinner for the Ambassador; it was an impressively cordial affair. Only one mishap marred the occasion. A photographer's flash bulb exploded within a foot of T. V. Soong's ear. Fragments of glass showered his shoulder. He made a face, then swiftly regained his composure. The Generalissimo did not bat an eyelash. Next day the Chungking press unanimously agreed that "Hurley is a friend of China...
...dozens of planes are overhead, P-51s, P-38s, B-25s and P-40s. The first pursuit peels off. The bomb lets go and an orange flash and a grey puff of smoke blossom out. A few seconds later the sound reaches us-whambo-and the air rocks. The others follow in line, one after the other-flash, puff, whambo; flash, puff, whambo-until the last plane turns away...
...November 1943 the U.S. freighter Volunteer, crammed with explosives, lay at anchor in Halifax Harbor. Suddenly she caught fire. If she blew up, she would probably blow up a good deal of Halifax too. At first her crew fought the flames with extinguishers, finally broke wireless silence to flash an S O S. The Navy's harbor master, Commander (now Captain) Owen Robertson, rushed aboard with a special crew. But still the fire gained...
Outwardly there was little splash or glitter-few limousines or evening clothes, and a wartime, 6:30 curtain. But tickets were priced above rubies, the lobbies were a mass of craning necks and exploding flash bulbs. Last week Alfred Lunt & Lynn Fontanne gave London one of its biggest first nights since the war began...
...first camera was an aluminum-cased affair which was taken to the bottom by iron ballast attached to a block of rock salt. An extending "trigger" rod stopped the camera at the correct height above the bottom for proper focus, and in doing so automatically set off a flash bulb and snapped the shutter. When the salt dissolved, the camera was freed from the ballast and bobbed to the surface...