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...course, no matter how carefully we count the words in our stories, some fail to fit the columns of the magazine when they are cast in actual metal. And so, sandwiched in between the stories, the Teletype-setters flash instructions for changes in copy, usually in a sort of verbal gibberish: For example, on page 36 of this issue...
...Flash. In Cleveland, the Ohio Agricultural Experimental Station unblushingly announced that insects stop for red lights...
...small, the bombing of Berlin was no flash in the pan. The Russians were back over German-held territory night after night; they had slammed Warsaw, Stettin, Danzig, Königsberg and Budapest before the week...
...bomb arched earthward in a wide parabola. Twenty-six seconds passed. At last the men in the tower saw it strike the target, saw a puny, firecracker flash of flame, followed by a pipe-smoker's puff of smoke. An instant later came hell. The ground erupted like a volcano. A halo of yellow flame flared from the spot. Even from a mile away it was blinding. Black smoke, blasted wood, little trees poured upward for a hundred feet, like a Niagara running backward...
Since the "Maltese Falcon" every Humphrey Bogart picture has been a bit of an anticlimax, in spite of the fact that they've all been better-than-average gangster movies. "The Big Shot" is no exception to this rule. Getting off to a bad start with rather a trite flash-back, it soon picks up speed in telling its non-too-original story of a gangster who tries to go straight...