]At a railroad crossing near a train station, the Boy concealed himself behind the back of a freight train car to avoid being spotted and was almost squashed when another car backed up and attached itself.He then took ahold of Clark, taunted: "You always wanted to fly, Kent," and tossed him into an hydraulic car crusher, where it flattened him.An elderly, wrinkled associate-colleague, Professor La Touche (D""Arcy Corrigan) is cautioned by David""s assistant and stiff fiancee Miss Alice Swallow (Virginia Walker) to be quiet: "Shhhhh, Dr.That has not been part of my teaching.We have sought to make ourselves worthy and let acclaim come when it would.But to be foremost in battle is a virtue not o be despised.I believe it will be a quick war, that there will be few losses.But if losses there must be, then let us remember he Latin phrase which must have come to the lips of many a Roman when he stood embattled in a foreign land: ""Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.