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...pores over the record of the case to dig out a clue to another witness. The camera goes back with him, introducing one hoodlum after another. As each tells his own story, the movie backtracks again to picture it. Bogart finds his clue just in time for a wham-bam finish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 12, 1951 | 2/12/1951 | See Source »

...found out in a hurry: "Wham! Our switchboard lit up like a Christmas tree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Faith & Popular | 9/25/1950 | See Source »

...wham-wham-wham in the bunch. (MRS.) A. GORDON WHITNEY Westborough, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, May 16, 1949 | 5/16/1949 | See Source »

...Garden Week, and ancient and hedge-bordered Tidewater estates were open for inspection; bluebonnets bloomed across the sandy distances of west Texas; forsythia blossomed under budding trees from New England to the Northwest, and golden California poppies dotted the fields near Los Angeles. Highways everywhere echoed to the wham-wham-wham of people tearing along at a cunning five miles above the speed limit to stare at flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATION: The Urge | 5/2/1949 | See Source »

...then a lady, consequential for her beauty or for her connections with an administrator of power, secretly showed a few nylons to her closest friends, and it was understood they came from the kindly representative of a war manufacturer. But no 'wham' girls in flesh-colored bathing suits appeared as party accessories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: Alas! | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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