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...Most suitably labeled of Superman's stations is WHAM, Rochester, N. Y. Others: WOR, Manhattan; WBZ, Boston; WCAU, Philadelphia; WTIC, Hartford; WJAR, Providence; WFBL, Syracuse; WGR, Buffalo; WGY, Schenectady; WGBI, Scranton; WBZ A, Springfield, Mass...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: H-O Superman | 2/26/1940 | See Source »

...sulphur-bottom whale) houses the screw, which is protected below by an extra heavy skeg, a solid metal, keel-like extension of the hull. Purpose: to enable the boat to crunch through driftwood, bounce over logs, hurdle narrow land spits, climb a beach and land a party dry-shod, wham up on a sloping concrete sea wall (the last for no apparent reason except to prove that Eureka can take...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Elcos, Eurekas, Etc. | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...Cinemactress Osa Massen), also blown in from Bali and quite tropical too about Burnett. When that fails, the story just starts running around in circles, from Nassau to Bali to Manhattan. Hero MacMurray is like Poet Kenneth Fearing's hero: wow he woos her, zowie he kisses her, wham he MacMurrays her. Fans fagged out with so much traveling take the producers' word for it that the happy couple have enough energy left to make another trip to Bali for the honeymoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 2, 1939 | 10/2/1939 | See Source »

Last week C. & E. I. got its trustee replacement: tall, handsome Chicago Lawyer Benjamin Wham (rhymes with Tom), writing authority on receiverships and reorganization. His most pressing job (to be shared with C. & E. I.'s crack President C. T. O'Neal): to wind up details of the only Class I reorganization already approved by ICC and Federal courts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PERSONNEL: Spike | 8/14/1939 | See Source »

Smiling wanly, Marathoner Wagner took time out to bow to the handful of onlookers gathered on the fringe of the floodlighted tee, then continued to wham-all through the night and all through the day. Though six out of ten balls landed on the green (131 yards away), he failed to get another ace in 2,289 more attempts. After he had lifted his leaden arms for the 3,094th time, Scoffer Wagner admitted defeat. "After you hit the green, I guess it's just luck," he sighed-discovering by painful experience what most golfers have long known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: It's Just Luck | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

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