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...final concerts Pianist Artur Rubinstein, an early admirer of Villa-Lobos. played apiece called Rudepôema ("Savage Poem") which Villa-Lobos had intended to be both a portrait of the pianist and the most difficult piano work ever composed. Whether or not its brilliantly wham-banging measures actually portrayed mild-looking Mr. Rubinstein, Rudepôema sounded like a stumper for any virtuoso...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Choros in Manhattan | 10/28/1940 | See Source »

...last week, U. S. interest in the campaign had taken a noticeable trend away from the five-dollar words of high argument and seemed to be heading toward the two-cent simplicities of Zowie! and Wham! (TIME, Oct. 14). For the first time, a public debater made a direct hit on Wendell Willkie, with a tomato. Many a verbal tomato, many an ancient egg, whizzed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Hubble Bubble | 10/21/1940 | See Source »

Time was called twice while Chief Umpire Bill Summers and Indian Manager Oscar Vitt begged the fans to stop. They were in no mood to stop. Wham! A bushel basket full of tomatoes dropped from the upper grandstand into the Tiger bull pen. Apparently aimed at Schoolboy Rowe, it scored a direct hit on Birdie Tebbetts, alternate catcher, who was chatting with Rowe. Tebbetts was knocked unconscious...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Vegetable Plate | 10/7/1940 | See Source »

...will wham the most home runs-Joe Di Maggio, Jimmy Foxx, Hank Greenberg or Ted Williams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Spring Posers | 4/29/1940 | See Source »

...Wham! banged a rifle. Wham! Wham! The Minute Men of Elverum offered Norway's first interior resistance. Some of the Germans ran into the woods. The busses turned and fled. The Germans fell back south of Hamar and all over Norway hearts rose, resistance hardened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTHERN THEATRE: Tale of Two Brothers | 4/22/1940 | See Source »

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