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...most of the money, emerged with a $40,000 loss. Brewster, who insisted that sometimes he really walked the horses, somehow came out with a $44,000 profit. The Brewster-Newell accounts still have not been finally settled because of an argument about the disposition of a mare named Whang Bang. Asked Committee Chairman John McClellan: "Is this a kind of whang-bang transaction?" Replied Frank Brewster: "She was a whang-bang mare. She won 40,000-some dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cash on the Whang Bang | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

...however, argued that Insurance Man Newell had been much whang-banged in his dealings with Brewster. Reason: the Teamsters' Western Conference, under Frank Brewster, had made Newell the broker and consultant for its health and welfare fund. The annual profit to Newell...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Cash on the Whang Bang | 4/1/1957 | See Source »

Speakers for a special symposium that night in Agassiz Theatre will be Alice Johnson Brown, Vera Micheles Dean, Ruth Ayres Given, Sybil Alice Stone, and Shia-Chen Whang...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Activities Fill Commencement Week | 6/14/1950 | See Source »

...Flying Saucers have been reported over China, but we have been troubled by Flying Thudwunks-or, as the Chinese call them, Celestial Whang-bongs. Our one-eyed wash coolie, Yeh, sighted an unusual bright green Thudwunk two evenings ago whizzing across the thatched roofs of the native village next door to our house on Columbia Road-or, as the Chinese call it, Pan-yu Lu-and has become, as a result, a neighborhood hero...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jul. 21, 1947 | 7/21/1947 | See Source »

...truth is in plain old Texas language that the American people finally, and definitely, have their bellies full of this New Deal Communist conglomeration and all their whang-brained fanatical fancies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

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