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...considers Jean Borotra the game's greatest showman and most expert faker. The best player: Don Budge, who had "no subtlety, no finesse, little grace and practically no variety to his game, but for hitting power-Wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Catty Reminiscences | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

There are just enough weak spots in the program, and inexperienced people in the cast, to prevent Make Mine Manhattan from being a wow. The cast as a whole is not terribly adroit, but it has the conceivably greater virtue of being enormously likable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Jan. 26, 1948 | 1/26/1948 | See Source »

...wow he died as wow he lived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Come Back a Man | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...John Jacob Astor dazzled Manhattan's El Morocco nightclub by exhibiting Wow-wow, her Chihuahua, in a new look. Wow-wow-a male-had a diamond ring on each paw and a sapphire choker around his innocent neck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 15, 1947 | 12/15/1947 | See Source »

...parlor wit who thinks of radio as a parlor instrument ("some homes got them next to toilets"). But he seems hard-pressed to transport the highball-and-cigaret intimacy of his friends' living rooms into the U.S. parlor. His cement-mixer voice strains with eagerness to wow the audience. And while most of his parodies and songs are funny, the jokes which string them together sometimes clank (sample: "As for personal habits ... I ain't got none...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Partygoers1 Wit | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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