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...British had scarcely announced the formation of super-tough raiding forces to be known as Commandos (TIME, Oct. 20) when the Commando legends began to fly. Last week London reported a wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Battlefronts: BATTLE OF BRITAIN: Goring's Narrow Escape | 11/10/1941 | See Source »

...muted-trumpet statement of Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man led into a tricky blues section: four saxophones playing over pizzicato plunk-plunks in the strings. The wow-finale brought back Ol' Man River for full symphony orchestra plus saxo phones, harmonica, banjo, guitar, organ, glockenspiel, tom-toms, bones, vibraphone, xylophone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Show Boat in Cleveland | 11/3/1941 | See Source »

This half-hour mock air raid furnished the wow-at-the-finish of the Fifth Annual Police Show last week in Manhattan's Madison Square Garden. It also scared the whey out of the 50,000-odd New Yorkers who bought tickets to it. The cast consisted of more than 700 New York cops and units from the city's new corps of 100,000 air-raid wardens. Sound effects were rebroadcast British recordings of one of last September's air blitzes, described by the excited cop announcer as "the London terrible bombings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HOME FRONT: Terrible Bombings | 10/6/1941 | See Source »

First conversation, an obbligato to a program of Bing Crosby records, was between two Jersey City men-about-town, who dwelt on the previous night's amours. Said one: "So everything was all right, eh?" Said the other: "Wow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Radio, Sep. 29, 1941 | 9/29/1941 | See Source »

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

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poetry, Feb. 17, 1941 | 2/17/1941 | See Source »

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