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Westerby"s 1937 novel Wide Boys Never Work,a story of the criminal underworld before the Second World War, was the earliest published use of the word "wide boy". In 1956 the book was made into the British film Soho Incident (released in the United States as Spin a Dark Web). In 2008 London Books republished Wide Boys Never Work as part of their London Books classics series.
To the British public, a magnum just meant a large bottle of champagne.
However, in the United States of America it could suggest a type of handgun, so it was retitled Champagne for Mother (1947).