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Word: chumps (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Curt, concise, clear summary of election results: Chump met Champ...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 2, 1940 | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...apologia to scores of young hopefuls whom Hollywood calls west for screen tests each year only to send most of them home again. But Hollywood gets so interested in itself it forgets to apologize. More exciting to most cinemaddicts than the plot about the waitress (Linda Darnell) and the chump football hero (John Payne) who click before the cameras will be the game of identifying the Hollywood counterparts of the wicked casting director (Donald Meek), the actor who has superannuated into a talent scout (Roland Young). In the headstrong, somewhat brassy producer (William Gargan), who can't be separated...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 5/20/1940 | See Source »

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