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...special B.U. release: "A gigantic bean pot . . . was unearthed on the banks of the Charles River yesterday . . . Prof. Albert Morris . . . expert on anthropology . . . declared that the bean pot was definitely authentic and 'at least 50 years old . . .' " Following the sound rule of never trying to make a chump of a city editor, Wood also candidly tipped the city desks that it was just a polite hoax...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Old Bean Pot | 10/23/1950 | See Source »

...dope or a dumbski or a quisby or a mullethead, that won't be your cue to poke his snoot or even yell for the cops. Instead . . . you should square off and announce with dignity and eloquence that your antagonist is, forsooth, a beanhead, a booby, a chump, a dingbat, a flumadiddy, a filbert, a peanutbrain, a rednecked slob, a rumdum, a stupe, a tinpot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS .& MORALS: Americana, Dec. 20, 1948 | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

...from Brooklyn (Goldwyn-RKO Radio) is an elaborate musical retake of Harold Lloyd's old chump-to-champ hit, The Milky Way (1936), starring ebullient Danny Kaye as a meek milkman. At picture's start, Danny's nag passes out between the shafts. Danny, who has to pull Sam Goldwyn's rather cumbrous vehicle practically unaided, also works like a horse. He delivers the laughs, but they can't drown out a good deal of creaking, clanking and whiffling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 22, 1946 | 4/22/1946 | See Source »

...perky London barber who wins ?8,500 in a sweepstakes, decides to give his money to the poor, begins by bringing home a streetwalker and a thief. From there on the cynic and ironist in Maugham have a field day. Sheppey, his family feels sure, must be off his chump. The harlot and the thief, bored stiff by the good life, scamper back to the bad one. For a final joker, Maugham shows that the exemplary Sheppey really is sick: he has been having visions of a strange woman, who turns out to be Death and comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, May 1, 1944 | 5/1/1944 | See Source »

Curt, concise, clear summary of election results: Chump met Champ...

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

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