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...turn simply to the closing sentence of the three-page eulogistic history of the 'Poon prepared for this issue by Mike Arlen and Lew Gifford. "Whatever the case however, it has always printed what it wanted to, and, as far as we are concerned, that is about all one could ask for." If "one" is a present or past editor of the Lampoon (and judging by this issue there is a little need to separate the two) then this is a valid generalization. But for the majority of us, Lampy is too concerned with patting his own dogma to worry...
...Dink Stover at Harvard," Michael Arlen adopts the style and, more specifically, the dialogue of the Stover-at-Yale series. In several very clever passages he tosses a few adroit barbs at the CRIMSON...
...Petty Girl (Columbia) is an apocryphal account of how Calendar Artist George Petty awakened to his talent for drawing biologically improbable cheesecake. A freehand farce with some pleasant tunes by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer, the movie is just as implausible as Petty girls-and almost as well-turned and diverting...
...World on a String (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). Not so poignant as Mildred Bailey's classic recording, but even this one proves that the Harold Arlen song is still head & shoulders above most of today's limp romantic ballads...
...longest stories are the worst. They deal with trite subjects: a paunchy middle-aged business man who goes to a costume party in a leopard skin, and a callow youth who seeks adventure in Parses at night. M. J. Arlen wrote both. His style is drab and plot punch is seriously lacking...