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...anniversary issue, Mad conjures up magazines like Caveman's Weekly (sample article: "Is the Stone-Axe the Ultimate Weapon?") and the Pilgrim's Home Journal ("I Should've Kept My Big Mouth Shut," by John Alden), gives advice on how to play golf ("The grip should be about the same as one would use clutching a dead trout"), and quotes some woman-meets-native dialogue from the National Osographic: "Evelyn stepped forward and asked in Swahili, 'What I want to know, and I want you to give me a straight answer to, is-I mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Maddiction | 7/7/1958 | See Source »

...photography and will flip the pages until they come to the generally tolerable House features. The article on Dudley is especially well written, while the Dunster House feature is too gung-ho even for Dunster House. If the reader can get past the authors who have an axe or two to grind and the writers who try too hard to prove they are talented, he will probably thumb his way to the back of the book and the articles on extra-curricular activities...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Three Twenty Two | 5/21/1958 | See Source »

Regarding representation for both sides in the controversy, which concerns proposed control of all-College productions by merged groups, Fox cited the need for a group of "feasible size." He added that no recommendation will be made without discussion by all interested parties. "We have no axe to grind," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Committee to Investigate Control of New Theatre | 2/18/1958 | See Source »

...even thought I was queer--there's not much to Eskimos, as I said. But they believed me. Then I told them about the Epic of Nanook. 'They just discovered it,' I'd say. 'It's really exciting. Seven volumes chipped on huge blocks of ice with a primitive axe blade. Then I'd give them this story about the great migration of Nanook's people. All about how they crossed the Bering Strait on rafts into Siberia and built these huge cities with walls of solid ice. What a civilization--and the girls swallowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Iceman Cometh | 10/15/1957 | See Source »

Congress should try to deal with the budget as it stands, and take upon itself the responsibility of making reductions in keeping with total national interest. Extension aid to allies and potential allies does not serve that interest and should not fall under the axe...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Passing the Buck | 3/15/1957 | See Source »

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