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This summer is the Lampoon's balmiest yet. Last month the magazine published its Sunday Newspaper Parody, an eight-section, $4.95 send-up of Middle American journalism that is starting to hit trade-paperback bestseller lists. This week the magazine's first film venture, a college satire titled National Lampoon's Animal House, opens in 600 theaters nationwide. Bolstered by good reviews and Star, John Belushi, the movie is already playing to smash business in New York City and should return a hefty profit on its modest $2.7 million production cost...
...swimming party; the Hindenburg, with a swastika painted on its tail, floating peacefully between the skyscrapers of Manhattan; Los Angeles, dawdling about growing, still a transposed prairie town set down in the middle of an antic oasis. There are also, intercut with fact, many of the best and balmiest fictions of the time: James Cagney, ever brash and streetwise, pushing mugs around; King Kong poking his head up through the el tracks...
...Hindemith: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1, 2 and 3 (Glenn Gould; Columbia; $5.98). It is now a decade since the happy hypochondriac of music abandoned the recital stage to devote his life to producing radio documentaries in his native Canada, staying warm (he still wears sweaters and mufflers on the balmiest days) and, fortunately for the rest of the world, continuing to make some of the finest, most original and pleasantly outrageous recordings...
Long-Drawn Ordeal. Even an idyllic setting, one of the balmiest Paris springtimes in memory, and France's justly famed cuisine may do little to palliate what?judging from the seemingly interminable preliminaries?is likely to be a depressing, long-drawn ordeal...
...long, soggy peninsula where Ponce de Leon once sought the fountain of youth and Wilson Mizner in the 19203 ordained his palaces of pleasure, winds of change are stirring with gale force. Florida, ending one of its balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union...