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Encrusted with ice, the Lampoon's Ibis dropped into the office last night with the news that the boys at the Bow Street aviary had renounced their schoolboy pranks and were embarking into the complex scientific world of public opinion research. To prove his point, the faithless Ibis took some proof-sheets from under a wing and read excerpts...
...This bow to an imperfect world came only after intense and elevated debate between those who preferred a faulty beginning to none at all, and those who felt that the Protestant churches of the U.S. would fail in their duty if they compromised with the crude expediency of power politics. Leading the debate were two distinguished antagonists: John Foster Dulles and Charles Clayton Morrison, editor of the Christian Century, who rejected the label of "perfectionism" but perfectly stated the perfectionist case...
Easily the outstanding player on the court was Jaworski, ace Melville guard, who last year broke Hank Lusetti's scoring record. With only 11 markers Wednesday, Jaworski was forced to bow to Jack Clark of the Crimson for scoring honors, but the big guard's play marked him from the opening whistle as the boy to watch...
...always think," said Mrs. Hoare). She won over the snooty servants and even conquered Oxonian Misogynist Professor Carton, who had hitherto believed that all bluestockings wore raincoats and sang in the Bach choir. After 300 such leisurely pages Author Thirkell ties up the loose ends in a neat bow, marries the right people to the right sort, saves the family mansion and forgives a few of the lower classes. To those who can't see the comedy for the snobbery, Author Thirkell remarks tartly: "Snobbishness lies deep at the roots of social life, and there is good reason...
...cave walls-grew vexed when they saw Harg's imitation of their golden rooms. "For the first time in the history of the human race on this planet, men were ready to go to war." The Cro-Magnons wiped out Harg's people, one by one, with bow and arrow, usually without a fight...