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Lampy drew in its horns in a hurry last night and begged forgiveness for its most recent misdeed--calling Leila Ernst the biggest movie flop of 1940--when confronted with the irate objections of a certain mysterious "Frederick Ernst" 'who claimed, via telephone, to be the girl's father...
...known at the CRIMSON office that 'Mr. Ernst" was an impostor. In addition, full details of the phone conversation in which Lampy reneged on its smear of Miss Ernst are in the CRIMSON's possession...
...Honest, we didn't mean it, Mr. Ernst-we Lampoon fellows don't mean anything we say," was how reviewer Whitman Hobbs '41 explained his bestowal of "least likely to succeed" honors on Leila...
...were just trying to be funny, and personally I think Leila Ernst is almost sure of making a big hit in Hollywood," Hobbs declared when pressed by the impostor for an apology, adding that he "wanted the whole mess kept in strict confidence between you and the Lampoon...
Servants of the Bellows, "to be blown into office annually unless blown out," are High Wind (President) William Rumboll of Ernst, Berg & Cia.; Whirlwinds (Secretaries) George Ward and Alan Murray, both of London & South American Investment Trust; Receiver of Windfalls (Treasurer) and Keeper of the Windbag (Assistant Treasurer) Colin Shearer and George Collins, respectively...