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...Johnson won a Harvard Lampoon citation for the second year running. Last year he shared Worst Discovery honors with Frank Sinatra; now the Cantabrigian funnymen acclaimed his acting in Thrill of a Romance as the year's Worst Single Performance (male). Eddie Bracken was chosen Most Unamusing Comedian. Oscar Winner Joan Crawford, 38, was acclaimed Oldest Actress, with Joan Bennett, 36, getting honorable mention...
Most of the history of the "feud" with the Ibisters, the Birdmen, (occasionally called the Funnymen), more vulgarly referred to as Lampoon editors, has passed on with the times, or else was pure imagination to start with. Year after year, a perusal of springtime Crimsons reveals, the Poon was mortgaged or sold or taken over by their trustees or by the Crimson. For no less than 24 years, the 'Poon has been unable to vary their losing score in the annual baseball game from the inevitable...
...overlooking the street, on a dais where a coutouriére's models once paraded. Silverman fed items to fledgling Gossip Walter Winchell, made knowing muggs out of Jack Lait (now editor of Hearst's New York Mirror) and Columnist Louis Sobol, bought pieces from Quentin Reynolds, Funnymen Fred Allen, Joe Laurie Jr., Milton Berle. As show business became big business and Variety grew, he covered radio and the "niteries," added a Hollywood daily edition and bureaus in London and Paris, picked up scores of stringers in the U.S. and abroad...
This time the 'Poonsters suspected fraud. They hastened to cash both checks. Their faith in humanity was restored, but the only mail the hapless lass ever received from the funnymen was cancelled check stubs...
...Poonsters, however, have not been idle in their frantic efforts to foil the oncoming CRIMSON tide. Midnight in the Bow Street aviary has been the scene for oil burning as the board of ibitors plotted their revenge. Coming up with a plan they hope will succeed, the funnymen have spent the past week drafting strong arm plug uglies into their organization in an effort to crowd the roster with big time sluggers