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...aspiring astronaut almost overplayed the gag. After a London tabloid splashed a picture of the "passport" across half a page, hundreds of people asked for passports and announced their readiness to trade this world for another. Plaintively the society announced that it was all a fake-they were not prepared to sell any round-trip tickets from Liverpool Airport to Mars. They had never even bought any shares in "British Milky Way Space Ships, Inc." Then the scientists went back to what they know how to handle: their telescopes, their rocket motors, and the antiseptic world of interstellar mathematics...
...editors struck one false note by devoting half a page to a two-line fragment of a letter from Thomas Mann, which consists of a polite refusal to submit an article. This might be construed as a gag, except that Mann's name appears on the cover and the table of contents, a summary of his distinctions appears in the Advocate Notes, and the author of the foreword proffers him "Our gracious acknowledgment"--a pretty way to put it--for his (relatively passive) part in making the issue possible. To push a famous name so blatantly is irritating and jarringly...
...Maybe I'm oversimplifying," said the tape recorder calmly, "I get quite a kick out of this oversimplifying gag." Complete silence followed for a minute...
Paramount's sharpest ballyhoo experts descended last week on unsuspecting Bellaire, Ohio (pop. 12,500) to case the town for the year's corniest movie publicity gag. By the studio's reckoning, Bellaire's Mrs. Anne Kuchinka had beaten out more than 250,000 letter-writing contestants in persuading Paramount to stage the opening of its latest Bob Hope picture, My Favorite Spy, in her modest living room. Subject of her winning letter: how her husband paid for his dentistry education by working in a glass factory. On Nov. 27, while searchlights sweep the grateful Ohio...
There was something more than just the ordinary Cantab loss in 1926, however. A Lampoon parody of a Crimson football extra carried a gag story of Tiger Coach Roper's death on the field. Lampy's exuberance helped to bring an already acid relationship with Princeton to a break which lasted eight years...