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...current issue of the Lampoon has touches of pathos, murkiness, and banality; everything, in fact, except humor. Except for the traditional introductory poem there is almost nothing in the issue written with a gloss of genuine with, a bad state of affairs for what is ostensibly a humour magazine. Perhaps its crusading editors, saddened by the results of the recent elections, decided that frivolity would be out of place in the November issue; at any rate the whole magazine has a decidedly sombre tone...
...have gone out in their frail boats to hunt the potheads, which pursue squid into Trinity Bay. It was a haphazard venture until Norwegian Captain Iversen settled near Dildo in 1946 and opened a factory to render blubber and process the greasy meat prized by mink ranchers for the gloss it gives to the animal fur. To increase the whale catch, he raised money for the Arctic Skipper and a sister ship, Arctic Venture, to go farther out into the bay and herd more potheads shoreward...
...have imagined several years ago. In fact, a comparison of the seven years following World War 1, when glibness and myopia swept the country, and the years since 1945, when the only reminder of the bad old days is the Scnate's nortorious Class of '46, adds a shinier gloss to what few blessings there...
There is more to that gloss than the sort of shoe polish applied during the twenties under the name of Normaley. And despite the uncertainties and vigorous predictions of doom hatched by a limited war, this glimmer gives a liberal education more meaning and purpose. At least, those who spend four years here studying, seeking agreement on broad issues without resort to staves or oratorical orgies, can take hope from it that the wall separating them from the world at large is not so thick as it seems...
...from Tunkhanock, Pa., and Exeter, Delmar Leighton was forced to leave in his sophomore years for service in France. After discharge, he matriculated for six months and gained a degree in 1919. The first job he took was in a textile mill in Rhode Island, putting a gloss on cloth. Next he tried selling Addressograph machines, but soon hied back to Cambridge and the Business School...