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Collegiate editors have been stealing such gags-and even worse ones-from each other since the 1870s, when the Lampoon and Yale Record were born. These college magazines reached a heyheyday in the hip-flasked, short-skirted '20s, when John Held Jr.'s flat-chested flappers were all the rage and Judge and the old Life were the thing to copy. The jokes had not changed much since, but the imitative style had. In the depression, many became introspective, proletarian, or both; others took to aping Esquire and got suppressed for it. This year most campus editors seemed...
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