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...radio business has a lot of fun gagging about Buick's expensive sponsorship of Joe Louis' recent sweet but short fights. Radio Jester Fred Allen, who sells Ipana tooth paste and other Bristol-Myers nostrums, last week bested the bunch by cracking: "I hear if his fights get any shorter the broadcasts will be sponsored by Minit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Crack | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Jester Allen might have considered another Bristol-Myers product, "Yitalis, and the 60-r,econd workout...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Crack | 2/20/1939 | See Source »

...Reed '40 and Ibis is Henry R. Hayes, Jr. '40. Retiring president William L. Calfee '39 returned from a trip to New York and revealed that Lampy's plan for an eastern college comic conference to be held next Wednesday and Thursday is moving smoothly. Calfee found the Columbia Jester "especially in favor" of the proposal; the Columbians will send "at least" three delegates, he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Lampoon, Funny Magazine, Announces More Officers | 12/9/1938 | See Source »

...fans eagerly awaited today's clash between the CRIMSON and the Lampoon, Coach Jester of the funnymen announced that he had made drastic changes in his line-up. Utrid, Cuddlepoop, Cabot, and Lowell have been added to the roster, and Aloysius God has been procured for mound duty...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FELLER, GOD ON MOUND TODAY AS LEGITS, ILLEGITS CLASH | 5/19/1938 | See Source »

...when an entirely different person walks about more or less in his likeness, although the making him out as a happy-go-lucky experimenter does strike close to home. Horse-laughs evoked at the expense of Cordell Hull and Chief Justice Hughes, the one docked out as an idiotic jester and the other as a dwarfish lecher, don't deserve to be called even crude. Mr. Kaufman should have seen that some people are not subject to ridicule, and that entire has to be appropriate. Depicting the Supreme Court, moreever, as a gang of brainless no-men, takes most...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 10/18/1937 | See Source »

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