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Russia's leading humor magazine, Krokodil, has awarded the Lampoon a perpetual subscription and the right to call itself "progressive." The Lampoon is Harvard's only humor magazine...
...presentation took place in Moscow on August 25, when the Lampoon's Culinator (i.e. chief cook) Elling Eide '57 visited the Krokodil offices to present them with a scroll and a perpetual subscription to the Lampoon. Eide claims that the Russians were "overjoyed...
...scroll said, ". . . laughter, in time, can form the basis for a better mutual understanding." The editors of Krokodil thought that a recent article decrying "Rock and Roll" was especially good as it obviously decried "Art for Art's sake." This, they added, is "progressive." Lampoon poetry was hailed by the Soviets for its "realistic attitude...
...entire back page of the September 30 "Krokodil" is devoted to color cartoons about Harvard, all aimed in the same direction. One entitled "Mathematics" shows a drill sergeant shouting "one, two, one, two" at a group of students carrying rifles...
...Krokodil" conception of geography at Harvard consists of a group of men standing around while a general sticks maps marked "US" into a map of the world. "Law" depiets a lynching, while in "Literature," a group of students are shown throwing books by Goethe, Dreiser, Tolstoy, and Howard Fast into a fire...