Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...addition to previous publicity the Lampoon will broadcast six times during this week. An amplifier has been set up on the Coop building in the Square, so that all men can hear the programs. The schedule includes 15 minutes on the air this evening at 10.15 o'clock from WNAC, a program from WBSO at 7.15 o'clock, Wednesday, May 3; from WHDH at 8 o'clock, Thursday, May 4; from WBSO at 5.15 o'clock, Friday, May 5; from WLOE at 8 o'clock, Saturday, May 6; from WEEI at 7.30 o'clock, Monday...
...letter sent to Governor Ely last night the CRIMSON offered to furnish in place of the codfish, sacred emblem of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Bennie the alligator, late of the Lampoon sanctum. The letter follows in part...
Indulgent parents built the Lampoon building so that Harvard's problem children could have the very nicest playhouse in all Cambridge, with towers and Dutch picture blocks and hidey-holes. They filled the nursery with stuffed goosies, Limpopo crocodiles and other whimsey things. Good children should play "I-Spy-the-Ibis" all by themselves and not go annoying busy grown-ups. If there is any more naughtiness, the funny old birds will be locked up for good in Agassiz Museum with the dead mooses...
Eager to take advantage of the publicity which this unexpected coup offered, the Lampoon treasurer conferred at once with CRIMSON editors to determine what policy they should follow in dealing with the captive, in order to afford the best stories for metropolitan papers. Meantime, efficient telephoning from the Lampoon office had brought two press photographers to the steps of Randolph Hall, where in the drizzling rain they patiently waited for the "encounter" which Lampoon editors had promised, and to which CRIMSON men had courteously been invited. After some delay, caused by the jesters' belief that there were not sufficient reporters...
Meanwhile the treasurer of the Lampoon, anxious to supply the papers with stories for their morning editions, arranged with radio station WBZ in Boston to have Boyd speak over the air in the evening. Upon his refusal to do this in spite of threats, R. J. Walsh '34, Ibis of the Lampoon, undertook to impersonate Boyd, and succeeded in hoaxing the managers of the radio station into allowing him to broadcast...