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...HARVARD LAMPOON has recently undergone a changing of the guard while, almost simultaneously, a new magazine (founded by Poon alumni), The National Lampoon, has made its debut across the country with an initial circulation of 500.000. Martin H. Kaplan heads the local Lampoon's New Regime and has made no bones about the new Jewish flavor at the Poon in his Spring Issue entitled "The Nineteen Seventy Schmeventy Number...
...Ninety-seventy, nineteen-schmeventy.' he [Ibis] sighed." not unaware of the ethnic implications of the syntactical construction he had chosen.'" The Spring Issue is better than usual, perhaps because most of the pieces were written by novice Poonies, who haven't yet been trapped by the traditional, overly esoteric Lampoon style...
Except for one article set in type large enough for the elderly, the Spring Issue's lay-out is attractive, with competent art work throughout. The colorful cover picture of the Jester hanging outside the Lampoon castle is a particularly fine display of Lampoon graphics. Jeffrey M. Lowenfals, the new head of the business board, brought in a lot of juicy ads and proved his sense of taste by running an advertisement for dildos...
...NATIONAL LAMPOON, in its April debut, did not fare nearly as well as the first issue of Kaplan's local group. Three Lampoon legends, Douglas C. Kenney, Henry N. Beard, and Robert K. Hoffman, had done a lot of work on the nationally distributed parodies of Playboy, Life. and Time magazines. The financial success of these ventures evidently went to their heads, and they decided to try their own national monthly using the Lampoon name...
...reason is that blacks are doing ber of the CRIMSON Editorial Board, and Ernest Wilson '70, a Lampoon staffer, have recently obtained a $10,000 grant to revive an on-again, off-again black publication...