Word: lampooner
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...Spring, the Lampoon held a house warming in its Mt. Auburn Street castle, complete with an English bar room dismantled, transported, and reconstructed for 'Poonie purposes...
...been a lot of haggling about whether Princeton really deserved as important a place as Yale on the Crimson's fall schedule, but the straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Harvard Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing in the mud, proclaiming "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton." And to cap it off, at half time the 'Poonies put out a fake CRIMSON headlined "BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD." There...
...feelings were pretty generally forgotten by 1934, and the football series sprang up again for keeps. Princeton won, incidentally, by 19 to 0. But if Princeton-Harvard bitterness had subsided, the Lampoon had not. Somewhat later in the Class of 1937's sophomore year, the 'Poon put out its notorious "Esquire" issue, whose contents led the University to shut down the Lampoon building for almost a month and pressure the publication's officers into an en masse resignation...
Harvard pranksters made another leap into Cambride prominence with a revival of the nineteenth century's4THE LAMPOON Not Yet Subsided...
Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Julie Andrews and Carol Burnett lampoon visiting Russian singing-dancing groups, Swiss family folk singers, and the hearty entertainers of the American West...