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...CRIMSON rolls into New Haven after a banner year, including victories over the Harvard Lampoon, Radcliffe's Briggs Hall, and the Crimson Printing Company "Pressmen...
...morning of the Princeton game on November 8, 1926, the Lampoon published football issue featuring a cartoon of two pigs wallowing in the mud with the caption, "Come, brother, let us root for dear old Princeton...
While many people chuckled over the Lampoon's double-barrelled joke, others steamed. Among the latter was the Princeton Board of Athletic Control, which two days later voted unanimously to sever athletic relations with Harvard in all sports for an indefinite period of time...
...Princeton resumed play with Harvard in football and most other sports. But despite the obvious spirit of "let's be friends again," the Princetonian conscience could not easily forget the "Yale-only" implications of the Harvard Athletic Committee's decision and the excessive anti-Princeton ridiculing by the Lampoon. It would take much longer than eight years for those two wounds to heal, for they had injured Princeton where it hurt most--the Big Three relationship, in which it felt neglected...
...HOUSE, by William Brinkley (373 pp.; Random House; $5.95). There was nothing wrong with Author (Don't Go Near the Water) Brinkley's idea, which was to lampoon a big picture magazine as the sort of hiccup farm where employees run through a four-minute morning, ease up with a five-martini lunch, and frolic back to the office just in time to line up an overnight date with a girl reporter. It was the author's qualifications that did him in. Before giving up journalism for "full-time writing" (as the book-jacket blurb rather cattily...