Word: lampooner
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Crapshooter l/c. Boston-bred Fred Richmond got his start in business at Harvard, in the Navy's wartime V12 officer-training program. In his spare time, he ran a one-man tax consultant service and drummed up ads for the Harvard Lampoon. Shipped to the Pacific before finishing Harvard, he came out of the war a radioman third class and crapshooter first class. He graduated from Boston University, then used $1,400 of Navy dice winnings to start an ad-sales office...
Cole Porter never wrote these lines, but he (almost) might have. They are a memorable lampoon by the late Ring Lardner of Minstrel Porter's most famous attack of heartburn. Readers-as distinct from listeners-now have an opportunity to judge the accuracy of Critic Lardner's aim. In a new book out this week, 103 Lyrics of Cole Porter (selected by Fred Lounsberry-Random House; $4.50) were clamped between hard covers without so much as an ocarina accompaniment. It is a rare tribute to a lyricist, but it is also a bit of a dirty trick...
...University of Rangoon, where he graduated in philosophy, U Nu wrote sonnets, "mostly to lampoon rival football teams," and read avidly-Shaw, Shakespeare, Havelock Ellis, Karl Marx. Then he became a schoolteacher, wrote some plays with Freudian themes, and directed his sonnets at Mya Yi, the school board chairman's daughter, with whom he later eloped. Under the spell of a learned Rangoon editor named U Ba Cho, the young playwright got interested in both Buddhism and his country's fight for independence. The zealotry of his politics and religion astonished his friends...
London's impertinent music halls lampoon Joe McCarthy, Noel Coward or anybody else (except royalty) who crosses the news. But last week a songwriter got too saucy with Anthony Eden and ran afoul of the Lord Chamberlain, who has power to grant or refuse theatrical licenses without explanation. Three days before the opening of an obscure new revue called Light Fantastic, the Lord Chamberlain ordered the offending song lyrics dropped. The net result: London's tabloid Daily Mirror, which needs no by-your-leave from the Lord Chamberlain or anyone else, printed the ditty...
...magazine's aesthetic pages, the Class of 1929 chose athletes for the three top posts. French, Guarnaccia, and Clark were elected marshals. For other positions CRIMSON president Sweezy was named permanent treasurer, and Advocate president Bailey, class poet. Grimm, president of the Debating Union, was appointed class orator, while Lampoon leader Blackburn took the Ivy Orator post. Holden was chorister, and Stillman, another Advocate editor, was elected odist...