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...writers, Donald Hall '51, for "technical obscurity," specifically the use of the word "Zeitgeist." Mandel complained that "this reviewer had to look it up and you might have to too." Well, Hall didn't like the review and he protested to the CRIMSON. A friend of his on the Lampoon named John P. C. Train didn't like it either, and wrote us a letter saying...
...main attraction for the Harvard audience will be its air of being a literary Alumni Bulletin, for its masthead is sprinkled with names that of late graced the Advocate, the 'Poon, and (caveat emptor!), the Yale Daily News. Its editor and chief backer, George A. Plimpton, headed the Lampoon four years ago, its managing editor, Thomas Guinzburg, held the same position at the Yalie Daily in 1950, while Peter Matthiessen, the fiction editor, recently taught creative writing in New Haven. Harold Humes and Thomas Spang of the business staff are local products, and Train, noted for his verse, cartoons...
Results of the Yearbook poll show that 80.4 percent of the College community reads the CRIMSON regularly, 7.5 percent reads the Advocate, and 12.1 percent reads the Lampoon...
Harvard's humor magazine, the Lampoon, announced its annual Roscoe awards. Among the winners: Comic Jerry Lewis as "the worst comedian of all time," who gave the year's "worst performance" in Jumping Jacks, the year's "worst picture"; his partner Dean Martin for the "worst supporting performance"; and Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe for the year's "worst female performance" in the movie Niagara...
Look at the cover of the Tropical Lampoon, thumb through for advertisements, find the proof hacks. And to those who read it, remember, the Lampoon is not strictly a literary organization...