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Except for a jungle-green cover and a story called "Jungle Rot," the Lampoon's February Tropics are hardly worth penetrating. Workhorse President John H. Updike again has filled the magazine with something besides decadent, pasty releases. In an issue practically barren of humor, the laurels for "good job, well done" should go to Updike--by dint of prolificacy...
Cartoon-wise, the Lampoon is generally uninteresting. Updike does seven out of nine with Charles Robinson drawing a couple of blanks. Particularly useless is the full page drawing of man and Sphinx with the caption...
John E. Hubbard--Freshman Crew; Canterbury Players, '49-'51; Harvard Lampoon, President, Treasurer; Co-author, Hasty Pudding Theatricals; Junior Usher...
Their big story will relate the Corporation's selection of a new president. They might make him someone no one has ever heard of, perhaps someone who doesn't exist. That is the way the Lampoon did it 20 years ago, when they put out a similar parody...
...Lampoon took advantage of the CRIMSON's notoriously prosperous financial condition to issue the first local parody. Aided by a traitorous Crimed, the 'Poon put out a spurious issue announcing, among other things, that all subscribers could receive a $1 refund by calling at the paper's office. The stunt left a good deal of hardfeeling...