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SOMEWHERE AT SEA, May 12 (Delayed)--"Titanic" was the word used by Admiral Cummer von Bund to describe the annual CRIMSON-Lampoon war games run off today. In the midst of battle, her decks awash, her superstructure stove in, the U.S. aircraft carrier Lexington sank beneath the foam carrying those aboard to a watery bier. "I never thought she'd go down," murmured Able Bodied Seaman Donald Crestfallen...
...latest word in spring styles will be seen this afternoon, as the undergraduate members of the Harvard CRIMSON meet their traditional rivals, the Harvard Lampoon, in the 92nd annual Cambridge Hunt Cup Regatta and Baseball Jamboree...
Setting the sartorial standard for the gala event will be the presidents of the respective organizations. Dyed M. Foulard, CRIMSON will be attired in an impeccable knee-length camel's hair shirt (available from Mohammeds Men's Shop), while Lampoon pace-setter Fabric M. Gowne will appear in a faultlessly tailored plaid toga (available from Marcellus MacTavish's Faultlessly Tailored Toga Togs). It is reliably reported that in the event of rain, Mr. Gowne will cover his toga with an exotic cape of woven pandanus leaves (available at the Arnold Arboretum...
CRIMSON 23, Lampoon...
...Small Dance," for instance, is a pointless story describing a young gentleman's adventures at a debutante ball. The characters, descriptions, and impressions are Lampoon stock in trade apparently passed down from generation to generation. "Atmofphere Pluf" is a gag story built around the use of the Old English "f" to replace "s" on the menn of a country restaurant; this is conceivably a suitable practice around which to build a witty story, but the writer merely thinks of all the words he knows that have "s" in them and substitutes the antiquated "f". If any attention...