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...principal ailment of the Lampoon's and also the Record's stories is longwindedness. The authors take so many columns to get to the point that only their editors, roommates, fiancees and perhaps an occasional reviewer ever reach the end, or even the middle. On top of that, the clusive "point" frequently remains invisible right up to the cryptic signature...
...issue contains half-a-dozen pictures and cartoons which are really funny, not just silly or amusing. Most of these are the work of two Elis named Kochler and Voulgaris, who seem to be solely responsible for putting their magazine several notches above other college funny papers, including the Lampoon. The rest of this issue consists of some involved and mostly unfunny stories, all based on ancient gimmicks, a pot of putrid he-she jokes admittedly culled from the 1920-1921 editions of the Record, and the phrase "'53 Skidoo" repeated six times throughout...
...Hollywood any time. Elizabeth soon got her first screen kiss in Julia Misbehaves and returned it charmingly; her fan mail climbed. Some Annapolis midshipmen were suddenly moved to vote her "The Girl We'd Abandon Ship For." Some Harvard boys added: "The Girl We'll Never Lampoon...
...Harvard Lampoon offered $3 to "the sophomore who stands lowest in the class at the end of the year without actually being expelled from college...
Investigation revealed the plot was worked out by the Lampoon staff and accomplished by one of the "foola" as a condition of election to the Toon...