Word: lampooner
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...wicked popularity of sex trash. When men are buying that which is portable cover-out, it will likely be current bestsellers Life and Look--new faces since the days in the Teens when Literary Digest and Punch drew the tinkle of coin. Old-faces Crimson, Advocate, and Lampoon remain top attractions, although he confesses to selected clientele that the latter has fallen off considerably since the University's Golden Day. Education-admirer Felix, of course, does not admit to difference between the Harvard of today's Postwar and the Harvard of the Roaring Twenties. He has not looked...
...That's a joke, son," quipped one of the editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that...
...whole thing had something to do with the late bogus issue of Newsweek, and something said about south-land rhetoric. Hence Delmar and the sheep were making friends for the newspapers in the Lampoon Sanctum when catastrophe struck yesterday morning...
...mechanics of a parody are to take off in the structure of an established, respected institution, and reduce it to the absurd. The Lampoon editors have used this formula, but only half-way. Their Newsweek cover is only distinguishable from the original magazine by the modest announcement: "A Harvard Lampoon Parody." The type, the pictures, the features and the make-up are a perfect facsimile. But the contents are about as humorous as Newsweek's own weekly output of printed matter, which can glean only smiles of agreement in a parlor-car to Chicago...
...have any friends who are Lampoon editors, you'll recognize them in the photographs which spot the magazine. They're as funny as Lampoon editors can be, in their quaint alcoholic attitudes. The drawings of Maria de Medici and the parody of Grant Wood's "American Gothic" are excellent. The advertisements are exciting, and for twenty-five cents, this Lampoon parody is a worthwhile souvenir of the game...