Word: lampooner
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...Harvard Lampoon chose "Oomph Girl" Ann Sheridan as movie actress most unlikely to succeed. Said she in Hollywood, where she earns approximately $100,000 a year: "I wonder what those bozos think is success. ... I don't mind criticism, but I hate to have it come from Harvard. ... I met a Harvard man once, myself. It was a very sad evening...
Having arrived in Cambridge, she stalwartly refused to live in the Winthrop House shower of W. Russell Bowie '41, or in the Lampoon Building. It was only when introduced to the bathtub in Lampoon candidate Cleveland's room that she made herself at home and waited for rescue...
...University Hall succeeds, as seems likely now, in keeping the oomph girl from coming to the University Theatre, Warner Brothers is still seriously considering having the first showing of her new picture in a Boston theatre and thus cashing in on the national publicity which began with the Lampoon's innocent crack at Miss Sheridan a few weeks...
...Sheridan build-up began about two weeks ago when Lowell Thomas referred to the Lampoon's poke at Miss Sheridan as "least likely to succeed." An alert Hollywood publicity man saw his chance and got her to issue a counterblast at the Lampoon, and the big-time publicity began...
Only yesterday a Warner Brothers operative in Boston persuaded some undergraduates to steal a seal and plant it in a student's room, and tried to drag Ann Sheridan into the picture by saying, "This seal has more oomph than the Lampoon" to every reporter he could find...