Word: lampooner
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...Lampoon has laid an egg,--again. With its usual feeble attempt at humor, it has bungled itself into the national limelight by a ruthless and unwarranted attack on one of the finer things in life, Ann Sheridan. Of course, anyone with any discrimination knows that Miss Sheridan is hotter than West, greater than Garbo, and the oomphiest...
Regardless of the Lampoon's idea of "success," anyone who can whoop up the front pages of "Life," "Look," and "Pic," anyone who can make a publicity photo curl up and blush like she can must be a success at something. The question is, at what...
...Miss Sheridan is coy. Apparently she loves only the Lampoon. For she is content to sit out on the West Coast, surrounded by still cameras, and beckon to the Poon boys to come out and learn some oomph. This is rank injustice to the rest of the college. Since apparently only she holds the key to money-making success, since most Harvard alumni are reputedly oomphless share croppers and Fuller-brush men, Miss Sheridan is needed at college to raise a new generation of oomphy grads...
...word extemporaneous statement to the press, tall, blend, handsome President W. Russell Bowie, Jr. (pronounced "Buoy") lashed back at Miss Sheridan saying loftily, "As a graduate of a remote Texas Kinder garden School, Miss Sheridan is not qualified to offer any intelligent criticism of the Lampoon, which eaters to a somewhat different class. In view of this, Miss Sheridan's opinion of the Lampoon is of supreme indifference to its editors...
...statement Miss Sheridan said that she wanted to invite the editor of this Lampoon out here. He not only could tell me how to succeed, but he could give the Warner Brothers a few pointers. Then held nudge Mr. Hays out of the Producers' Association and that would end all the problems of the movie business...