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IBIS (Vice President) Harvard Lampoon...
WITH AN ATTEMPT at sabotaging the Harvard Independent, a cocktail party in their castle, and reportedly the largest press run ever for a single issue American magazine, the Harvard Lampoon has added Cosmopolitan to its ranks of parodied journals. They hope to go laughing all the way to the bank, but if they're reading their own work, they will be the only people laughing...
...Henry Kissinger centerfold seems to be one of the most popular parts of the magazine. Freshmen women in the Yard are posting it on their walls, and most people who buy the parody like it. But Lampoon president S. Eric Rayman '73 freely admits that the thing is a fake. It is apparently a 50-year-old cab driver whose belly is beginning to sag a bit, with Kissinger's head attached to it. No doubt that is what a lot of people, including the Lampoon, would like to think Kissinger looks like...
...Harvard people there are quite a few little inside jokes that relieve the general dreariness, or disgust. Lampoon editors have their pictures scattered all over the place, and anyone so inclined can waste a lot of time trying to find them. N-rm-n Ma-ler has written an account of a party at Harvard that sounds something like the one that the Advocate threw last Spring for Mailer in the Lampoon building. The appearance of John Marquand. Allston Burr Senior Tutor in Dudley House in a photo feature "Workaday Whirl" may give some people pleasure. And when the face...
...Speaks Out She's More than Just a Kewpie Doll" by the significantly named Randy Parley (Barbi's biggest bitch is that she has no sex organs) to "Dear Cosmopolitan," letters written by the equally significantly named Claire de Lune, Phillipe O'Faith and Ann Cephalitis. In between the Lampoon manages to hit highpoints ("Been Up so Long it Looks Like Down to Me," is which Lawnboy Watson, an astigmatic law school reject sings the blues). It also hits lots of lowpoints (Chins and Needles: Acupuncture Beauty Tips" by Sue Kiaki, and a bustline development advertisement featuring a Jackie Onassis...