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...places even reads a little like TIME. It feels like TIME, and has about as many pages. There is the red-bordered cover with a slash across one corner, and the usual news sections from ART to WORLD. Actually, it is not TIME at all, but a Harvard Lampoon parody of TIME, the third since 1941. Some 500,000 copies of the Lampoon will go on sale this week across the nation. How to distinguish it from the genuine weekly newsmagazine? It will cost...
...Imitations have been done by such well-known writers as Wolcott Gibbs (1936) and Art Buchwald (1966), and by such distant institutions as the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa (last spring). Why TIME? "It is a universally recognizable magazine, a quality essential to any successful parody," explains Lampoon Staffer Douglas Kenney. "We needed TIME'S shotgun effect to take after American society...
Take after the Lampoon did, with such items...
Although we do have the best photography and printing facilities around, the general appearance of our rather decrepil. old building just can't complete with something like the stately Lampoon. If you're looking for a place with some quiet. leisurely atmosphere, forget it. (The Fly Club is between Mt. Auburn St. and the main entrance of Lowell House...
Gradually, more and more Crimeds returned to the College ready to resurrect the paper. Finally, on April 9, 1946, the CRIMSON reappeared. A black flag hung from the bronze ibis atop the Lampoon building to make things official...