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...John H. Limpert '55, president of the Lampoon, explained that the CRIMSON editors have been asked to take part in this ceremony because "they've kept the bird longer than we have...
...Limpert alludes to events of the past few years in which CRIMSON editors have borrowed Thresky from his perch and introduced him to chorus girls, College officials, and Russian delegates...
...Cash Cache" by John Limpert, although a little tedious in spots, shows what a Mosler impregnable, atomic-proof safe can do to the perishable thought of a spring morning. And the "Charles River," Updike's contribution to the frontispiece, cites the popular misconception about springtime joys on the banks of the Charles. He sums up his feeling with: "I'm just a creeping socialist, and you can be sure as shootin' that the next TVA-like project I sponsor will be a dam to head off the Charles at West Newton." Not neglecting baseball, G. E. Vaillant has, written "Dink...
Updike got him, though, and Updike's an honorable man. His "Supply is Unlimited" is excellent, and didn't he make poor Helen Traubel look silly. Good old Updike...but we can't rely on him much longer, so I would suggest grooming some of the other editors, like Limpert for instance. He seems to know a lot about cocktail parties, so we might have him do a parody on that Eliot play as a sequel to "Schnapps, Anyone." And have him make it lighter and more whimsical, as I am inclined to think the last a bit dull...
...football banquets. And then there's "The Peanuts Myth" that uses the reductio ad absurd to no great advantage. This particular one involves nineteenth-century Ivy athletes playing football in motorized wheelchairs. Hindmost in the magazine and in humor is "Informality at Yale," an ironic title because John H. Limpert says that the Yale men "Gothic town" do not have much informality. An "Old College Song" sings sharply of social pressure at Yale, and is notable as the one poem in this Lampoon...