Word: merrills
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...YEAR'S GREATEST SCIENCE-FICTION & FANTASY (320 pp.)-Edited by Judith Merril-Dell...
Possibly the best piece in the May number is an essay by Merril O. Young '51 on Dr. B. F. Skinner and his trained pigeons. This should no doubt be of interest to Dr. Skinner if no one else. The style is shoddy, and the slapdash arrangements of sentences displays the typical Lampoon unfamiliarity with the basic elements of syntax. "The Cruise of the Escarole and Romaine," by Douglas B. Bunce '50 about a forty-foot pedal boat is equally badly written, but might be fairly pleasant if you owned a forty-foot pedal boat at the time. John...