Word: newsweek
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Newsweek is a magazine that doesn't need parody. But since the "top collegiate comics" who conjure up the monthly Lampoon appear to be up to their navels in negotiable securities, the sixty-five pages of shiny, smooth paper lying around local newsstands this week is an impressive, if sometimes humorless, article...
...object of their feverish search was the April 14 edition of Newsweek magazine, which the 'Poon' editors had hoped to make different from any copy the public had ever seen before. No real issue of course, this was merely the Ibisters' way of reviving their old "Parodies" series, which has in the past included the New Yorker, the Alumni Bulletin, and Cosmopolitan Magazine...
...busy buying up the bogus Newsweek to make an extended statement, the Bow Street aviary nevertheless did manage to take time out between newsstands to declare that "this left us speechless." By last night, however, they were sufficiently recovered to direct their suspicions at the Yale Record...
According to Lampy's Newsweek, the most important development of the past week has been the advent of Spring--which has had widespread repercussions from Capitol Hill to the Kremlin. Typical comment upon this earth-shaking phenomenon was that recorded by Senator Clag R. Polecat, "who said he know the dangers of overeating in hot weather. I was young once,' he cracked, 'but I'm grey-haired and sharp-eyed...
Three thousand people swarmed to Delhi University, jammed together on wooden benches, and sat on the ground in chilling Indian weather to hear the American astronomer predict what a Newsweek correspondent called "a great intellectual awakening" in India. "I have never spoken," said Professor Shapley, "to a more responsive, alert, and eager audience. India is one of the hopes for the world. The sky is the limit for scientific research in India...