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...whole thing had something to do with the late bogus issue of Newsweek, and something said about south-land rhetoric. Hence Delmar and the sheep were making friends for the newspapers in the Lampoon Sanctum when catastrophe struck yesterday morning...
...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...
...mechanics of a parody are to take off in the structure of an established, respected institution, and reduce it to the absurd. The Lampoon editors have used this formula, but only half-way. Their Newsweek cover is only distinguishable from the original magazine by the modest announcement: "A Harvard Lampoon Parody." The type, the pictures, the features and the make-up are a perfect facsimile. But the contents are about as humorous as Newsweek's own weekly output of printed matter, which can glean only smiles of agreement in a parlor-car to Chicago...
...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...