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I've read Mary Burchard Pryor's letter to you and before that I read the nun's canceling her subscription because of the doggerel you copied [TIME, Oct. 29; Nov. 5]. I liked Miss Pryor's letter; I did not like the nun's...
¶ Wilson Jackson, Negro porter and keeper of the Presidential zoo of raccoons, bees, dogs, cats, owls, etc., quivered last week when President Coolidge told him that two lion cubs were on the way from Johannesburg, South Africa- the gift of the mayor of that city. With his eyeballs rolling...
The list of minor parts follows: The Cousin with an Arrow-Collar Face T. C. Howe '26 Another Cousin with Arrow-Collar Face G. B. Bingham '28 Mr. Elkins, the Undertaker C. D. Gowing '28 His Assistant Edward Newbury '27 Another Assistant A. M. Shattuck '28 Train Porter G. S...
"I've come to the Graduate Dinner" said James Montgomery Flagg to a CRIMSON reporter last evening "every year since I was made an ornery editor--that's Lampy for 'honorary',--but nobody ever knows me.
However, it was not left to the "Ornery Editors," as Mr. Flagg calls them, to write the whole paper. Those who think that there was ever better light verse in the Lampoon than when Lawrence McKinney '12, Roger Burlingame '13, and Richard Evarts '13, were writing for it had better...