Word: pigskins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Originality is seldom wasted in poking fun at competitive athletics, but going on the assumption that the only good joke is an old one, the Lampoon's Harvard-Yale Game issue kicks the Old Grad and the pigskin squarely and sometimes humorously. Eighteen photographs supplement the parody on sport sidelights and interviews with Grand Old Men of Football. Perhaps Lampy's switch to photography is a last gasp effort to beat the cartoon nemesis--it may not succeed...
...pigskin more precious than gold...
Huey, one of the most highly paid pigskin prognosticators in the Far Eastern area, resigned in a huff in 1951 after Princeton defeated the varsity in the Stadium...
...should be to the Miller legend what Bulfinch was to the Greek. There are 59 numbers by the late famed bandleader and his polished crew, 31 of them dubbed from radio broadcasts; the rest are reissues of familiar Miller disks made between 1939 and 1942. They, are packaged in pigskin, with program notes (by Jazz Expert George Frazier) and drawings of Miller himself. Price...
...picture's low-comedy highlights: the voluptuous Empress Poppea (Silvana Pampanini) taking a milk bath that out-DeMilles De-Mille; the sailors engaging in a pocket-billiard contest with Nero (Gino Cervi); gladiators waging a savage football game in the Colosseum with a Grecian urn as a pigskin; a Roman orgy with jitterbugging; a frenzied chariot race in which one of the vehicles is driven by Hopalong Cassius...