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Nobody remembers why, but in the early 1970s, the Harvard Lampoon fell afoul of then Councilor--now Mayor--Alfred E. Vellucci. And the semi-secret, social organization that occasionally publishes parodies came to regret...
Claritas will not be in competition with Harvard's traditional humor magazine, the Harvard Lampoon, Gove said, because it will focus specifically on Harvard subjects. The Lampoon, occasionally published by a semi-secret, humor-oriented society, "is not a campus organization per se but addresses college life in general," Gove said...
Actually, the Harvard Lampoon--a semi-secret social club that publishes parodies on a highly irregular schedule--won't be bringing up any charges against itself. But the elite and selective fraternal order may just take the Kennedy School Lampoon--a new group which has so far published only a send-up of the official K-School program of activities--to court for copyright infringement if the club's incipient humor magazine doesn't give back its name...
Founded in 1970 by graduates of the semi-secret, humor-oriented select social club, the New York-based National Lampoon has a contract to "pay the Harvard Lampoon a royalty for the use of the name 'Lampoon,"' Simmons said. But he refused to disclose the exact amount. Jessica Marshall '86, a Crimson editor who last month was named president of the Lampoon, put it more bluntly: "We just get a hefty check from them every month...
...public exposure of a semi-secret paper by Huntington is thus worthy of attention, interesting for what it might point out about trends within American political science and within the foreign policy-making establishment. The paper, entitled "Getting Ready for Political Competition in South Vietnam," is a discussion of the political means available to the U. S. for preventing NLF dominance. In it Huntington examines various political settlements and goes on to investigate specific constitutional and electoral formulas...