Word: yorkerized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...deciphered "Harvard" and "Lampoon" without too much trouble. We were a little perplexed by all this until we turned to page three and saw there an ad for Steuben Glass. This finding may not mean much to you but we happened to have an odd copy of The New Yorker around at the time and it, too, had a Steuben Glass ad on page three. Naturally this aroused us somewhat and the case was settled when we found an article on page 19 by Sidney Namlerep. Namlerep, of course, is Perelman spelled backwards...
Owlish Ik Shuman, who had made his mark as a crack editor on the New Yorker and Holiday, signed on for three years as publisher. His prescription: raise the rates to contributors, get better cartoons, "try for a civilized point of view...
...bogus edition features a cover by "Birmbarn" and cartoons by other artists with names and styles resembling those in the New Yorker. Regular New Yorker departments are ribbed throughout...
Lampy moguls scheduled the parody several months ago as another in its annual spring series. When the issue rolled off the press the postal authorities complained that the cover made the magazine "look too much like the real New Yorker, and might take advantage of innocent purchasers...
Only a limited number of New Yorker parodies have been printed, but 'Poon officials stand ready to bring out extra issues if the demand exceeds the supply...