Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Frank E. Baker '51, reported on Saturday as the new business manager of the Lampoon, is not the man in the job. It appears that the Funnymen, always eager to play the fools, really elected David Graham '52 to the post, and that Baker holds no office on the "comic" magazine...
Frederick H. Gwynne '51 will take over in January as president of the Lampoon as a result of Lampy's annual election last night...
...editors defined the type of material they were looking for in vague terms, interest to the students was stated as the prime consideration. The humor, which was to be different from that of any present College publication, was described by Shafer as an attempt to get away from the Lampoon style. The poetry was "definitely not to be esoteric," but on a simpler plane...
...humor in the Yale issue of the Lampoon is worth 25 cents, the corresponding Yale Record should be valued at about $2.50. The Yale magazine is an honest and successful attempt to be entertaining, in spite of the 58 (by actual count) two-line gags. Most of the cartoons are funny; commentaries and stories are consistently amusing. Especially delightful are five two-page spreads of words and pictures on familiar undergraduate situations...
...this proves one thing. The Lampoon has its Ibis, but the Yale Record has its own rara avis: a Sense of Humor...