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Wood can take a vacation from the competitions. She has captured the Lampoon's Worst Actress of the year Award for this year and the next two years...
...Lampoon's 26th annual "Movie Worsts" issue will appear today. Nationwide sales figures will indicate whether there is sufficient demand to distribute the issue on the same scale as Lampoon parodies, according to Walker W. Lewis '67 the magazine's president. The last parody, on Time magazine, sold approximately 100,000 copies...
This year's "Movie Worsts" will be the longest regular issue the Lampoon has ever published. It will be 52 pages long and feature an expanded awards section, a take-off called My Fair Philly, and suggestions for a screenplay of Beowulf...
...largely obscured the mayor's positive achievements, among them excellent appointments to sensitive agencies, notably those responsible for narcotics, welfare, buildings and parks. Though Lindsay's vaunted equanimity has also suffered, he recovered his good humor long enough to supply a surprise postscript to the annual musical lampoon staged by political reporters. Always a show business buff, Lindsay donned straw hat, white gloves and cane for a soft-shoe song-and-dance routine with a professional partner. "Maybe," he quipped, "I can save this show yet." That hopeful observation was clearly not limited to the evening...
...Harvard Lampoon greeted the event by publishing a pink and perfumed parody issue of the Harvard Crimson. After a full-scale competition, the "Crime" had picked Radcliffe Junior Linda McVeigh, 19, to be the first girl managing editor in the student paper's 93-year history. "It's pretty hard for the boys to forget I'm a girl," the Cliffie admitted, "but you must be businesslike." Thoroughly upstaged, her boss, new Crimson President Robert Samuelson, said gracefully: "She has great wit; she is a good choice...