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Somehow the Jester got hold of a copy of the CRIMSON'S Lampoon Review and reprinted it. The CRIMSON does not know how this was done, but feels that the review's accuracy makes it worth running again anyway...
...latest issue, the editors of the Lampoon have descended to a new low in their seventy-five years of unmitigated dullness. Even the Life-Saver joke, usually the high point of each issue, if lifeless, trite, and unfunny. The Shaefer ad is unreadable, while the Coop ad, which is generally the only reason for buying the magazine in the first place, is totally tasteless and unprovocative...
...masthead of the Lampoon there are six literary editors. In the magazine as a whole there are approximately six pages of prose and poetry--none of it worth reading, and probably all reprints anyway. The material, in general, is an unfortunate selection of old wheezes and extravagant panegyrics upon the Lampoon. But as everyone who cares knows, the Lampoon hasn't made any money this year, or any other year for that matter, and we understand it will be shortly going out of business. The arrival of this issue will certainly finish things...
...Barkio (Spike Jones; Victor). The City Slickers do a bumptious doghouse lampoon of Arditi's coloratura favorite, Il Bacio. For all their hectic enthusiasm, it falls far short of Clara Cluck's classic henhouse version of the same old standard...
Finish line photographs developed yesterday revealed that the winner of the Friday literary regatta was the Lampoon, not the CRIMSON. The pictures showed that the 'Poon actually won by four lengths instead of losing by an alleged 23, and that the Crime's 64-stroke closing sprint was unavoidably delayed until the 'Poon had crossed the finish line...