There is No Joy in Poonville, For Worsts Have Struck Out

Jester shuffled the mail on his desk unhappily. "Oh, shucks," he sighed. "No vitriolic letters, no biting criticism, no bouquets . . ." "and no publicity," interrupted the Blot gloomily. "Darn this old war, anyhow," added Maurice "Muck" Osboor ocC.; "I'll never have the thrill of making Freddy Bartholomew and Shirley Temple honorary editors of this sheet to pacify them. It would have been such fun!"

The occasion for all this misery at the Boo Street "slice of Goshawful flimsy" this week is the announcement that there will be no Lampoon "Movie Worsts of the Year" for 1943.