Buy a Lampoon, Sister?

Picture magazines have been popular in the United States since the winter of 1935-36. In that year an ambitious group of New York journalists bought out the right to use the title of a defunct funny magazine and the first of these labor-saving devices appeared. Last week the snappy Radcliffe News by a similar deal became the most recent publishers in the field. They are now selling Radcliffe undergraduates a pictorial sheet entitled "The Lampoon."

Bold journalistic enterprise is always to be commended, and the News is especially to be encouraged. The title they have acquired will no doubt be associated with a certain one-time Hollywood publicity handbill. But the clever sparkling style of the youthful Dorothy Thompsons should overcome this handicap. Already subscriptions are pouring in which is clear enough evidence that few people recall the namesake of the Radcliffe News supplement.