Poen Sheepish, but Claghorn Uncowed as Plan Backfires

"That's a joke, son," quipped one of the editors of the Lampoon yesterday, and Kenny Delmar, better known to his kids as Senator Claghorn, burst into an uncontrollable spasm of gallus snapping. This worthy had come north from his New York publicity agent's office to accept the sheepskin of "Doctor of Lamphonery" in the Bow Direct aviary. Everybody thought it was a riot when it turned out to be a sheep, everybody but the sheep, that is.

The whole thing had something to do with the late bogus issue of Newsweek, and something said about south-land rhetoric. Hence Delmar and the sheep were making friends for the newspapers in the Lampoon Sanctum when catastrophe struck yesterday morning.

Leaping to a telephone, the alert photographer of the Boston Record quickly got in touch with the fire department. But when the smoke eaters arrived thirty minutes later they were told that it should have been the department of sanitation.