An admixture of good buffoonery, high audacity, bad temper and bad taste appeared on newsstands this week in the form of Editor Norman Anthony's Ballyhoo, ballyhooed as the funny magazine devoid of advertising (TIME, May n). Much of the content was devoted to burlesques of familiar advertising campaigns. Therein lay most of its humor, most of its audacity, some of its bad taste. Examples:
1) A picture of an infant's bare backside, with the text: KEEP KISSABLE
. . WITH OLD COLDS. "Open up a pack of Old Colds. . . . Smell...
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