1961 News Abstracts
MAD Magazine, March 1961:
No. 61, p. 45-47 -

Speaking of Pictures Dept.

MAD SALUTES AN UNSUNG HERO
Artist:  George Woodbridge    Writer: Don Reilly
Yes, whenever heroic and stupendous deeds 
are done, LICE is there -- "On The Spot!"

Only, haven't you ever wondered how in heck
LICE gets those "On The Spot" pictures of
heroic deeds - when nobody could possibly
be on the spot except the guy doing the deed?

F'rinstance, how does LICE get a photo of 
the first man to reach the peak of old Mount
Everblechh alone... a photo taken from the
summit - looking down at the ascending climber!?

MAD has discovered the answer, and salutes an "Unsung Hero"....
The man who takes all of LICE'S impossible "on-the-spot" photos:
LICE PHOTOGRAPHER
MACOMBER BOMBEY

... What about the spread on 
Capt. Wayne Fudd's 19-mile-high
balloon flight.  Who took the pics
showing Fudd plummeting
earthward to fame - pictures
taken from inside the gondola?

The fact is that while Capt. Fudd 
plunged down through the
clouds, a lone figure crouched
in the frigid stratosphere,
shivering, clicking his camera
shutter with numbed fingers

... and wishing the Air Force
had not been so chicken as 
to deny him the use of a G.I.
oxygen mask because he was
a civilian - a civilian photographer 
named Macomber Bombey!

Macomber stayed in that 
balloon until nightfall.  Then he, 
too, made the 19-mile jump 
to earth, equaling the feat -
while Capt. Fudd was being 
hailed on The Ed Sullivan Show!

NOTE:  Col. Kittinger recalls that all the national publicity he
received in 1960 from his world record feats had little impact
on his then young two sons - UNTIL this parody about him 
appeared in MAD Magazine.  Only then was he accorded 
any celebrity status around the house. -  Milton Sandy, Jr.