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Rumors flapping out of the Bow Street Aviary last night suggested that a Lampoon spectacle would take place at noon today. Sources close to the Mt. Auburn St. comic magazine said that 'Poonsters were planning a mammoth balloon ascension from the steps of their building...
...ascension, it was alleged, would employ a Navy "skyhook" balloon filled with 40 dollars worth of helium, with 'Poon Ibis Charles C. Osborne '52 scheduled to be borne aloft...
...Pentagon estimated the proportion of Communist-to-U.N. casualties for the last six weeks at 20 to i. Said the Eighth Army's Matt Ridgway: "The allied ground, sea, and air forces have let a lot of air out of the inflated balloon of the Chinese military establishments. Meanwhile, in the degree to which we deflate her military reputation, we influence the thinking of millions & millions of people in Asia. Eventually it must react on the political actions of their government. This would be of tremendous importance...
...balloon barrage...
...Three Ghosts Beating a Ghost. He draws in a freewheeling, somewhat wobbly cartoon style but his figures are unerringly placed upon the canvas; they go together so naturally as to seem more concerned with themselves and each other than with being in somebody's picture. More important, his balloon-headed people and quaking landscapes convey a good deal of Morris' dominating idea: the insecurity and aloneness...