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NPAC last night gave the CRIMSON photostatic copies of 19 of the bogus checks. Included among these checks is one made out for $150 to the April 24th Transportation Fund, dated April 23, 1971, and signed by Ruth Anne Putnam, wife of Hilary Putnam, professor of Philosophy. Putnam himself made out a check on the same day to the fund for $36. Both checks were returned to the NPAC office early in May, and the Cambridge Trust Company later gave as the reason for the stoppage-as recorded on a routine bank form by the Putnams-the fact that "merchandise...
Since learning about the bogus checks in early May, NPAC has attempted to contact the people involved with very little success. According to Finnan, most of the few contacted have said that they used tickets which someone else had bought them, but could offer no strong explanation as to why they weren't returned. One person reportedly told an NPAC member, "I think the April 24 demonstration was pro-government, was not a peace rally and I don't want to pay for the tickets...
...instead of legitimate teachers, he found people "selling their wares," and he was not satisfied. He had come on a real search, and found nothing. By 1962 he had come to believe that "all these things are bogus, life is really enjoyment." Shortly before that time he had got a promotion, so he now felt himself well-equipped for a hedonistic life, and even made some beginnings in that direction...
...feeling that the Berrigans are bogus on two counts. They claim to represent Christ, but in their insurrection they behave contrary to his teaching and example. They claim to be proponents of peace, but their conduct is riotous. They are hypocrites...
...only the single bed in Ollie's suite. Most annoying of all, the newlyweds take up forty minutes of the film to bitch about a perfectly wonderful Cambridge apartment which you could never find in real life. The list could go on, touching anachronisms like the Radcliffe Library or bogus encounters with Law School deans...