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...copy is not good. The latest Poon is a one-gag magazine; it is a take-off on other college "humor" publications, stressing frat house life on the coed campus of "Harvard U." This may be amusing. But except for some good old two-line jokes and some bad, old (and very funny) dirty cartoons, nothing in the new Poon is really new. The blurred, self-conscious pictures are still there. So are the articles about people named Sam Mortiz and Elmer Rocco and fraternities called A. D. and P. C. Even when it tries, the Poon has trouble writing...
...this is obviously Utopian and impossible," he continued. "Therefore, I do not think individual scientists have the right to impose gag rules upon themselves in this respect, particularly at a time when our government feels it is in the best interest of freedom and peace to arm the nation...
...kept at it through a full 20 speeches. The advice: re-elect Lucas, without whom "we would have lost rent control," who "led the fight for increasing the minimum wage from 40? to 75? . . . Are there any questions?" "What about Senator Taft?" somebody yelled. Said Douglas, borrowing an old gag: "He's a good fellow until he makes up his mind. Then he makes it up wrong. I hear he's coming into Illinois to try to beat Senator Lucas. That's a pretty good reason for voting for Lucas...
Turn-of-the-century Detroiters considered it a pretty good gag: a team of horses pulling a "horseless carriage" through the streets day after day, with a sign fastened to the auto: "This is the only way you can drive a Winton." The Winton agency failed to see the humor. Just because they had refused to refund a dissatisfied customer's money, the fellow was taking his revenge in this crude manner...
...inductees in Virginia were caught trying to flunk intelligence tests; in Washington, a 19-year-old told the judge he had stolen a car because the draft wouldn't take anyone convicted of a felony. Most of the grousing was good-natured. Sample: in Los Angeles, a gag was going the rounds that many young men were worried about a new social disease: gontoKorea...