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During his three College years, Hearst had an opportunity to display some of the publishing talent that later built the greatest newspaper empire ever known in America. His field of activity was modest--the Harvard Lampoon...
...most famous recent case connected with the University was the banning of the late October, 1950, Lampoon parody, "The Pontoon." He called the publication "filthy, Obscene, and Licentious," but refused "to take any action in this court." He turned the case over to the district attorney. The 'Poon finally pleaded guilty in mid-December to a charge of "selling and distributing obscene pamphlets," and paid a $100 fine...
...time for all good men to come to the aid of the party. But it depends on whether you consider the party of the first part or the party of the second part after getting out the current issue of the Lampoon. It was pretty gay the night we put the last page of the old rag to bed. The whole gang returned from Bar Harbor--without tans, of course, except for Joe Klowernig who somehow always managed to do the wrong things. Not that he wasn't a nice guy, but Joe somehow didn't seem...
...Yale Record consistently and overwhelmingly outsells the Lampoon...
...October, Lampy shocked the College by inaugurating a clean humor policy--"To say that the Lampoon is about to reform is not quite the story," President F.H. Nichols said, "for I think that the Lampoon has always been the cleanest of college comics; there have been, however, occasional lapses when it has strayed after false gods. In the future we shall endeavor to eliminate these periodical lapses." The Lampoon wasn't the only College publication to make innovations. The Advocate began livening up its issues "to rid itself of the stigma of being merely 'academic' or 'precious...