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...fall. Headed 'RADCLIFFE MOTHER RAPS RACY 'POON,' it was written by two editorial board members when a three-inch hole developed in an editorial page at one in the morning. This letter (as did a review above it) commented on a spread of reasonably dirty cartoons reprinted in a Lampoon parody of a mid-western humor magazine. It had remarkable dirty cartoons reprinted in a Lampoon parody of a mid-western humor magazine. It had remarkable results. The morning it appeared a woman, claiming she was the "Radcliffe Mother," phoned the Cambridge police and suggested they ban the magazine...
October 28--Lampoon parody, the Pontoon, banned as Cambridge police collect all copies from local newsstands...
December 7--Lampoon indicted for "selling and distributing obscene pamphlets," later fined...
...banning of the Lampoon, two giant riots, and the opening of the $3,000,000 Graduate Center highlighted an active fall semester at the University. Students were certain that this would be the last normal year at Harvard for some time to come, but concern over the Korean War did not stop most of the usual College activities. The following is a chronological list of the major events of the first half of the year...
...Lampoon missed its greatest opportunity when it came up with a rather crude satire of the column, "Impressions of Parliament," a pleasantly flippant account of the Parliamentary proceedings of the week. The effect of giving the legislators such names as Mr. K. G. Skeemer, Mr. Upton AdamBoyse, Lord Elpus, and Earl Ebyrd is simply to crush whatever little joke is being hatched at that point. The vast humor opportunities of dealing really lightly with British governmental and social foibles are almost buried...