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Ellsberg used the pontoon method successfully in raising the U.S. submarines S-51, S-4, and the Squalus. Ellsberg's nephew, Daniel Ellsberg '52, said he would be glad to try to persuade the Captain to supervise the operation, if the necessary money were raised...
October 28--Lampoon parody, the Pontoon, banned as Cambridge police collect all copies from local newsstands...
...room. He stood before his tactical maps with his division commander, Major General John Church, commanding officer of the U.S. 24th Division. There had been some concern that the Chinese-who had started to move into the city from the north and northeast that morning-might cut off the pontoon bridges over the Han which the U.N. forces would need for their retreat. General Church turned away from the maps and grinned. "We've been in lots tighter spots than this before," he said. "We'll get out all right...
...editors of the Harvard Lampoon had been temporarily relieved to discover that it was only the rival Harvard Crimson, not an outraged Radcliffe mother, that had started the fuss over the off-color cartoons in the parody issue called Pontoon (TIME, Nov. 13). But by last week Poonsters were finding very little humor in the upshot. After a month of evidence-gathering, Middlesex County District Attorney George E. Thompson went before a grand jury, got an indictment against "Harvard Lampoon, Inc." for "selling and distributing" obscene pamphlets...
Maybe we in this pure and raticed four and one-half to one educational (co, that is) institution are just uninformed on life, but we can't see all the fuss being raised about them. We felt that "The Pontoon" was funny in places, flat in places, period...