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...Pontoon contained the reprint cartoons, as reprint column of "two-line gags," and a series of original articles describing life in Cambridge as if Harvard men behaved the way the Lampoon thinks Midwestern collegians...
Captain McCarthy ordered 300 copies of the Lampoon's Saturday parody issue The Pontoon, seized from newsboys who were selling it on Boylston Street to the crowd headed across the river to the Stadium, He advised the magazine not to cell the issue locally, and by yesterday noon the last copies had disappeared from newsstands...
Complaint centered on the obscenity of a two-page spread of cartoons reprinted from midwestern college humor magazines. The editors of the Bow Street publication deliberately printed these cartoons because they thought them representative of the had taste the Pontoon was designed to parody, they said...
...issue was produced as if the editors of the Ponca City (Iowa) U. Pontoon had taken over the Lampoon as the College's purveyor of local humor. The issue was planned and written as a satire on the ways, habits, and sense of humor of Midwestern college students and their funny magazines...
William James, proxy of the "Pontoon," announced yesterday the changes which he and his board hope to put through at the aviary. "No more of this pallid imitation of the New Yorker.' We're going to print two-line jokes, funny articles, and humorous cartoons. It's going to be a complete change...