Word: poons
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Miss Sheridan is coy. Apparently she loves only the Lampoon. For she is content to sit out on the West Coast, surrounded by still cameras, and beckon to the Poon boys to come out and learn some oomph. This is rank injustice to the rest of the college. Since apparently only she holds the key to money-making success, since most Harvard alumni are reputedly oomphless share croppers and Fuller-brush men, Miss Sheridan is needed at college to raise a new generation of oomphy grads...
Lampy for once stopped into some unpremeditated national publicity yesterday when Ann Sheridan, "Oomph Girl" whom the Poon recently dubbed "least likely to succeed" in the movies blasted Harvard men in general and Lampoon editors in particular...
...announcing his decision not to sue the Funnymen, Mickey said that an examination of the 'Poon's bank account revealed a balance of $.27, and that the Mount Auburn Street monstrosity wasn't worth the expense of a legal battle...
Earlier yesterday Sullivan had filed suit in Cambridge Court, denounced the Lampoon for its phony "expose" of his Communist affiliations, and announced that he would convert the moldy Poon clubhouse into a modern filling station...
University Hall, impatient with the Lampoon's repeated excesses, is believed to welcome the chance to place the tottering humor magazine under more complete Dean's Office supervision. College authorities were believed to have turned down a frantic 'Poon request for funds to fight the Sullivan law suit...