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Like come of its predecessors, the new Lampoon presents well-executed art work, a good cartoon, and occasional clever writing. Like more of them, this "Boston Issue" contains much that is flat and insipid. Parody of both literature and situation has become a well-developed craft with the 'Poon staff; original humor...
...CRIMSON printed the first "Radcliffe Mother" letter in its Dartmouth Game issue last 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...
Last Monday, District Attorney Thompson conferred with the 'Poon's lawyers and informed them that he planned to prosecute. Thompson at an initial court session a month ago had been given the option of taking the action against the magazine or dismissing the matter by District Court Judge Arthur P. Stone...
District Attorney George E. Thompson would not comment on whether or not the Poon will make the docket even at that time. "We're still waiting for more information," he said last night. "We want to clear this thing up as soon as possible," he added...
There are a variety of charges on which the 'Poon might be prosecuted, but people high in the involved legal channels last night indicated that they foresaw no action...