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...twice yesterday to discuss the matter, once with Lampoon counsel Joseph A. DcGugliclmo '29. They will meet representatives of the 'Poon today...
Cambridge officials will decide this morning whether or not the city will press criminal charges against the Lampoon or any of its members for 'distributing obscene material through minors." Representatives of the 'Poon will meet with Acting Chief of Police Patrick J. McCarthy at 8:30 a.m. before the Clerk of Court...
...copy is not good. The latest Poon is a one-gag magazine; it is a take-off on other college "humor" publications, stressing frat house life on the coed campus of "Harvard U." This may be amusing. But except for some good old two-line jokes and some bad, old (and very funny) dirty cartoons, nothing in the new Poon is really new. The blurred, self-conscious pictures are still there. So are the articles about people named Sam Mortiz and Elmer Rocco and fraternities called A. D. and P. C. Even when it tries, the Poon has trouble writing...
...course, since this is a parody of what the Poon considers an unfunny magazine, it may be intentionally unfunny. If this is true, prospective Poon buyers should turn instead to the Lampoon's source material, which is unintentionally even unfunnier. The Lampoon has lampooned nobody but itself. The Bow Street Aviary has released another turkey...
...same time, the former proprietors of the Poon will be fleeing to Iowa where President Harry Arcade will give them the keys to the college...