Word: lampoon
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...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...
This week Lampoon appeared in court, pleaded guilty to the indictment, got off with a fine...
...that time our modest publication carried an item noting that the editors of the Harvard "Lampoon" were indicted on--and we quote--selling and distributing obscene pamphlets--disquote. The obscene pamphlet is the October issue of that hallowed humor magazine...
...Lampoon first came to police attention when a practical joker called them October 28 to complain about the editors' parody of mid-western humor magazines, The Pontoon. The police immediately had all copies of the publication removed from newsstands...
Thompson told the Grand Jury that he found The Pontoon "quite raw," and thought it should be prosecuted. No individual editor could be charged since the Lampoon is a corporation under a Commonwealth of Massachusetts charter...