'Poon Balloon Set To Rise at Noon

Rumors flapping out of the Bow Street Aviary last night suggested that a Lampoon spectacle would take place at noon today. Sources close to the Mt. Auburn St. comic magazine said that 'Poonsters were planning a mammoth balloon ascension from the steps of their building.

The ascension, it was alleged, would employ a Navy "skyhook" balloon filled with 40 dollars worth of helium, with 'Poon Ibis Charles C. Osborne '52 scheduled to be borne aloft.

Skyhook balloons normally reach a height of more than 50 miles, but 'Poonsters last night were apparently unruffled at the prospect of Osborne's elevation. It was reported by one source within the 'Poon that Osborne would be dropped at the last moment and a dummy substituted. Osborne is a noted short-distance swimmer.