Bulletin Takes Blame for Crime Wave in Cambridge

A secretary in the Alumni Bulletin office admitted under questioning last night that Saturday's parody of the CRIMSON was put out by the Bulletin "to pay those wiseacres back in full."

"We hope it gets them in a peck of trouble," the young woman said, asking that her name be used. She admitted also that "originally the Bulletin planned to make it took like the work of freshmen, which is why we didn't try to make it funny."

Cliff F. Thompson '56, President of the CRIMSON, expressed amazement at the disclosures. "I didn't think Norm and Bill and Jane would do that to me," he said. Thompson cut short his vacation in Dedham to return to the CRIMSON when he received reports of the parody.

Meanwhile, protests poured into Cambridge from all over the country from people duped by the parody. Most letters, however, upheld Dean Leighton's alleged ban on the CRIMSON and have been destroyed. An exception was the telephone call from Wilbur K. Jordan, President of Radcliffe, who offered the CRIMSON haven in the Quad. "We don't have a lot of deans here who go around beating their chests," he commented.

"Enigmatic Smile"

Also taking action on the basis of the false report, the Poet's Theatre and the cast of "Princess Ida" have suspended performance until further notice. "When one of the arts is struck," said a Poet's Theatre spokesman, "we all suffer. God, how we suffer."

Norman Hall, managing editor of the Alumni Bulletin, would comment only briefly on the secretary's accusation. "I am smiling an enigmatic little smile," he said. "Interpret that as you will." William B. Smith, former Bulletin staff man and advisor to President Pusey, admitted that the whole magazine was still smarting from the CRIMSON's November Illegitimate Issue. "I will say that a lot of us think the CRIMSON should finally get their just desserts." William A. Heaman, Director of University Dining Halls, said Smith should mind his own business.