The Rag (Austin, Texas), vol. 3, no. 28, 25 August 1969, p.
11. Cryptic notice in upper right-hand corner.
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Dan Carlinsky, ed., College Humor (New York: Harper & Row, 1982), 199. Updated
version of Carlinsky, A Century of
College Humor (1971). A cartoon from Gargoyle, a student-run humor
magazine out of the University of Michigan. “We’ve put a drop containing 500
mikes [micrograms] of LSD on this star in 50 issues of the Gargoyle. Chew it,
and you may get very high!”
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Sean Stewart, ed., On the Ground: An Illustrated Anecdotal History of the Sixties
Underground Press in the U.S. (Oakland: PM Press, 2011), p. 97.
[Abe Peck, former editor of Seed, a Chicago underground paper:] But
most of our sales were on the street with this army of street sellers. When I
went downtown, there’d be a seller on every corner. They’d be yelling, “Hey,
get your Seed here!” or they’d say, “LSD
on page four!” or “Read your hippie paper here!” You know, just funny chants.
It was a carnival kind of scene.
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“ ‘Kids Oz’ not aimed at schoolchildren, says editor,”
The Daily Telegraph (London), 29 June 1971, p. 3.
[Richard Neville, a co-editor of OZ, an
underground newspaper, was on trial at the Old Bailey for publishing an obscene
publication. During the examination, Crown Prosecutor Brian Leary referred to
an ad in the paper.]
One advertisement, for the “Mind Bending Acid Oz,”
said: “Packed with facts, information and the real dope (suck the corner of page 46) on that
short cut to Heaven and Hell.”
Mr Leary suggested that a child might have thought
that there was something in the page and sucked it.
“All they would have got was some ink on their lips,”
replied Neville. No one would have believed that if they sucked the page they would have
“got high within minutes.”
It was merely a reference to a rumour that LSD could
be impregnated in paper, and that “trips" could be produced by sucking
such things as postage stamps or envelopes.
“Back Issue Bonanza” (detail), OZ (London)
#28, May 1970, p. 25.
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