Not all letters were black-edged; many writers held tongue firmly in cheek. Someone sent in a printed circular which broadly hinted that Harvard students needed more meat to prevent rheumatic fever.
Another anonymous sender forwarded a pamphlet on "The Communist Technique." Still another sent a brochure on "Esperanto, The International, Auxiliary Language."
The self-styled author of "Broadway Baloney Ballads" campaigned for books for Korea with a hastily scrawled poem:
Youse Harvard guys are wise, We're told
With wits aflame but hearts quite cold
"Potential high brow pundits, Yes
To cause us 'lowlife's' much distress
"Well gents I got such virile gall
That fallcon I dont heed at all
"That gall bids me to ask of youse
Send GI's books--Good Will--good news."