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...rare combination these days it approaches an act of defiance. Voters in their teens and 20s backed President Barack Obama by a 2-to-1 ratio over John McCain last year, amid a flood of support from musicians, movie stars and other youth icons. Late-night TV hosts lampoon Sarah Palin and Dick Cheney as punch lines while MTV throws support to left-leaning causes like gay marriage. But hundreds of young people with a different perspective are flocking to Washington, D.C., for the Young America's Foundation's 31st annual National Conservative Student Conference, which begins...
Many of Updike’s friends on The Lampoon came from wealthier backgrounds, but that did not stop the young writer—who grew up in Reading, Pa. and attended a small-town public school—from rising to the helm of the nationally-known humor magazine...
Updike’s playful side will forever be memorialized in one 1953 incident that pit The Crimson and The Lampoon against one another. As Maccoby was walking back to Lowell House for lunch, Updike and three co-conspirators from kidnapped him, an act of retaliation for The Crimson’s earlier theft of the iconic golden ibis figure from atop The Lampoon’s building...
...Lampoon’s content while maintaining an exemplary academic record—he was one of only eight in his class to be inducted to Phi Beta Kappa as a junior—had little free time to devote to politics or parties, according to former Lampoon writer Eric B. Wentworth ’54, who lived in Lowell House with Updike...
Lewis L. B. Gifford ’51, who worked with Updike on The Lampoon, said Updike once showed him a bound volume of his early writings in his Hollis dorm room. The work had been typed by Updike’s mother, herself an aspiring writer who worked in a department store...