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...Updike served an eventful term as President of The Harvard Lampoon in 1953—kidnapping the president of The Harvard Crimson and orchestrating a close save of The Lampoon??s famed ibis statue. A noted perfectionist, he graduated summa cum laude the following year with a degree in English, before going on to a fellowship at Oxford and a job at The New Yorker...
...kidnapping was an act of retaliation against The Crimson’s earlier theft of the iconic golden ibis figure from atop The Lampoon??s castle-like headquarters. But The Crimson maintained the upper hand...
2/06/08: Paris Hilton makes history when she receives the Harvard Lampoon??s first-ever Woman of the Year Award. “You know, I’m like a lot of you Harvard students, really,” Hiltonsays on the steps of the Lampoon. “You have a Lamont Library. We also have a Lamont Library, except it’s a club in LA where celebs go to dance on tables and get crazy...
...characterized the Lampoon??which did not integrate until 1971—as primarily a social organization, noting that the weekly dinners hosted by the organization would likely have been unappealing to women...
...flowers, nice views, parks, mountains, hills, statues. It is people that I can bond with over industrial landscaping that I would actually like to know.” (Powers demonstrated his own landscaping skills earlier this year, when he was arrested for attempting to cut down trees outside the Lampoon??s castle.)Powers receives many portrait requests, but says he is hesitant to paint people since “I’d make them look more architectural, angular.” Which, he adds, is paradoxical. “I try to make a clock have...