Word: lampooner
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...been a lot of haggling about whether Princeton really deserved as important a place as Yale on the crimson's fall schedule, but the straw that broke the Tiger's back had come from students rather than administration. On the morning of the 1926 game the then-mighty Lampoon published a special issue with a drawing of two pigs wallowing in the mud proclaiming "Come. Brother, let us root for dear old Princeton." And to cap it off, at half-time the Poonies put out a fake CRIMSON headlined "BILL ROPER, PRINCETON COACH, DIES ON FIELD". There was an explanatory...
...ugliest building I ever did see," Vellucci declared. "It's even uglier than the Lampoon so I'm in favor of it. I'm in favor for any building that's that ugly," he explained...
...castle came from the unusual combination of Councilmen Alfred E. Vellucci and Joseph A. DeGuglielmo '25. DeGuglielmo objected to the Council becoming involved in aesthetic judgements on local architecture. Vellucci merely said, "I think the building would be lovely." He later added, "It's even better than the Lampoon, which is the ugliest ever...
Come to think of it, the Gargoyle editors are pretty regular guys, too. They helped the Lampoon ship the bird, figuring that their colleagues might not be able to take time off from all those cocktail parties for celebrities...
Woodward A. Wickham, Jr., '64, president of the Lampoon, said last night that the White House had not yet sent a thank you note...