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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Plimpton also earned a temporary position with the New York Philharmonic, playing the sleigh bells, triangle, bass drum and gong...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Born to an aristocratic New York family on March 18, 1927, Plimpton attended the elite prep school Phillips Exeter Academy...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Three months prior to graduation, Exeter officials asked Plimpton to leave...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...Plimpton “majored in Lampoon and minored in everything else,” said Robert C. Cobb ’48, a fellow member of the Lampoon...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...night of their induction into the Lampoon, Cobb said Plimpton was so drunk that he “ran out into the street and was run over by a parked...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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