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Forty years ago tonight Lothrop Withington '42 had dinner at the Union and became a national celebrity. He ate a live goldfish...
...never lived it down. It follows me everywhere," Withington said yesterday. "The national papers carried it, and suddenly they were doing it at every college...
...dollar bet with friends inspired the stunt, which made Withington famous. Calls came from Hollywood; Garry Moore and Ernie Kovacs invited him on their talk shows, and marriage proposals arrived through the mail...
...glass had nothing to do with meanness. He unscrewed the bulb from a nearby lamp and ate it. The kooky stunt so pleased him and his audience that Bennett, 21, has since consumed a dozen bulbs. He has also set off-the campus' most bizarre craze since Lothrop Withington Jr. swallowed a live goldfish at the Freshman Union...
Thirty-four years to the day after Lothrop Withington, Jr. '42 downed a live goldfish before onlookers in the Freshman Union, a sophomore sat in Lowell House munching away calmly on a lightbulb "for dessert...