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...years old. He stands five feet, 10 inches tall. He weighs 155 pounds. He's got Jack Nicholson's hairline, C. Everett Koop's beard. He attended the University of Miami, and he thinks he graduated, although he doesn't recall attending any classes at that fine institution...
Bleary-eyed loyalty is nothing new to Allis, though. Colleagues know Sam best for his engaging wit and his tendency to immerse himself in a good story. While on the presidential campaign trail with Walter Mondale in 1984, Allis grew a beard, overate on the campaign plane and "became somewhat Orson Wellesian," recalls a comrade. In other phases, he's been lean and mean. "Sam is indefatigable, and his enthusiasms are boundless," observes George Russell, who edited this week's cover package. "He throws himself at things. That's one of the reasons he's so good at what...
...Harvard, Fauth's obvious stand-out characteristic is his age--he is 35 and a sophomore at the College. At first glance, it seems as if his first-year facebook picture is one of those jokes which the facebook editors like to stick in for fun: Fauth has a beard, and he is surrounded on all sides by posed high school yearbook photos...
Sadly enough, few students can transform these initial ideas into workable parodies. Henry Beard '67 and Christopher Cerf '63 are two who could. Former members of the Harvard Lampoon, Beard and Cerf helped found the National Lampoon and have since worked on a number of humor books. Their latest effort, The Book of Sequels, combines one-joke zingers with several inspired parodies of literary classics...
...Jordan's King Hussein mounts a last-ditch effort for peace, he is sporting a silvery new beard. Some of the King's subjects believe he is trying to appear more pious as the gulf conflict heats up. Just after Hussein grew the beard, he appointed members of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood to his Cabinet, thereby including that group in the government for the first time. Others see the beard's purpose differently, concluding that months of fruitless diplomacy have caused the King's stress-induced skin rash to act up again...