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Hollywood's latest attempt to publicize an actress through the Lampoon's annual "worst" list ran aground yesterday, when Lampy President Robert C. Benchley Jr. '43 laughed off a Coast-provoked Tufts College challenge to a public debate on the merits of Veronica Lake...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Poon Bored, Laughs Off Tufts Challenge | 1/28/1942 | See Source »

...material aspects of Harvard are concerned, Robert Benchley (the senior) or whoever did the technical work on the problem, succeeds fairly well. There are no burly football players nonchalantly sporting their "H's." No shots of the "campus," to which the players habitually refer, are shown. The general atmosphere is one of restraint and luxury, with an understandable accent on luxury...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 1/16/1942 | See Source »

...Robert Benchley Jr., 22, was made president of the Harvard Lampoon, campus comic magazine. Brother Nathaniel had the job four years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Free Agent | 12/29/1941 | See Source »

...Never Get Rich (Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 22, 1941 | 12/22/1941 | See Source »

...Never Get Rich (Fred Astaire, Rita Hayworth, Robert Benchley, Cliff Nazarro; TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Current & Choice, Dec. 15, 1941 | 12/15/1941 | See Source »

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