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...Lampoon had planned to defraud the Class of '69 with a 35-cent registration issue consisting of a masthead, 17 blank pages, and a final page that begins, "You have just been gypped by the Harvard Lampoon...
...Johnson, the old maestro of Senate consensus, who had naturally expected to be No. 1 New Frontiersman on Capitol Hill. Yet, to O'Brien's amazement, on the plane back from Dallas after Kennedy's assassination, Johnson asked him to stay on-and promised him "a blank check...
Principal LeVine denied that he had ever ordered such false grading on the transcripts. As best as anyone could make out, the marks were entered by two kindly clerks, Mrs. Ellen Sjogren, 62, and Mrs. Elizabeth Lammlin, 37, who claimed that LeVine merely signed batches of blank forms, which the ladies in turn filled out under a longstanding system. Asked to explain the grading system used on 75 transcripts, Mrs. Sjogren said: "I'm getting old. I can't even remember what I did last week...
...Russian icon with its blank-eyed stare and stiff frontal figures was, next to shop signs, the art he knew best. Those Eastern images lean away from pictorial realism toward symbolism, and he loved them, as he says, because they are both "magical and unreal...
...waited for most was the instant when a trim, 5-ft. 6-in. man, dressed in spotless white shirt and breeches with soft leather belt, bounded into the spotlight of the center ring and doffed his pith helmet. Then, whip in his right hand, a steel-reinforced chair plus blank-loaded pistol in his left, he would summon the first ferocious cat into the cage...