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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 »

...more memorable Lampoon pranks, Plimpton—riding a horse and clad in a British military uniform—stole the microphone from Gov. Robert F. Bradford ’23 during a ceremony in Lexington commemorating Paul Revere’s midnight ride, according to Cobb...

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

...Poonsters] yelled, ‘disperse, ye rebels,’ but nobody dispersed, and the affair died without a bang but with a whimper,” Cobb said. “They expected that state troopers would tackle them, but nobody moved...

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

...life to live over again, I think I would have been George Plimpton,” Cobb said...

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

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