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...turn simply to the closing sentence of the three-page eulogistic history of the 'Poon prepared for this issue by Mike Arlen and Lew Gifford. "Whatever the case however, it has always printed what it wanted to, and, as far as we are concerned, that is about all one could ask for." If "one" is a present or past editor of the Lampoon (and judging by this issue there is a little need to separate the two) then this is a valid generalization. But for the majority of us, Lampy is too concerned with patting his own dogma to worry...
President and Mrs. Conant lunched at the Harvard Club of London last Tuesday, and shattered the Club's tradition of all-male meetings. President Conant, on a private visit to England, was introduced by Walter S. Gifford '05, American Ambassador to Great Britain...
...landing ramp at the Northolt airport near London, cracked: "This is Northolt, isn't it? I used to drink coffee here." He slept late on Sunday, sat around his Claridge's Hotel suite most of the day, then went to an informal dinner at U.S. Ambassador Walter Gifford...
They used to go down to Taylor's home evenings and shake the house with their practice sessions. "The Taylors' was a proving ground for our band," Gifford explains. "We really started to play well in ensemble there." During this period Kennedy enjoyed going to the house at night to sit with the boys...
Last year the band started off at the Savoy with the trumpet played by 20-year-old. Tufts graduate Paul Gibson, whom Gifford calls "the best jazz trumpeter this side of New York." Then they branched out. They went twice to Smith College (Gifford is carried away by the memory where 200 girls in sweat shirts and dungarees sat in a semicircle and shrieked for the real oldtimers like "Coal Cart Blues" (an Armstrong standby). And they found another faculty supporter in Roy Lamson, Jr. '29 clarinet-playing professor of Sociology at Williams...