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Born in Shillington, Penn., in 1932, Updike first submitted work to national magazines while in high school. At Harvard he was the president of the Lampoon, a semi-secret Bow Street social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Joey Shabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Updike Remembers Life of Writing | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

Students asked questions ranging from why one should write when everybody else is becoming an investment banker, to what effects new technology has had no his writing process. To each question Updike responded with his trademark dry humor and forthrightness...

Author: By Joey Shabot, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Updike Remembers Life of Writing | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...moniker Weld developed during his Beacon Hill days) is known for his mercurial style and wry sense humor. After signing legislation for cleaner rivers one summer he dove into the Charles River fully clothed...

Author: By Barbara E. Martinez, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Weld to Speak At Class Day Ceremonies | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...movement by declaring that she "will certainly not be in attendance" at It Takes A Woman, I challenge her to remember this caveat: "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Have faith in your fellow women and fellow actors. And above all, try to have a sense of humor. RACHEL McGREGOR '00 April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'It Takes a Woman' Signs Require a Sense of Humor | 5/1/1998 | See Source »

Molecular biologist Dean Hamer has blue eyes, light brown hair and the goofy sense of humor of a stand-up comic. He smokes cigarettes, spends long hours in a cluttered laboratory at the National Institutes of Health, and in his free time clambers up cliffs and points his skis down steep, avalanche-prone slopes. He also happens to be openly, matter-of-factly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Personality Genes | 4/27/1998 | See Source »

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