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Another former Lampoon editor, Al Jean '81, who now writes for "The Simpsons," says he and Reiss made a point to fly back to Boston in order to meet the new prodigy...
According to Jean, when Burt Ward--who played Robin on TV's "Batman"--came to visit Harvard, Lampoon members dressed up as the Penguin and his crew and stole Ward's Robin suit...
...They haven't got anything we don't have," said Jean DeBeer '48 at the time...
...CIEN--which, read aloud, translates as either "o little dog" or "at the sign of the little dog." This is exactly the sort of feeble punning that Marcel Duchamp and Francis Picabia went in for--a staple of Dada and Surrealism. But its author was the antimodernist par excellence Jean-Leon Gerome, sworn enemy of Manet, Monet and everyone since. Which perhaps only shows that academics can be just as funny as Dadaists...
...DIED. JEAN-PIERRE RAMPAL, 78, virtuoso flutist who helped restore the instrument to the elevated position it occupied during the 18th century; in Paris. His repertoire ranged from the Baroque giants to jazz and Asian rhythms...