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With his disheveled hair and dark-rimmed spectacles, Wojnilower looks more like a physicist than a financier. An intensely private person, he shuns speech-making and generally reserves his opinions for clients and superiors at First Boston. Says he: "I play something of a court jester role here. Anyone else who told the truth would lose his head for sure...
...unusually complex role among Gilbert and Sullivan leading tenors, Fairfax begins as a thoroughly sympathetic character. But by the end of the operetta, he becomes a callous rake, and his marriage to the strolling singer Elsie Maynard leaves two characters heart-broken: Phoebe and Jack Point, the jester who loves Elsie...
Davies, lead singer, composer and prime mover of the Kinks, has always been a jester who sings as if he enjoys a good joke, a long cry and a stiff drink, sometimes all at once. Early Davies songs such as A Well Respected Man and Dedicated Follower of Fashion were sardonic assaults on both sides of what was then called the generation gap and what now seems less like a chasm than a split but sewable seam...
Douglas A. Ames '80, a former treasurer of the humor magazine, believes the omission was a response to his recent threat to sue the Lampoon if it published the issue in its original form because it included a "Jester, Ibis, Blot" column on pages four and five that he said was "vindictive and malicious" toward...
Ames noted that the masthead, which appeared on the same ripped out pages as the "Jester, Ibis, Blot" piece, was missing "for the first time in the Lampoon's history...