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Vying with Jester, Pegasus and Mickey Sullivan for local literary honors, a group of harried and hurried newshawks nightly tramp the interesting by-paths of University life gleaning the facts and features that lie in finished form on your doorstep at six o'clock every morning...

Author: By Managing Editor and J. ROBERT Moskin, S | Title: IF COLLEGE PALLS, THE CRIMSON CALLS | 10/6/1942 | See Source »

Newcomer Thumper carries most of Bambi's comedy. Just a normal growing bunny, he won't eat his greens, and adds sly innuendoes to the maxims his mother makes him recite. As court jester to Bambi, who is a prince and must maintain a reasonable reserve, he is very funny. His inability to keep his itching foot from vibrating while making love to the beauteous Mrs. Thumper is great slapstick. So is the skating lesson he gives Bambi. "Come on," he coaxes, "the water's stiff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 24, 1942 | 8/24/1942 | See Source »

Quietly the Jester fell out of the Sanctum, as he heard a piercing shriek and a loud ringing noise from the next room...

Author: By O. E. Zweneus, | Title: Lightning Sets Off, Police Stop Alarm in Lampoon | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

...wrong, Blot," said the Jester, watching the flames lick up a Good Humor. "That's only the burglar alarm in Roger Kent's. The lightning must have set it off in some manner or other. It's pretty damn seldom what happens around here...

Author: By O. E. Zweneus, | Title: Lightning Sets Off, Police Stop Alarm in Lampoon | 7/31/1942 | See Source »

...many of her fabulous social antics 30 years ago) that 74-year-old John Graham Hope De la Poer Beresford, Baron Decies, was suing her for divorce on grounds of desertion. Once she was the wife of chilly Henry Symes Lehr, Society's top fop and unofficial Newport jester, whom she delicately peeled in her book "King Lehr" and the Gilded Age. She wrote that she had never been happy with him; of her present husband, once remarked: "I married Decies so I could attend the coronation." - - To the New York World-Telegram said Novelist John Steinbeck...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Aug. 18, 1941 | 8/18/1941 | See Source »

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