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...Many of Updike’s friends on The Lampoon came from wealthier backgrounds, but that did not stop the young writer—who grew up in Reading, Pa. and attended a small-town public school—from rising to the helm of the nationally-known humor magazine...
...Updike’s playful side will forever be memorialized in one 1953 incident that pit The Crimson and The Lampoon against one another...
...Maccoby was walking back to Lowell House for lunch, Updike and three co-conspirators from The Lampoon burst out of a nearby building, grabbed him, and pushed him into a car, according to Maccoby...
...assume he orchestrated the whole thing,” Maccoby said of Updike, who was leading The Lampoon at the time. “He took credit...
...According to Maccoby, the Russians accepted the gift. It was crated up on the harbor—ready to be placed on a ship— when one of Updike’s minions from The Lampoon arrived to take it back to Mt. Auburn Street...