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George A. Plimpton ’48, the literary critic and legendary prankster whose career as a humorist began at the Harvard Lampoon, died Thursday at his Manhattan apartment...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Plimpton exhibited his Lampoon-cultivated humor when, as an April Fools’ joke in 1985, he wrote an article for Sports Illustrated profiling Sidd Finch, a fictitious Harvard dropout who learned to throw a 168-mile-per-hour fastball while studying yoga at a Tibetan monastery...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Plimpton’s Harvard years were dominated by his involvement in the Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

Plimpton “majored in Lampoon and minored in everything else,” said Robert C. Cobb ’48, a fellow member of the Lampoon...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

...night of their induction into the Lampoon, Cobb said Plimpton was so drunk that he “ran out into the street and was run over by a parked...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Legendary Humorist, Poonster Dies at 76 | 9/29/2003 | See Source »

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