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Robert C. Benchley, Jr. '43 of Scarsdale, New York and 45 Mount Auburn Street, was elected president of the Lampoon at a meeting last night, and will head the Board of Editors next year...
...Harvard can take anything," stated the author, tongue in check, when he was questioned about the probable response here to the movie's sathe of the University. A pre-war graduate who has already celebrated his twenty-fifth reunion, the former Lampoon editor admitted that he doesn't "understand the modern Harvard man, the 1941 model. The engine and carburetor are the same," he claimed...
...holds his nose and they sneer. Once they took singing lessons, but apoplectic Manager Levy stopped that, pronto, for fear they would be ruined. The sisters have also appeared in four movies, one of which, Argentina Nights, so infuriated Argentine audiences that it had to be withdrawn. The Harvard Lampoon voted this performance the "most frightening" of the year...
...ready to work on the College buildings in case of a bombing." Turning towards a cigar-smoking clerk, he added: "That is, if we can depend on 'em. They think everything's a big joke. Why, we had to send a ladder truck down last spring to get a Lampoon man off the roof of his own building." But feeling in the delta of Cambridge Street and Broadway is friendly to the Harvards. "They don't give us much trouble," one burly engine-driver confided with a wink, "but if they don't each buy a ticket to our next...
...Woodworth visit brought nothing but trouble to Harvard and to the Lampoon. It wasn't her fault. She did what she was told. Kambers dragged her everywhere, condescending to allow her to attend the dance for all of fifteen minutes, just time for the newsreel cameras, undoubtedly run by her home studio, to whirr. As a crowning disgrace. Kambers and the Boston newshounds got her to pause for a luscious bit of cheesecake in the lap of the John Harvard statue. When Marjorie departed from Boston the morning after, the Lampoon knew it was through with Hollywood. The visit hurt...