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...Updike did a wonderful job in hosing this thing and asking he governor questions,” Johnson says. The politico spent half an hour speaking to the Lampoon editors before he realized that he had been fooled...
...according to Johnson, the young writer’s funniest work at the Lampoon never appeared in print. Staff members would regularly enter notes and jokes in a comment book kept open inside the building...
...perfectly evident that he pursued his studies with the same zeal and excellence that he turned out for the Lampoon,” Limpert says...
...same perfectionism that impelled him forward in the Lampoon lay behind this academic success. He researched a thesis called “Non-Horatian Elements in Robert Herrick’s Imitations and Echoes of Horace” and was frustrated when it didn’t snag a summa grade...
Johnson says he remembers when Updike left Lowell House to get married, but never noticed any change in the Lampoon president—or his work—in he months that followed...