Word: lampooning
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...Updike served an eventful term as President of The Harvard Lampoon in 1953—kidnapping the president of The Harvard Crimson and orchestrating a close save of The Lampoon’s famed ibis statue. A noted perfectionist, he graduated summa cum laude the following year with a degree in English, before going on to a fellowship at Oxford and a job at The New Yorker...
...Lewis L. B. Gifford ’51, who worked with Updike on The Lampoon, said that Updike once showed him a bound volume of his early writings in his Hollis dorm room. The work had been typed by Updike’s mother, herself an aspiring writer who worked in a department store...
...Michael J. Arlen ’52 met Updike when he arrived at The Lampoon as a freshman with stack of clippings from his high school newspaper tucked under...
...head of John Updike, one of the great writers of the 20th century, who died from lung cancer on Tuesday at the age of 76. He grew up a clever, stuttering child in small-town Pennsylvania and went to college at Harvard, where he served as head of the Lampoon, the campus humor magazine, rather than its storied literary magazine, the Advocate. He dabbled in cartooning, and his first published work in the New Yorker consisted of light verse. (See pictures of John Updike...
...English major, Updike became president of The Harvard Lampoon in 1953, and graduated the following year summa cum laude, before serving a fellowship at Oxford University. His first poem appeared in The New Yorker...