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Lisa Henson, 21, was a fast-talking freshman when she complained that the Harvard Lampoon was "the most sexist organization on campus." Hardly a sentiment to win her favor among the club's 45 members, almost all of them male. But over the past two years, the daughter of Muppet Creator Jim Henson clearly made a few "Poonie" friends. Last week she beat out all male rivals for the Lampoon's presidency, to become the first woman to achieve that position in the organization's 105-year history. The deciding factors, says a Lampoon staffer: "Consummate social...
Johnson added that only the Harvard Lampoon suffered by printing an article in the People Parody that said his famous glass house was wrecked after he threw stones. In fact, Johnson would rather pile up stones than throw them. "Building is as natural as eating or sex," he said, adding, "It may be more fun than eating...
...Brewer, owner of Brigham's, a traditional Phools' Week haunt, said he wasn't sure whether the Lampoon brigade stopped by this semester. "They may have--or they may have been nuts--we throw 'em all out," he said...
Jeff S. Martin '82, the Lampoon's president, refused to comment on the subject...
...They appeared out of the blue, figures in white, and did a curious dance," Sheldon L. Glashow, Higgins professor of Physics, said yesterday, describing a Lampoon visit to his Science A-20 lecture. "Then they disappeared to whence they had come," he added...