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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Except for an imaginative story by Jos. F. Fletcher, Jr., and a memoir by Francis B. Biddle '09, which was cribbed from a forthcoming book and which has as its only relation to either humor or Lampy the mention of Lampoon twice, there is absolutely nothing worth reading in it...

Author: By Gavin R. W.scott, | Title: The Harvard Lampoon | 12/21/1956 | See Source »

*A portmanteau word, combining snake and shark, invented by Lewis Carroll for the ineluctable prey of his poem, "The Hunting of the Snark." One variety-the Boojum-had the power to make its hunter "softly and suddenly vanish away."

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMED FORCES: Escape of the Boojum | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

United Mine Workers' aging (76) Boss John L. Lewis has generally decried, as the Devil's work, employers' injunctions to stop picketing. Picket Patriarch Lewis, however, had a familiar hot potato tossed into his own hands last week. At several Atlantic coast ports, in a jurisdictional row...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Dec. 17, 1956 | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

Studio One offers Paul Crabtree's A Christmas Surprise (Dec. 24, 10 p.m., CBS), with Robert Q. Lewis and Orson Bean in a comedy about a TV show's disruptive visit to a family on Christmas Eve.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: HOLIDAY CHEER | 12/17/1956 | See Source »

In the third period the freshman forwards finally organized an effective attack, and both Rient and Graney scored two goals. Herb Lewis added the final Crimson score four minutes before the game's end.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Freshman Sextet Triumphs, 8-1; Yardling 'B' Squash Team Wins | 12/10/1956 | See Source »

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