Word: penguin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alan Freed, Former dean of New York City disc jockeys and originator of rock 'n' roll, has recently acclaimed the Lampoon's new dance, the Penguin, as a dance sensation that will sweep the nation...
...enough to make a penguin take to the bottle; but Gleason, dieting, munched his Ry-Krisp without benefit of sauce. Although he can, as Susskind says, "put away more Scotch per square hour than any man alive," he rarely drinks on the job. The Gleason legend has much to float on, but he proudly insists that he has never missed a show because of drinking. "I'm a heavy drinker when I drink," Gleason generalizes, "because I can put away a bundle of booze before the lights go out. I like it. Some people like to climb mountains...
...Penguin" is a success, it may be reproduced as a 45, Cerf said. He mentioned that the Lampoon may attempt publicity of the new step on a Dick Clark type" television show...
Also featured will be "The Penguin," complete with directions for a new dance. Songwriter Christopher B. Cerf '63 said the song has an original rock 'n' roll rhythm and is designed to compete with with such non-'Poon creations as "The Twist...
...night, everybody is there-cops, professors, bums, Wall Street customers' men, out-of-work actors with Biblical haircuts, dye-blonde actresses with bright blue eyelids; sailors in summer whites, girls in their summer dresses, girls in slacks, pony-tailed skinks from Greenwich Village, and novice beards with the Penguin Classics in the hip hip pockets of their dungarees-fabricating laughter in all the archaic places. The crowd begins on folding chairs around a large and multi-proned stage, then spreads out onto bleachers and grass-covered slopes. About 3,500 turn up in Manhattan's Central Park each...