Word: roofs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Lampoon's Great Hall became vulnerable to seasonal showers, and editors began to wear galoshes in the building, the more perspicacious Poonsters decided the roof was probably leaking. In an attempt to divert a disastrous spring flood, editors are pushing workers to their utmost. The original tiles are thrown at passers-by with reckless abandon, and now cold, dull slates are replacing the expensive Flemish tile roofing...
This seems rather akin to replacing the present White House with one of simulated clapboard. If the old motley red and orange roof was not especially beautiful, it did have character and an air of devil-may-care. But the new grey suggests only a drab conventionality which will mar the graceful, happy lines of Cambridge's oddest building. And it may also have the effect of reducing the high plane of Lampoon writing to a drab, humorless style. Witness the March issue...
...advance from the Treasury, the Government set up the Federal Housing Administration to insure loans for housebuilding and repair, thus spur the building industry. The experiment was a noble success. FHA's first insurance was on a loan for $125 to paint a house, repair the roof and install a water tank. Since then, the agency has insured mortgages on 3,940,000 housing units, and has made a total of 16 million loans for property improvement. FHA has not only been a mainstay of the postwar housing boom but has also been profitable. With a total...
Oliver C. Lobkowics '56, circulation manager of the publication, was the first to spot Skouras on the roof. He immediately called the police...
Cambridge police yesterday climbed up elaborate scaffolding to prevent Hollywood producer Spires Skouras from removing tiles from the roof of the Lampeon building, on Bow St. Skouras was expressing his objection to the selection of his CinemaScope production. "The Robe," as number one on the Bow St. publication's list of the "ten worst movies at the year...