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...years that followed his disappearance, looking for Fawcett practically became a fad. One would-be rescuer, an English movie actor named Albert de Winton, was found by some Indians years later "floating, naked and half-mad, in a canoe." (They promptly killed him.) In 1979, Fawcett's signet ring came to light in a shop in Brazil. The man himself never...
...writer’s humble background became a factor later, when the Signet Society—Harvard’s social club of arts and letters—almost did not accept Updike into their cloistered circle. Then-Crimson President Michael Maccoby ’54 nominated Updike for inclusion in the Signet, but Updike was not able to pay the membership...
...said to them, ‘Let me just tell you something: if you don’t let John Updike into the Signet Society, you’re going to regret it for the rest of your lives,’” Maccoby said yesterday...
...According to Maccoby, the Signet Society then waived all of Updike’s fees...
Just who are these bookish rascals? As FM’s resident “meddling kids,” we knew we had to protect the English concentrators and Signet hopefuls who would fall prey to the allure of such clandestine clubs—they wouldn’t be safe outside of 21 South Street. It was time for some serious sleuthing...