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More characteristic of the attitude toward problems outside of Cambridge was a prank perpetrated by Crimson editors two years earlier. After stealing the sacred mascot of the Lampoon--a large metal stork--the Crimson gave the bird to the Soviet embassy in Washington, a gift from American students to Joseph Stalin. The Lampoon promptly contacted McCarthy's committee to report an incident of obvious Communist sympathizing...
...abdication as the Duke of Windsor. His pitiful progress from resort to spa was followed by millions. All those awful photographs of the Duchess and the Duke, his skin scalded by flashbulbs, black ashtrays crowding the table like visas from a purgatorial kingdom of nightclubs: El Morocco, the Stork, the Lido. Those craterous eyes, staring off sidelong past the camera into the unforgiving background of history, which would soon reveal him as a dupe of fascism, an anti-Semite and a racist...
...York, O'Hara continued his drinking and romances at the Stork Club, El Morocco, Larue, the Algonquin and Rudy Vallee's nightclub. At St. Martin and Mino's, on East Fifty-Second Street, he met Wolcott Gibbs, fiction editor of The New Yorker, who became a lifelong friend. In his novels and short stories, O'Hara renamed Pottsville Gibbesville in the editor's honor...
...Raiders boast a parallel on defense, Ted Hendricks, the Mad Stork. Together with "Dark Days" Lester Hayes--who recalls Dick "Night Train" Lane, having picked off 18 passes in 19 games--Hendricks will vanguard the Raiders' effort to eviscerate the birds...
...locomotive headlight and a fine-looking Stetson. He and the 23 other members of the Cowboy Artists of America are having a show and sale at the Phoenix Art Museum. Beeler and John Hampton, who was born in New York City-dropped down the wrong chimney by the stork, he says-and two other men founded the group back in 1965 to tip the odds on Western art in the direction of survival. Last year the 14th annual sale brought in over $870,000, but this year the cowboys hope to make real money. They are, in fact...