Word: thayer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...undergraduate at Harvard, Thayer achieved literary distinction in almost every way possible. In addition to being president of the Lampoon, Thayer was chosen to be the Class Day Ivy orator. And as a junior, he wrote the Hasty Pudding play...
...friend of Thayer's from the Lampoon named William Randolph Hearst--who was expelled from Harvard and never graduated, because of a fondness for practical jokes--took over the Examiner shortly after Thayer graduated...
Hearst asked his former Poonmate to contribute to the paper's Sunday supplement. And under the alias of "Phin," Thayer published a series of ballads and humorous poems of which only "Casey" made history...
Many besides Thayer called the poem their brainchild. The most persistent claim was that of George Whitefield D'Vys. Although his story changed in a few times, one version had D'Yys writing the verse in Cambridge Common with his mother. As he finished the poem, a runway horse forced them to leave. D'Yys returned to find his poem stolen...
Even though many writers declared the mystery about the author settled, D'Vys swore he wrote "Casey" all the way to his grave. In fact, he once accused Thayer of stealing his poem form the Cambridge Common...