Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hungry uglies, also reads smoothly. But in the Lampoon's one non-movie story. Fish Old of Water by Arlen, it is easy to see why the 'Poon so often draws yawns instead of chuckles. It's the old formula. St. Mark's boy meets sub-deb at yacht club party; he tries to give the impression of being a world-wise man about the beach, she--a sophisticate. Girl sets fast pace for a while, but finally breaks down and acts her age. The humor here is pretty grim, and it is about time the Lampoon found itself...
Moonlight slithered down through the cool breeze that came off the Mediterranean to toy with Pandora's the small yacht which nestled at anchor in the cove below...
Only the flying Dutchman, whom fate told her was waiting on that strange yacht in the cove, was for Pandora, "the darling of the gods." He'd been alive and roaming the seven seas with a ghost crew for seven times seven years. So she stripped and swam out to his yacht. And a tidal wave swept over the yacht and killed Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, which, our narrator assured us, was a good thing. Our narrator was a man of consumate wisdom, a Greek scholar and bearded, and his word on affairs of this sort cannot be questioned...
Roger A. Swanson; Kirkland; House Athletic Secretary; Varsity and Freshman tennis, PBH; Outing Club; Harvard Yacht Club; House hockey, basketball, tennis, baseball...
...Athens, at a charity benefit showing of the movie Tales of Hoffmann, King Paul, accompanied by Queen Frederika, hobbled to his seat on crutches. Nursing a sprained knee, which he had twisted recently on his yacht, the King insisted on keeping the theater date...