Word: yorke
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...October 1953 for staging an impromptu 3 a.m. concert on Yale's Old Campus. The most elaborate stunt may have been The Crimson's theft of the Lampoon's symbol, its beloved Ibis, in April 1953. The Crimson then donated the statue to the Soviet embassy in New York as a gift from the students of America to those of the USSR. The treasurer of the Lampoon called on Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy to investigate this trafficking with the enemy...
William O. Taylor is publisher of the Boston Globe, and Richard Eder is theater critic of The New York Times...
...very funny feeling to wake up suddenly and realize that it's time for the 25th Reunion," Stephen Weiner '54, now a partner in a New York law firm, said yesterday as he stood outside the Union. "This is something I'd heard about since I was a freshman at Harvard--I didn't come for any of the others, but when it came time for the 25th I told the family we had to make the trip," he added...
...Baker reader until she began working on this week's cover. "Baker is an acquired taste," says Rudulph, now a convert. "It takes a little more effort to read him, but you get a lot back." She interviewed several of Baker's colleagues at the New York Times, close friends like NBC Anchorman John Chancellor and Author David Halberstam, and a number of other leading humorists, including S.J. Perelman and, in a sense, Benjamin Franklin. (Franklin was the nation's first regularly published humor columnist, and Rudulph dug up an early example of his work.) "Everybody...
...wanted to know why that engine had broken away from the plane. The most obvious possibility was that it had ingested a flock of birds or airport debris and thus exploded. This had happened to another DC-10 and its General Electric engine (the CF6) on takeoff at New York's Kennedy Airport in 1975, when a number of seagulls had been caught in its internal blades. But the crew was able to abort the takeoff without injury. Another possibility was that the engine fan assembly had disintegrated in flight. That had happened to a DC-10 near Albuquerque...