Vacation ‘58, Foreword by John Hughes ‘08:
Written by DignanAt the time I wrote “Vacation ‘58″ I was working as a creative director at the Leo Burnett Company, a Chicago advertising agency. In servicing the Virginia Slims cigarette account, I traveled weekly to New York. During those trips I frequently excused myself from multi-martini lunches and early flights home to go to the National Lampoon magazine offices and angle for a writing assignment. After many hours over many weeks of sitting on a worn, cloth couch in the reception area, trying to coax a reaction from aloof staffers and freelancers, I was kindly invited by Editor-in-Chief Tony Hendra into an office where he explained how one becomes an editor. It amounted to writing filler. I was delighted.
