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- John O'Hara, according to The New Yorker contributor and Yale alum Brendan Gill, wanted desperately to have gone to Yale. "People used to make fun of, but it was never a joke to O'Hara. It seemed... that there wasn't anything he didn't know about in regard to college and prep-school matters." Hemingway once said, cruelly, "Someone should take up a collection to send John O'Hara to Yale." George V. Higgins opined that the reason Yale University Library has the manuscript of BUtterfield 8 and the galley proofs of Appointment in Samarra is that O'Hara was "foraging for honors:"
- Former Yale president Kingman Brewster was forthright — and supercilious — in his explanation of O'Hara's disappointments in New Haven: he said Yale didn't give him an LL. D. degree "because he asked for it."
- In a newspaper column, O'Hara attempted to make light of the matter, writing: "If Yale had given me a degree, I could have joined the Yale Club, where the food is pretty good, the library is ample and restful, the location convenient, and I could go there when I felt like it without sponging off friends. They also have a nice-looking necktie."
- The Doonesbury comic strip, by Garry Trudeau, originated in the Yale Daily News as "Bull Tales," a strip about local campus events and situations. Several characters in the Doonesbury strip were based on people associated with the university. The character B.D. was originally based on Yale football quarterback Brian Dowling; Dowling's teammate Calvin Hill was featured as "Calvin" in the early years of the strip. President King of the fictional Walden College was based on Yale president Kingman Brewster, and longtime Yale chaplain Rev. William Sloane Coffin provided part of the basis for the Rev. Scot Sloan, the chaplain at Walden in the strip.
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