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Joseph Diliberto’s portrait in the 1939 Pasticcio<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In February 2015, Smithsonian.com ran a story about the goldfish-swallowing fad<\/a> that swept across campuses in 1939. What began as a lark — one Harvard student gulping a goldfish to win a $10 bet — quickly morphed into an all-out competition, with colleges scrambling to outdo one another. As the figures rose — 25 downed by a University of Pennsylvania student, 42 by a guy at MIT — it became apparent that the eventual winner would need to be a man with an iron gut and a nonexistent gag reflex.<\/p>\n

According to the Smithsonian story, Clark University student Joseph Diliberto ’39 was such a man. In April of that year, Diliberto reportedly consumed a then-record 89 goldfish in one sitting and lived to tell the tale.<\/p>\n

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From Clark magazine, spring 2015 <\/em><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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