Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Spend any time listening to Peter Yarrow, the folk musician who died Tuesday at 86, and you’re bound to discover “Puff, the Magic ...

Peter, Paul, and Mary gave us Puff the Magic Dragon, a timeless song about the magic of youth. Unsurprisingly, it was based on a poem by a 19-year-old Cornell student, Leonard Lipton. Whether it's on ...

It’s the age of the dragon. Thanks to television shows like Game of Thrones, the mythological creature is well known to people all around the world. But even before the popular HBO television show ...

First, there was the 1962 song made famous by folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then, a 1979 juvenile fiction book adaptation by Romeo Muller. Now, Puff the Magic Dragon, the familiar children’s tale ...

He used the royalties earned from the hit folk song, based on a poem he wrote in college, to fund decades of research into stereoscopic projection. By Clay Risen Lenny Lipton, who as a college ...