Word: bird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...penalties that have been risked for the lbis. In 1953, for example, during the tense negotiations between Americans and Korean Communists over the return of American war prisoners, the lbis flew into the national Cold War and the Lampoon rescued it only after high-level embarrassment. When the bird disappeared the Crimson was immediately suspect. The same day, April 26, Managing Editor George S. Abrams '54 and President Michael Maccoby '54 diappeared, and the Crimson was informed by anonymous phone call that they would not be returned until the lbis flew back to Freedom Square. A full board...
...place of imprisonment in upstate New York, did not return directly to Cambridge. Instead they went to the headquarters of the Russian delegation to the U.N. at 680 Park Ave. in New York. They presented the lbis to the Russians on behalf of the Lampoon in hopes that the bird would be able to reside on top of one of the spires of Moscow University in the Kremlin. In a rare press conference, Semyon K. Tsarapkin, Deputy Representative of the U.S.S.R. to the U.N., accepted the lbis as a symbol of good-will between the students of Russia...
...April 22, despite a college-wide petition urging the Lampoon to let the Russians keep the bird, and nation-wide press-coverage, the Lampoon announced that arrangements were almost completed to reclaim the bird. According to United Press International, John Goetlet, "handsome heir to one of New York's greatest real estate fortunes and treasurer of the Harvard Lampoon, spent a half hour explaining the subtleties of American college humour to Tsarapkin in his Park Avenue Headquarters. Asked by reporters to smile he replied, 'I am unsmiling...
When two years went by without a peep from the lbis, a classified ad appeared in the Crimson on October 5, 1963: "IBIS. Local Bird lover seeks large metal one last seen stop building on Bow Street. Send information to Crimson Box 3447. Confidential. No questions aked...
Rather than hand the bird over to the Lampoon, the senior created an intricate and powerful corporation known as Find-a-Bird Inc., promising to hunt down the lbis, around the world, if the Lampoon would agree to a lavish public ceremony upon receiving it back. The senior indicated that if the Lampoon didn't comply, Find-a-Bird might be dissolved to become Melt-a-Bird. When the lbis finally was ready to be returned to the Lampoon, the required celebration was arranged, before the Dartmouth Game at Freedom Square...