Word: birdmen
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Desperation was evidently a necessity for the birdmen after the mysterious materializations of their revered relic in Boston Thursday night. Despite elaborate attempts to snare their beast, the Poonsters got no more than a glimpse of Thresky during the evening...
Most of the history of the "feud" with the Ibisters, the Birdmen, (occasionally called the Funnymen), more vulgarly referred to as Lampoon editors, has passed on with the times, or else was pure imagination to start with. Year after year, a perusal of springtime Crimsons reveals, the Poon was mortgaged or sold or taken over by their trustees or by the Crimson. For no less than 24 years, the 'Poon has been unable to vary their losing score in the annual baseball game from the inevitable...
...first meeting as a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Able, ailing 59-year-old "Hap" Arnold had been retired after 42 years of soldiering, 34 years of it in the air, seven years of it as boss of the air forces. The Army's birdmen had flown a long way from the Army's nest in that time, would soon fly away, never to return. Tooey Spaatz, sure by all signs to boss the U.S.'s first separate Air Force, had big plans for the future...
...ships would not come out and fight, they must be hunted down in their yards. Vice Admiral Marc A. Mitscher's birdmen found good hunting at Kure and Kobe on the Inland Sea. In one day they damaged one or two battleships; two or three larger carriers, two medium carriers and two escort carriers; two cruisers and a dozen smaller craft. Six small freighters were definitely sunk...
...Uneasy Side. But the off-record remarks were more hopeful than assured. They remembered that Jake Fitch was still commanding minelayers and destroyers when early birdmen like Jack Towers (now deputy commander in the Pacific under Admiral Chester Nimitz) and Marc Mitscher (the Navy's No. 1 carrier task-force commander in the Pacific) were briskly testing the wings of the weapon destined to revolutionize naval warfare...