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...able to start. In that case Benchley, who has never been able to get to first base, may take over the position. Another last-minute substitution that Jester, coach of Lampy, has in mind, is replacing Z. Zwoncus, Jr., son of Z. Zwoncus, Sr., former catching great for the funnymen, with Bobby Bunker at short. Bunker, who makes a hit anywhere, is anxiously awaiting his chance, it is said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: S O S ~ S O S "Lampoon" Building Quakes S O S As cri CRIM CRIM CRIMSON Storm, whish, Approaches | 5/20/1937 | See Source »

Delivered by a Western Union messenger in a large box, Sibi was but one more example of the CRIMSON giving the Lampoon the bird, and like the unusual goose it is, Sibi immediately began to honk and throw the funnymen into confusion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sends Lampy a Goose; Other Admirers Donate Piano, Persian Rug, and Hawaiian Band | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

Three irate, dusky, and somewhat incoherent Hawaiians were the first visitors. They brought a slap base, a big drum, and a sweet guitar but all in vain. The funnymen just wouldn't let them stay and at last report the unhappy musicians were walking toward Boston...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sends Lampy a Goose; Other Admirers Donate Piano, Persian Rug, and Hawaiian Band | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

Next came a nice man with a big piano. Perhaps there was some connection, but once more the funnymen gave the nice man definite instructions what to do and it was to go very quickly were the temperature is much warmer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sends Lampy a Goose; Other Admirers Donate Piano, Persian Rug, and Hawaiian Band | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

...then last Saturday in New York President Benchley of the Lampoon was handed the sacred object by a CRIMSON editor who felt like those other CRIMSON men when they lent Lampy the punchbowl. Unfortunately this funniest of the funnymen let the Ibis slip through his fingers and arrived once more in Cambridge with nothing but an old towel receptacle in place of his beloved Ibis. And now once more the Ibis has come to life and posed for photographers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Sends Lampy a Goose; Other Admirers Donate Piano, Persian Rug, and Hawaiian Band | 3/18/1937 | See Source »

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