Word: lampooner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mysterious disappearance of the Ibis, sacred bird of the Lampoon, was cleared up yesterday afternoon by the announcement of Paul Brooks '31, president of the comic magazine, that it had been recovered. Brooks refused to divulge the ways and means of recovery...
Rumors, which began with a mysterious long-distance call to a Boston newspaper, that the Ibis, traditional and sacred bird of the Harvard Lampoon, was stolen from the Sanctum of the Lampoon Building Wednesday evening, found credence in the admission by Paul Brooks '31, President of the organization, that it was missing yesterday morning...
...only definite clue in the hands of the investigators, it is said, was the report of one of the Harvard special police force that he had heard the Lampoon bell ringing at four o'clock in the morning. As the bell is customarily rung only on initiation nights, he decided to investigate the case. Approaching the building, he said, he perceived a car with Connecticut license plates, and containing several occupants, bear away from the side door at a high rate of speed...
...time of writing no answer had been received from the Yale News in response to a query earlier in the evening whether the rumors are also current on the Eli campus. In most quarters, however, the suspicion prevails that the robbery is merely a myth invented by the Lampoon as another of its notorious publicity stunts for its forthcoming issue...
...undergraduate at Harvard. Cary was connected with the Freshman Red Book, the Dramatic Club, the Lampoon, and the Harvard Monthly. During the Great War, he enlisted in July, 1917, served in the 301st Field Signal Battalion, and rose from the rank of private to sergeant. His service in France lasted from July, 1918 until...