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...Lampoon's Ibis disappeared again early Friday morning. The metal bird had been up only since Thursday afternoon. An investigation is being conducted to determine the cause of Thresky's disappearance...
Clymer went on to say that the CRIMSON had dropped the Lampoon from its regular schedule. "We would have liked to play them, of course, since the 'Poon is more serious than the Council and would not try to make a joke out of this thing. However, the entire Lampoon membership has been detailed to guard duty on the Ibis, and they just won't come out and play." The CRIMSON is asking Commissioner Frick to put the Lampoon into a Class D League...
...high price of Cambridge liquor or the low level of undergraduate living. It may be the sad souls of the war babies or the hard hearts of Radcliffe girls. But whatever the cause, the Lampoon has gone and done it again...
Perhaps the funniest part of the present "foreign intrigue issue" is an ad on page nineteen--"Subscribe now to the Harvard Lampoon ... a magazine of humorous significance." Running a close second is an ad for the Casino Theatre on the opposite page which proclaims with two pictures "The return of happiness...IRMA THE BODY." Irma may be fairly repulsive, but she is pretty funny...
After the sexy pictures, the cartoons attract the most attention. These vary from mediocre to wretched except for the charming and disarming works of a sophomore Poonster, James D. Stanley. His talent, not to mention his sense of humor, are a refreshing change of pace. Apparently the Lampoon took note of this, because he was just elected President...