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Four days ago, we might have believed that the persons who made off with the sacred symbol of the 'Poon--the Ibis, affectionately known as Thresky--had not known what they were about. We might have believed that the venerated old bird, blown down from his perch atop the Lampoon building, had been carried off by children or others without malicious intent...
This newspaper has long enjoyed a friendly rivalry with the local humor magazine, the Lampoon. Traditionally, the two publications have, in all good fun, jibed each other, played pranks, and waged forms of minor war. But in moments of misfortune, deep-rooted sympathies based on our common heritage appears. This hour of Lampy's loss is such a time...
...Lampoon and the Union played unwilling parts in a pre-Hallowe'en prank yesterday morning. At about 7:30 a.m., police found a bison head on the steps of the 'Poon building...
...inside back cover of the freshman issue of the Lampoon is an advertisement for Springs Cotton Mills which is by far the most amusing thing in the entire magazine. But this is not said in disparagement of the new Lampoon, which is as far above the quality of last year's issues as Springs Mills ads are above the general level of American huckstery...
Hearst retained a warm spot all his life for the Lampoon. Last fall he ordered all his newspapers to kill the story of the magazine's confiscation as pornography by the Cambridge District Court. He also subscribed heavily to the bond issue which financed the present Lampoon structure...