Word: lampooner
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...anyone knows who has read the CRIMSON at any time during the past 50 years, there is a traditional baseball game between the editors of the CRIMSON and the Lampoon. There is also a traditional score of 23 to 2, in favor of the healthier and more rugged newspaper men. The "coincidence" is a little staggering...
...answer is that they are attempting to steal a respected CRIMSON-Lampoon tradition, just as they have attempted to steal everything from the invention of the telephone to the atom bomb. They realize that the 23-2 score is a thing that anyone would be proud to own, and they want it for themselves...
...tradition you make your own, you don't steal the one your neighbor has spent years making. That's the American way. If the Communists wanted a traditional score, they could have used 23-1, 23-3, or any number of other unclaimed lopsided numbers. Just because the Lampoon is in too weak a condition to protest, the Russians thought they could get away unchastised. Not so: the editors of the CRIMSON protest, and will not rest until our rightful score is returned...
While Douglas C. Bunce '50 President of the Lampoon, read congratulatory telegrams purportedly from Douglas MacArthur, Jules Verne, and others, the balloon was inflated with helium. Meanwhile, the crowd continued to grow at the conjunction of Bow and Mt. Auburn Streets. Bunce announced that Charles C. Osborne '52, well-known swimmer and aeronaut, would arrive with a motorcycle escort to make the free-balloon flight...
Upon hearing this, a group of heavier-than-air die-hards attempted to kidnap Osborne on Upper Plympton Street, near the offices of the CRIMSON. Osborne slipped through their fingers, however, and made his way to the Lampoon building by way of Linden Street...