Word: lampooner
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...gift, a copper weather vane in the likeness of an ibis, had been stolen just days earlier from atop the castle of The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. Editors at The Harvard Crimson, the campus daily and longtime rival of the Lampoon, immediately claimed responsibility for the heist...
...sent a telegram to the Russian embassy in New York indicating the Lampoon would like to give its ibis for a replacement on the spire of the new University of Moscow as a ‘symbol of the universality of the search for truth,” recalls George S. Abrams ’54, then managing editor of The Crimson...
Among the kidnappers, according to Maccoby, was Lampoon President John H. Updike ’54, whom The Crimson had made a habit of pillorying in regular reviews of the magazine. But with the Crimson president now in his custody, Updike firmly demanded the ibis’s return...
When The Crimson reported the next day on the Soviets’ gracious acceptance of the ibis, Updike and the Lampoon set out to retrieve their prized weather vane, penning an explanatory note to the Russian embassy and requesting the ibis’ return...
Petitions at Harvard and Radcliffe garnering as many as 300 signatures, which Abrams says were not solicited by the newspaper, urged the Lampoon to abandon its attempt to retrieve the ibis “from the Russian people and the University of Moscow,” according to reports in The Crimson...