Word: lampooning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Weighed down with the rust of neglect, Threskiornis aethiopica--"Ibis" to you--soared yesterday into the jetstream. Witnesses to the event, which occurred soon after dawn atop the Lampoon edifice, felt the legendary bird would probably head toward ski country, where it was hoped a weekend of relaxation might serve to arrest seemingly irreversible heart damage brought on by years of Lampoon care...
Sources closer to the Ibis read into yesterday's move a stern warning against hypocrisy in American life. It is said the Ibis disapproved strongly of the Lampoon's New York Times parody, frowing most particularly on a claim that the word "seized" had been mispelled by intention. Irresponsibility is one thing, the Ibis is said to feel, while patent untruths are quite another
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, Times president and publisher, said last night that the Lampoon parody did not come as a complete surprise. "I became suspicious last spring when the Lampoon ordered 1500 March 2 issues," he said...
Andrew Heiskell, Chairman of the Board of Time Magazine, said last night that the Time-Life Corporation will "certainly keep an eye on" the Times-Lampoon case. "If the Times wins this suit," Heiskell said, "it will give us the green-light for action against the Lampoon parody...
Thomas S. LaFarge '69, Lampoon president, said last night his organization would not return the 800 newspapers stolen from Harvard hallways. "We sold them to a waste paper dealer for $2.37," LaFarge said. "It was our biggest sale since the Playboy parody...