Word: lampooning
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...surprise announcement last night, Find-A-Bird, Inc. revealed that the Lampoon's Ibis has flown the coop. A spokesman for the organization, which until yesterday promised to return the bird to the Lampoon, would say only that the Ibis flew away from a Find-A-Bird agent yesterday afternoon...
Woodward A. Wickham '64, Lampoon president, expressed "the profoundest regret" on learning that the bird was not to come home this Saturday. He added, "It is beyond belief that a bird-finding agency could be so incompetent as to let a priceless specimen out of its hands." Wickham also made it clear that the Lampoon had cancelled all plans for a mammoth celebration in Freedom Square tomorrow...
Apparently unfatigued after spanning oceans and continents, the Lampoon's long-lost Ibis turned up late yesterday over Lake Lucerne, Switzerland. Its picture was taken by a Harvard alumnus from a cable car ascending nearby Mt. Pllatus...
Lawrence M. Butler '64, who holds the office of "Ibis" (i.e. vice-president) on the Lampoon, said last night he was " the bird is returning to Cambridge." He declined to comment, however, on why his namesake seems to be taking the long way around...
...strange visitor down from a cloudless sky over Kyoto, Japan, yesterday morning, excitement among the residents of that ancient city. It was, of course, the missing Lampoon Ibis, and its brief appearance over Japan confirmed speculation that it had been heading for the Orient when last seen above San Francisco...