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UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., April 24--A representative of the Harvard humor magazine, the Lampoon, get the bird today from soviet United Nations delegate Semyou Konstantinovich Tsarapkin...
...there was nothing funny about it, according to Lampoon treasurer John Geetlet, of Newport, R.I., who retrieved the magazine's mascot, a 20-pound copper ibis, from the Russian Embassy in Manhattan this morning...
...goes smoothly, the Lampoon's much-traveled Sacred Ibis will return to Cambridge Friday from its present resting place at the Russian UN headquarters in New York...
...Russians yesterday received a detailed letter from John M. Updike, Lampoon president, explaining the gift of the bird and, after much confusion, agreed to the return--with minor reservations...
Maccoby and Abrams stated last night: "We are sorry that the supposed funny men of the Lampoon do not realize that humor is a great panacea for the world's ills and a strategic weapon in the present fight against Communism. It is sad, indeed, that such a petty sense of property has caused the Lampoon to crawl sniveling and whining to the state department. It is a move that can only sour the nation's laughter. For the state department to take a hand in returning the bird would be nothing short of appeasement...