Word: lbis
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will not stop then, I am sure, for frying is only one of the penalties that have been risked for the lbis. In 1953, for example, during the tense negotiations between Americans and Korean Communists over the return of American war prisoners, the lbis flew into the national Cold War and the Lampoon rescued it only after high-level embarrassment. When the bird disappeared the Crimson was immediately suspect. The same day, April 26, Managing Editor George S. Abrams '54 and President Michael Maccoby '54 diappeared, and the Crimson was informed by anonymous phone call that they would...
...LAMPOON was ultimately forced to release the two Crimson editors in the face of serious Federal charges, involving kidnapping invividuals and then transporting them across state lines. The lbis however was not yet returned...
Maccoby and Abrams, released from their place of imprisonment in upstate New York, did not return directly to Cambridge. Instead they went to the headquarters of the Russian delegation to the U.N. at 680 Park Ave. in New York. They presented the lbis to the Russians on behalf of the Lampoon in hopes that the bird would be able to reside on top of one of the spires of Moscow University in the Kremlin. In a rare press conference, Semyon K. Tsarapkin, Deputy Representative of the U.S.S.R. to the U.N., accepted the lbis as a symbol of good-will between...
...Lampoon has long been master of kidnapping, though the ransom is not always so high. In what may have been the first instance of lbis stealing, in 1941, five Crimson editors were bound, gagged, and buried in copies of their own newspaper. Coles Phinizy, president of the Lampoon, displayed Mafia-like toughness declaring, "The lbis is worth 150 dollars, and those guys aren't worth 20 dollars apiece. They'll get nothing but dried toast and an occasional drink of water until we do get it back." They got it back...
From 1953 to 1956 the lbis had no such hair-raising ordeals but was periodically stolen by a Crimson cartoonist, David Royce, known to his contemporaries as "the human fly.' Later it was also presented to Caroline Kennedy whose family seemed to understand the nature of the gift more readily than had the Russian delegates on Park Avenue...