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...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...
...lbis disappeared again suddenly. After giving up on the Crimson, the Lampoon kidnapped the president of the Gargoyle, a rival publication, and then the president of the Mountaineering Club, whose ability to scale great heights was admired, feared, and suspected. Yet neither could give them any satisfaction and the lbis perch was left looking like a tack no one had gotten around to sitting...