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...excitement of a shaving cream fight, the sophisticated delicacy of a neurosurgical operation, the cold reality of J. Edgar Hoover breathing down its neck, and usually a large dose of University Hall. The only remaining tradition in the hoax-and-dagger line is the stealing of the Lampoon lbis from its perch atop the Lampoon building...
...least once this year, the lbis was treated as ignominiously as a common pigeon, stolen from the 'Poonies only to be casually reclaimed in broad daylight, without a single shot being fired, as it sat, unguarded, in the bourgeois sedan in a Plympton Street parking lot. Though amazingly few remember it, there was a time, not long ago, when lives hung on such events and kidnappings, international politics, and bloody threats would be in the air when the lbis flapped its wings...
...lbis, formally known as Threskiornis aethiopica, was aprocryphally donated to the Lampoon by William Randolph Hearst in 1901, when the new Lampoon building was completed. Since its first happy years with the 'Poonies, the lbis, sometimes known as Threskie, has had several leaves of absence, many of them accountable to a century-long feud between the Harvard Crimson and the Harvard Lampoon. It has been stolen twice this year already, and has just returned to its perch. Now Lampoon members are threatening a 125-volt battery to fry anyone who gets playful with their pet in the future...
...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...
Shelvey, a resident of Cambridge, will join the Air Force shortly. He came to the Crimson Printing Company as its night man in October 1955. Known to many past CRIMSON editors, shelvey gained recognition as a parodles and, on one occasion, as the lbis of the Harvard LAMPOO...