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...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...
...plant of the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner, which has now been struck for eleven weeks, is virtually under siege. With a determination rarely displayed these days by a publisher confronted with a strike, George R. Hearst Jr., grandson of William Randolph, has struggled to continue publishing his afternoon paper. It has missed only two days since the strike began. Though its circulation has dropped from 726,000 to 500,000 and it prints two editions instead of six, it continues to reach the streets and subscribers with its usual heavy load of columnists, features and wire-service copy...
...great enterprise if the epitaph for our society turns out to read: 'All the best people bemoaned the quality of leadership, but none sought to lead.' " The coalition could well provide the means to erase that epitaph; headed by Negro Labor Leader A. Philip Randolph and Time...
Recollecting the time when the Advocate's style was "like that of a Harvard English professor," the member went on to suggest that Randolph Rheyns '68 and Mack Dewart '70 wrote their articles under the influence of drugs...
...zigzagging Italianate alley, designed a mysterious maze of stairways and pedestrian bridges. Martin, an unabashed eclectic, has refurbished an old Fifth Avenue double-decker bus for neighborhood excursions, is leasing a 13th century Moorish ceiling to one of the ladies' specialty shops. From the estate of William Randolph Hearst, he has purchased a 95-ft.-long oak-paneled gallery, said to have been designed by Inigo Jones and built by Queen Elizabeth I for her Ambassador to France, and installed it in The Cannery's English...