Word: stolen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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...
...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...
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...
Figuring that someone had stolen it and gotten stuck with it, the Harvard senior who placed this ad hoped that the captors of the lbis would be glad to get rid of it. He was apparently correct, for shortly thereafter a large white package, tied with heavy string was left for him at the Crimson...
Four years ago a housemaster of an Andover dormitory smelled something unusual as he walked upstairs. He then walked into a room where three sophomores were lying around spaced out on some ether they had stolen from the infirmary. All three were put on probation; and each eventually was kicked out, asked to leave (which people can and do say no to), or driven to quit by added restrictions...