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...mysterious disappearance of the Ibis, sacred bird of the Lampoon, was cleared up yesterday afternoon by the announcement of Paul Brooks '31, president of the comic magazine, that it had been recovered. Brooks refused to divulge the ways and means of recovery...
Rumors, which began with a mysterious long-distance call to a Boston newspaper, that the Ibis, traditional and sacred bird of the Harvard Lampoon, was stolen from the Sanctum of the Lampoon Building Wednesday evening, found credence in the admission by Paul Brooks '31, President of the organization, that it was missing yesterday morning...
...CRIMSON reporter late last night, Brooks admitted the absence of the Ibis. "We missed it this morning, but have no definite proof of the robbers," he said. "However, we are not worrying about it as they are sure to return it." He refused to discuss the value of the bird...
...presence of a Connecticut car causes the view in some quarters that the sacred bird was stolen by Yale undergraduates in reprisal for the Harvard paper's famed coup of the Yale fence last fall. At the time of writing no answer had been received from the Yale News in response to a query earlier in the evening whether the rumors are also current on the Eli campus. In most quarters, however, the suspicion prevails that the robbery is merely a myth invented by the Lampoon as another of its notorious publicity stunts for its forthcoming issue...
...study in the American Academy at Rome) are always scholarly, conservative. Those which were announced last week to have captured the awards for 1930 were religious as well. William Marks Simpson Jr., the winning sculptor, made a youthful, upright image of St. Francis of Assisi benignly inspecting a bird. Salvatore De Maio, Prix-winning painter, achieved an interesting composition called The Complete Sacrifice, the figures of Christ, Mary and Mary Magdalene forming oblique patterns with the bars of the tilted cross from which Christ has just been removed...