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...this which for many years has played an important part in Lampoon mythology and tradition has been cast out and a new and smaller bird has been set up on its traditional pedestal...
Fifteen years have proven too much for its withered neck and tall feathers and now this bird, once honored and looked up to with wonder and awe, lies discarded in some dumping ground, the location of which could not be discovered according to Notman...
...Board banned Dawn as "inexpedient," thus drawing from the London Times a pompous twitter: "What is the nature of the inexpedience? . . . The adjective 'political' instantly suggests itself, and a political censorship, in whatever discreet feathers it be dressed is, in England at least, a remarkably ugly bird...
...Bird had been refused a pilot's license by the San Diego Air Control Board. His home-made monoplane had also been pronounced unfit to fly. Yet last week he took it into the air with four passengers, nose-dived 300 feet to earth while trying to avoid a midair crash with a big Maddux plane. Mr. Bird and his four passengers were killed instantly. The home-made monoplane was a twisted wreck in a field near Oldtown, Calif...
...Melcher '28, C. D. Stillman '30, and J. W. Valentine '29. Others in the cast are H. C. Fox '28, L. D. Parker '30, T. S. Kernan '29, C. F. Pforzheimer '28, W. T. King '30, G. P. Hamlin Jr. '30, W. L. Storey '30, J. R. Bird '29, P. H. Clark '30, and Paul Johnson...