Thresky, sacred ibis of a local "humor" magazine, has returned to his perch atop the Lampoon building. The footloose golden bird reappeared upon the Cambridge scene early yesterday morning and issued an immediate statement describing his travels.
After watching the spooning midwesterners every night during Harvard Summer School, Thresky began to long for a little socializing with the better type of birds. Last August 18 he spread his great wings and hoisted himself off his perch. Shaking off a cluster of admiring Cambridge pigeons and starlings, he cruised down to New Haven and propositioned the Yale Record Owl regarding a joint junket through New York. The owl was at first a bit suspicious. "To woo?" she queried.
"Hell no, to get drunk," Thresky replied. They set a date, and Thresky spent the interval touring New England Thresky spent the interval touring New and attending the more important football games, including all three Harvard-Princeton-Yale contests.
On the appointed date two weeks ago, the tall bird returned to New Haven and rendezvoused with the owl, and the illicit migration was underway. In New York the two birds got stoned in the Stork Club, but were ejected by Sherman Billingsley when he discovered that Thresky was not a stork. Dizzy Gillespie at Birdland was more hospitable (see cut), but again the tipsy birds were booted when they began squawking and hooting in time with the music.
They discovered Central Park and all the usual corn, and were back in New Haven in time for last Saturday's badness. Disheartened by the game, the birds got drunk together, and decided to return to their chains. The owl gave herself up Saturday night, and Thresky, thoroughly demoralized, fluttered back to his lonesome prominence above Mt. Auburn St.
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