Word: mascot
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flower-laden raft from its moorings (it was recovered on time), tugged at nervous Don Knotts, who managed to keep his footing at the pool's edge, almost lifted Announcer Gene Rayburn off the diving board on the wings of a placard picturing Co-Sponsor Greyhound's mascot. But the show hung together and the pictures moved surely and crisply to the mainland, so that millions of viewers as far north as Toronto could join Steve Allen in Havana "on a romantic and starry night...
...Tebbetts first decided to break into baseball, he had to do some considerable plotting to get his first job. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." So, at II, Birdie Tebbetts got to be mascot and bat boy for New Hampshire's semi-pro Nashua Millionaires, went on from there to become big-league baseball's "Most Voluble Player" and one of its best managers. For a report on how Birdie used at least part of his bat-boy formula to push into...
Lips Like a Bird. Birdie started his scrambling when he was only eleven and determined to get the job of mascot on the Nashua (N.H.) Millionaires, a semi-pro baseball team that had just been organized in the New England mill town where he grew up. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." In those days, Birdie's hero was a former big-league catcher named Bill Haeffner. Bill lent the youngster a mitt, and Birdie's career began. Soon he could catch...
Stan DePinto, the mascot who grew into a full-time twirler, came out of his voluntary semi-retirement Saturday afternoon to lead the Harvard Band in its pre-game and half-time drills...
During the next years the Band used him mainly as a mascot, along with its regular twirlers, but after the war, Bill Reinhart, then drum major for the Band, accosted DePinto as he was walking across the Square one day, and "pressured" him into accepting the position of full-time twirler. From 1946 until 1954, when he went into his retirement, DePinto twirled at every home game and most of the away games...