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Harold LeClare Ickes turned his curmudgeonly thumbs down on Gerald L. K. Smith's request for a Yellowstone Park buffalo as an "American First" mascot saying he doubted that any decent buffalo could "bear such a stigma." The Secretary of the Interior also suggested last fortnight that Hamilton Fish should be "fried not only on one side, but on both." This week Representative Fish sizzled into rhyme...
...Marine hero of the Tarawa battle was Siwash, an artillery battalion's mascot. Siwash is a duck. Landing with his outfit, Siwash spent 36 hours under fire, in the first 15 minutes of his invasion beat the stuffing out of a Jap rooster, attacked and routed a shell-shocked Jap pig. Siwash showed no battle strain...
...Club, an affair at which survivors swap tall tales about New York's famed Blizzard of 1888. An amateur meteorologist asked (and got) permission to use a cast-iron replica of Arpad atop his New Jersey weather station. At least one Army flyer has a mascot Arpad painted on his plane. Arpad even gets Christmas presents (last week a woman admirer sent him a nonskid perch made of sandpaper...
Famed abroad as official mascot of the squadron, Lady Moe grew less & less loved at home. Secret cuffs and kicks began to come her way. The public-relations officer of the base, to whom falls the task of handling Lady Moe's correspondence, transport and social arrangements, openly lamented the day she left Africa. Said he: "I joined the Air Forces to serve my country and look at me. I'm nothing but nursemaid to a goddamned jackass...
Died. Bob, black cat, No. 10 Downing Street's much-photographed "lucky" mascot; in London. He crossed the path of the late Neville Chamberlain during the Munich crisis, later made friends with Winston Churchill...