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...Most famous mascot in Chennault's China air force is a poodle, Major, born three months ago in a South American base. He now has 20 hours in P-40s (where he rides behind the pilot), knows how to breathe oxygen...
...with him on that long, nerve-racking, bug-bitten trek out of Burma into India)-and he can also tell you about the personal characteristics of most of the American flyers in China, from the youngest pilot to cribbage-playing Brigadier General Claire Chennault and his Flying Tiger mascot-dachshund...
...locker room of the Augusta (Ga.) National Golf Club, Bobby Jones's home sod. Bowman Milligan, the club steward, made him shoeshine boy. When the club put on battles royal, Little Beau always picked up the coins. Before long, the happy-go-lucky, flat-faced ragamuffin became the mascot of Jones and his friends...
...poultry kingdom. The pilots thought that scrawny, molting Eustace might as well be consigned to the pot; they traded three packages of tea for him. But on their way back to their station, Eustace's unhappy eye reproached their appetites. They decided to keep him as a mascot...
...believe TIME has erred. On Feb. 20, 1942, long before TIME mentioned "backward" birds, The Range Finder, Camp Callan publication, presented the "Oozlefinch," mascot of the Coast Artillery, which for years has flown backwards to keep the dust out of its eyes; and also because the bird is not interested in where it is going-it wants to know where in h- it came from...