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...mind received a jolt which sent tutors, students, and janitors into a frenzied hunt. For the "rabbit which is Leverett House" was carried off by force. The matter has been placed into the efficient hands of the Metropolitan Police, but little hope is felt for the return of this mascot and demi-god revered by every staunch heart in the House...
...members convened nationally for the 13th time. Across the river in Windsor, Canada, government liquor stores were kept open two hours later than usual in the evening. In Detroit, young women dressed in the manner of cinematic French peasantry served doughnuts in a model French village. Mascot gila monsters, rattlesnakes, burros, skunks were displayed all over town. One man had his eye knocked out playing with a trick camera. Three hundred and fifty bands and drum corps spurred on a four-mile parade which took nine hours to pass the reviewing stand. Some 40,000 people paid $3 each...
...town, overflowed into Canada across the river. Some had to sleep in parked Pullmans. All over the city were Wartime Salvation Army and Knights of Columbus huts. The society of the 40 & 8, inner sanctum of the Legion, had brought its French freight car, symbol of the organization. Mascot goats, Gila monsters, rattlesnakes, dogs, skunks, burros were displayed everywhere...
Whenever the Los Angeles or the blimps J3, J-4 and ZMC-2 are launched or landed at Lakehurst, N. J., a ground crew of U. S. sailors catches the ship's dangling ropes, holds on hard. Lately the crew's mascot, a nine month old bull pup named Tige, learned to help. He would seize a rope end in his strong young teeth and pull amain...
Died. Igloo, 6, fox terrier, pet and mascot of Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd on polar expeditions; of indigestion; in Boston, Mass., after three veterinaries had sought to save his life. Admiral Byrd, lecturing in Springfield, Ill., canceled an engagement, rushed to Chicago to charter an airplane. But Death had come to Igloo. In Memphis, Tenn., continuing his tour, Admiral Byrd declined the offer of another dog. Said he: "Igloo cannot be replaced...