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...excitement on the field matched that of the crowd. Only 9400 fans attended on a pleasant Sunday afternoon. Despite the efforts of a strolling Dixieland Jazz Band and the presence of the mule Charlie O, the team's mascot, the crowd was unmoved by the A's all-too-typical performance...
...agitating for change. At first he turned to gimmicks to pull in crowds and feed his starveling team: greased pig chases before the start of a game; a mechanical rabbit popping up behind the umpire, holding a supply of new balls; half-price tickets for bald men; a mule mascot named Charlie...
...film even offers a bonus - a few minutes of the Pink Panther, a creature that is a sort of mascot for the series, cavorting in animation along with the titles. The art work was done by the Richard Williams Studio and is a spectacular...
...celebration. That was a clue, of course all of those whimsical hot shots, together in one issue, meant something special was up. There were other clues: the cover was the annual portrait of Eustace Tilley, The New Yorker's elegant, top-hatted, curly-locked, nose-in-the-air, monacieclutching mascot. That told readers the magazine was celebrating some anniversary. And on page 134 there was the best clue of all, a four-line filler reeking of esoterica and tradition. It read...
...there, and all I saw was a bunch of smoke." The Park Service's Bruce Kilgore sighs: "We've got a major problem in explaining our position to the public." Which suggests it may be time to fire Smokey the Bear and hire some new symbolic mascot like Sparky the Firebug...