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Closer to what? Certainly not to an Academy Award. In this routine piece of USNonsense-aptly epitomized in the ship's mascot: a turkey-Pat plays a two-striper, second in command on an LST in the peacetime Navy. When not scuttling his principles with a girl reporter (Barbara Eden), Hero Boone consoles a pointy-headed skipper (Dennis O'Keefe) who dearly loves to fish but sadly catches the only thing that seems to swim in the average gagman's Pacific: a brassiere. Whenever he has nothing worse to do, Pat sings a song. The music will...
...arrives in her dressing room an hour and a half before the performance. "I like time," says Leontyne, "to put out my trinkets on my dressing table-my pictures of my brother and his children and of my mother and father and of Mr. von Karajan and a little mascot dachshund to make me laugh...
...Ukrainian laborer, Malinovsky quit school at twelve to go to work as a shop messenger in Odessa. Too young (15) for enlistment in the Czar's army when World War I broke out, he stowed away with a unit leaving for the German front, was adopted as a mascot. Within a year, he was promoted to corporal, won the St. George's Cross, and was wounded...
...Lieutenant in the Fire Department, although a graduate of no college, marches at all football games and participates in all Band functions. Years ago Touchette's son was a mascot for the Band and one of the protectors of the big bass drum. Now Paul E. Touchette '60 is an undergraduate member of the Harvard University Band
...land space, one-fifth of the land area of the Western states. Last year they drew 68.5 million campers and tourists, but few tourists realized that the amiable, green-clad rangers probably also had responsibility for controlled lumbering, watershed protection, grazing, wildlife control, mining, fighting forest fires (firefighting mascot: Smokey the Bear), and possibly dealing with friendly Indians...