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...terms of image, Oakland never had a chance. Liza Minnelli, Cary Grant and Walter Matthau turned up for the series opener at Dodger Stadium; the Bay Area could counter only with Charlie O, the A's mascot mule. But perhaps the Dodgers misunderstood the A's. Although Oakland's internecine bloodletting is nothing new, and, in fact, usually accompanies their best play, the Dodgers seemed to think that the squab-bung would undermine the A's. "I hope they fight some more," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston...
Bonanza may no longer be filling prime time on TV, but the spirit of the Ponderosa gallops on. Big Ben Cartwright rode into Washington last week to lobby for some of the constituents of Ponderosa ranch: horses. Along with Papa Charcoal, the American Horse Protection Association's mascot, Actor Lome Greene gave a press conference opposite the White House, asking for legislation to curb the cruelties inflicted on horses in the U.S. Greene, who has his own ranch in California's San Fernando Valley, has joined the board of the A.H.P.A. Said one fan who had gathered round...
...Harvard Lampoon Friday recovered its bronze mascot, a three-foot-tall Ibis, after what a Lampoon spokesman called a police stakeout in Saugus. The bird was stolen almost a year ago from its rooftop perch on the Lampoon Castle...
Still, the fans at the Lobsters' home matches have been staid. The crowds have averaged a little over 2000 at the modern, carpeted B.U. hockey arena. The dixieland band plays only during warmups and between games, never between points. The Lobsters' mascot, a six-foot-tall bright orange cloth lobster with a tennis raquet in one claw, flaps his claws together decorously after good points, then folds them back...
...make them wish they hadn't given up that Indian mascot, because there's going to be some scalping done," he continued. "Their best chance is that it snows and we follow the wrong white line...