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...Tebbetts first decided to break into baseball, he had to do some considerable plotting to get his first job. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." So, at II, Birdie Tebbetts got to be mascot and bat boy for New Hampshire's semi-pro Nashua Millionaires, went on from there to become big-league baseball's "Most Voluble Player" and one of its best managers. For a report on how Birdie used at least part of his bat-boy formula to push into...
Stan DePinto, the mascot who grew into a full-time twirler, came out of his voluntary semi-retirement Saturday afternoon to lead the Harvard Band in its pre-game and half-time drills...
During the next years the Band used him mainly as a mascot, along with its regular twirlers, but after the war, Bill Reinhart, then drum major for the Band, accosted DePinto as he was walking across the Square one day, and "pressured" him into accepting the position of full-time twirler. From 1946 until 1954, when he went into his retirement, DePinto twirled at every home game and most of the away games...
Eide also wrote an article for the Krokodil which will be published shortly. It is a humorous conversation between the Lampoon's symbol, the Ibis, and the Russian magazine's mascot, a crocodile. Eide said that the article contains a humorous jab at Russia's poor modern architecture. In the article, Ibis says, "I liked St. Basil's best of all the buildings...
...always complex monsters like their ancestral V2. They are steadily growing smaller, simpler and cheaper. This week Republic Aviation Corp. told about a non-military rocket that it is manufacturing for a Defense Department project administered by the University of Maryland. Called the Terrapin (after the university's mascot), it is a two-stage, solid-propellant rocket that climbs 80 miles...