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...Jumbo onto the Tufts campus and into the Barnum Museum caused no little stir. The building's stone steps had to be removed and its floor lowered three times before Jumbo gained his final resting place in 1890. By that time the huge elephant had officially become the Tufts' mascot and the college was nicknamed the "Jumbos...
...Like its mascot, the reborn 101st Division has not yet realized in fact its symbolic potential. But the ingredients are there. When fully trained, equipped and tested, it may provide the Army with the answers it desperately seeks for survival and victory on the atomic battlefield...
...possession of a young Korean jockey until the boy's sister lost her leg in a land-mine accident; then he decided to sell the horse to the Marines for $250 in order to buy his sister an artificial leg. On the front lines, Reckless became both a mascot and an efficient carrier of ammunition for a recoilless ("Reckless") rifle platoon, 5th Marines. She learned to relish C-rations and Wheaties, and to drink beer out of a helmet or a glass. She also learned to string communications wire efficiently and to kneel down when enemy fire came close...
Hangar & Ramp. Last week the Air Force Academy was doing its best to rustle up some traditions of its own. The heraldic division of the U.S. Air Force was working on an emblem, and the academy's Athletic Association had temporarily adopted the eagle as a mascot. So far, no one had thought up a cheer, no one had composed a song. But some progress had been made with the lingo...
...JANE, by Rumer Godden (Viking; $2.50), boasts one of the smallest heroines in recent fiction: a four-inch china doll. Impunity, like Ibsen's Nora, rebels against the doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...