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...Ramona y Poncho: Maggie and Jiggs
Soviet scouts in the outskirts of Stalingrad bagged the season's first typical winter German. His head was wrapped in a woman's shawl looted from some Russian peasant hut. A threadbare blanket with a hole cut in the middle served him as a poncho. The Red Army men, dressed in the standard winter sheepskin shubas (coats), fleece-lined caps and warm valenki (knee-high felt boots), seized the shivering Fritz as he stood sentry duty over a zigzag trench full of freezing Germans. All he could mumble was "holodno" (cold...
...Army team will use two mules, the larger "Mr. Jackson" and the lesser "Poncho." The lesser is a gift to the Corps from the Ecuadorean Ambassador and will be ridden by the son of the Ambassador a Cadet named Alfaro...
Perhaps most of the local interest in the Military Men is centered in the mule situation. As last year, not one, but two, beasts will accompany the Corps, one being "Mr. Jackson," the real government issue mule, and the other being "Poncho," the little mule from Ecuador. Last year with the Pointers "Poncho" batted .300 falls in eight games...
...Cadet who gave his names as Stanley C. Scott, from Fort Belvoir, Virginia, will ride "Mr. Jackson," for the two understand each other. As the Honorable Colon (Colonel?) Alfaro, Ecuatdorean Ambassador, presented "Poncho" to the Corps, it is not too surprising to learn that it has been arranged that little Cadet Elroy Alfaro, son of sire Colon, will ride "Poncho...