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...frankly delighted by their attentions. "I'm shy and introverted with them, and wondering if I'm doing the right thing," she says. "I wouldn't presume to try to be anything but myself with them." The Clan, in turn, treats her as a sort of mascot. Says Clansman Peter Lawford: "She's a guy, a funny girl, a natural clown." Says Dean Martin: "She's also a great audience. She loves to laugh. I'd be the biggest hit in the world if I only had 500 like her in every audience." Adds...
...Delayed seven weeks by rough weather and modifications to his sleek jet hydroplane Bluebird, Speedmerchant Donald Campbell tucked a cuddly teddybear mascot into the cockpit with him, roared up and down Lancashire's glassy Lake Coniston at an average speed of 248.62 m.p.h. to smash his own world record (239.07 m.p.h.), promptly declared his ultimate goals were 300 m.p.h. on water, 400 m.p.h. on land (v. the land record of 394.2 m.p.h. set at Bonneville, Utah, in 1947 by the late John Cobb). ¶ "Coaching football is a rotten life," said Michigan's mild-mannered Bennie Oosterbaan...
...Brown Key is an organization of 20 men who provide for visiting teams, and care for the Brown mascot, Butch Bruno MCLL. From those who apply for membership, the Key selects forty on the basis of interviews--and other criteria--, and from this number the Sophomore class elects 20. Last year five independents were elected, this year there were none. There were none among the 40 finalists, either...
...flower-laden raft from its moorings (it was recovered on time), tugged at nervous Don Knotts, who managed to keep his footing at the pool's edge, almost lifted Announcer Gene Rayburn off the diving board on the wings of a placard picturing Co-Sponsor Greyhound's mascot. But the show hung together and the pictures moved surely and crisply to the mainland, so that millions of viewers as far north as Toronto could join Steve Allen in Havana "on a romantic and starry night...
Lips Like a Bird. Birdie started his scrambling when he was only eleven and determined to get the job of mascot on the Nashua (N.H.) Millionaires, a semi-pro baseball team that had just been organized in the New England mill town where he grew up. "I scared off three or four kids, and I was a better player than the others I couldn't scare off." In those days, Birdie's hero was a former big-league catcher named Bill Haeffner. Bill lent the youngster a mitt, and Birdie's career began. Soon he could catch...