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Married. Lucy Cotton Thomas Ament Hann, relict of New York Morning Telegraph Publisher Edward Russell Thomas; and William Magraw, president of Manhattan's Underground Installations Co.; in Manhattan. Later kidnappers demanded $150,000 not to kidnap the bride's daughter Lucetta Cotton Thomas, 7, $2,000,000 heiress...
Near the end of the long underground corridor, the sight of a gray naval gun can be discerned in the dim, half-light. Here in one corner is a deep sea bomb. A man is painting a periscope from a submarine in another part of the room. The Naval Science Department has asked for the use of Memorial Hall as its base, but they have been granted only a section in one of the remote parts of the basement. Once again the martial beat is in the heart...
...still summer, with eight hours of daylight. Said Nap Verville last week: "There's grass there and flowers that look like little daisies, some yellow and some white. There are willows there, too. I don't suppose that is their real name, but I call them underground willows. They only grow about an inch high and then turn back under ground and run along for several feet and come up again...
...ground, the other on the sky. In August when the corn and melon vines begin to wither, the Hopi whisper that "the little ones" are angry. Then one day the medicine men set a date for the rain-bringing ritual. On the door of the main kiva (underground chamber) a priest posts a nacti (two eagle feathers tied to a stick) and for nine days thereafter the kiva is a hallowed place which none may enter but themselves. Across the broad mesa go "gatherers" in search of snakes. Scores of serpents are caught, imprisoned in the kiva. The priests...
Legend says that once a youth of the Snake Clan, one Tiyo, forbidden to marry a clanswoman he loved, went away to the Grand Canyon of the Colorado and plunged into the rushing water. He was swept into the underground realm of the immortal Snake people. He fell in love with one of their women, but when he embraced her, she and all the underground Snake people turned into real snakes. This did not dismay valiant Tiyo; so the snakes became people again and Tiyo took his bride back to his tribe on the mesa. But all of their offspring...