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Spelunking, officers claimed, is the lost art of cave exploring. They also promised athletic credits to Freshmen who join the group...
...medieval Scandinavians. Evidence has been accumulating, he says, to prove that there are several species of giant squid or octopus which come to the surface only rarely. Ley thinks that Scylla, of the Odyssey, must have been a kraken, with her six toothy necks reaching out of a sea cave. So was Medusa, with her "snakes" (octopus arms) writhing around her face...
...onlooker at Kappler's trial (the first war crimes trial by an Italian court) had made the Ardeatine pilgrimage to mourn husband or son; the crowd stiffened with horror as Kappler dryly told how 30 SS men had rounded up the victims and taken them out to the cave. The officer who was to fire first got sick at the scene; Kappler explained to the court that he had had to fire the first shot to encourage the weakling...
...York Times why he was back: ". . . Is it still news that a Hollywood movie is usually born on the stone floor of a bank? And that this celluloid dragon, scorching to death every human fact in its path, must muscle its way back to its natal cave, its mouth full of dimes and nickels? . . . The Hollywood film exists only as the celebration of cold, canny (not so canny!) investment, with the resultant desire to make every movie as accessible as chewing gum, for which no more human maturity of audience is needed than a primitive pair of jaws...
Finally the Hal Roach studio cast her as a scantily clad cave woman in a picture called One Million B.C. She hit the jackpot. A pressagent nicknamed her the "Ping Girl," explained somewhat illogically, "she makes you purr." The money, the cars, the house, the. clothes, the adulation followed...