Word: manitou
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...hurricanes, in 1869 and 1913. Winked at by sailors on the snub-nosed freighters but still believed by old Chippewas, farmers and fishermen around the Straits of Mackinac is the Great Lakes' most eerie legend-the Indian Drum. Distinctly reverberant on nights of storm, the Drum of the Manitou has been heard to give one roll for every ship sunk on the Lakes, one beat for every life lost. Around one night on which the Drum counted wrong, Authors William Machharg & Edwin Balmer wrote a Great Lakes novel (The Indian Drum) whose authentic chill may well outlive the dangers...
...Maggio, Rupert Hughes. Comedian Joe E. Brown gave his guests a box lunch in the grand stand. Cinemagent Zeppo Marx, whose brothers spent the day working in a picture called A Day at the Races, bet $1,000 on Chanceview. Cinemactress Simone Simon bet $2 on Grand Manitou. Paulette Goddard wore the black hat which she considers lucky. There were 13,000 cars in the 85-acre parking...
Best shots: Chetoga's lonely vigil to appease the Manitou; the fall of a great pine, symbolizing Chetoga's death; un-faked closeups of deer, wolverines, 75,000 caribou; a bear and mountain lion fighting; the wolf pack trying to hamstring, then Baluk spearing, a bull moose...
...northeast shore of Lake Michi- gan they say (some Indians do) that there is a drum of the Manitou that sounds whenever the Lake takes a life. If so, the Manitou's drum sounded 52 times one night last week...
...small black fish, kept them all winter in a pool, cried "I told you so " when they grew silvery salmon scales in the spring. The mystery was solved for Scotland and the rest of the civilized world. Amerindians and Eskimos had, of course, known the secret since Manitou walked on earth and talked...