Word: papagos
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...desert baby (first issue: 1,000 copies) is co-edited by two men born in Arizona ghost towns: Frederick Cromwell, 36; Harry Behn, 46, who wrote movie scenarios for Hell's Angels and The Big Parade. Both hope to draw more heavily on Yaqui and Papago folklore than on the literary curiosa that usually deadens quarterlies. Best bets...
...Germans at Arizona's desert-bordered Papago Park camp were full of wooden-faced horseplay. Prisoners nagged their guards, sometimes hid for days only to turn up well-fed and grinning. They were tough, picked men, almost all from Nazi U-boat crews. Beneath their erratic behavior guards could sense some hidden discipline, could only guess, month after month, at its purpose. Last week the patternless war of nerves seemed to be approaching a climax. Hundreds of prisoners formed ranks one afternoon to cheer the German advances on the western front. Then, as guards advanced, the shouting stopped...
...Secret. As the telephone began to ring at Papago Park, the camp's tall, grey-haired commander, Colonel William A. Holden, knew for the first time that 25 prisoners, all ardent Nazis, had escaped under his nose. Guards soon discovered camouflaged holes in the fence. Then, two days after the break, they discovered a tunnel which opened in an outdoor coal shed, led 200 feet to the bank of a deep irrigation canal...
Assembled in Tucson, Ariz, for their annual four-day powwow, 4,000 southwestern Indians held an especially big medicine council, puffed thoughtful pipes and from among 17 coal-eyed maidens picked as their presiding queen the All-American Girl-curvesome Susanne Ignacio, who not only teaches her Papago talk at the University of Arizona but can handle a horse as lithely as a Papago brave...
...Tucson of 1860 is painstakingly reproduced to the smallest adobe-brick hut; the streets are crawling with extras, packed with props. Before the end there appear at one time or another 600 head of Hereford cattle, 485 horses, 1,200 ("thousands of") extras, 150 rippling, bare-skinned Papago Indians...