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...rest of the calls ring through to the machine. But by then the picture had taken on a life of its own. A relative of a still missing person in the photo called to say he'd heard that Mike had miraculously saved people by leading them into the subcellar of the towers. Where were they now? The fan letters began piling up. A woman wrote from Australia that her three-year-old son Laughlin said his prayers each night to the photo: "You are the face [that] my son has identified as his hero." A man from Pensacola...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Glory In The Glare | 12/31/2001 | See Source »

...granddaughter of Britain's Queen Victoria; in her cottage on her 250-acre Friedrichshof estate, near Kronberg, Germany. During the Allied air bombardment of Germany, Princess Margarethe secretly transferred the Hesse family jewels and memorabilia (estimated value: $3,000,000) from a Frankfort bank vault to a Friedrichshof subcellar and sealed the entrance. In 1945 the castle became an officers' club run by WAC Captain Kathleen Nash, who soon ferreted out the jewels, with two male officers smuggled her loot to the U.S. The following year, after Princess Margarethe discovered the theft, Army authorities tracked down the thieves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 1, 1954 | 2/1/1954 | See Source »

...groundhogs, both Crimson mascots and members of the National Linotypists Society, emerged from the subcellar of 14 Plympton Street yesterday. Both glimpsed their shadows on the new-fallen snow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Egad! No Crime! | 2/2/1950 | See Source »

...eight-room cottage near by. There was a person in charge at the Kronberg castle-a self-assured female captain named Nash. She would have to be asked about the royal heirlooms. Unfortunately they had been buried in a lead-lined box in a hole in the subcellar...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Something Borrowed ... | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

...April Princess Sophie went to Kronberg. But Captain Nash had returned to the U.S. and none of her successors knew anything about the priceless jewels. In the subcellar was nothing but a litter of wine bottles, and an empty hole. Princess Sophie then complained to the U.S. Army. Where were the jewels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ARMY & NAVY: Something Borrowed ... | 6/17/1946 | See Source »

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