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...that he was right, portents that he was wrong. The Sick Man of Southern California has a long case history of an intermittent fever, in which booms and busts succeed each other with violent frequency. The great successes of the teens and '20s brought on the "fall-of-Babylon" parties that led to the Morals Crisis of the mid-'20s. In the late '20s the introduction of sound set Hollywood on its ears, but it was followed by an era so fantastically prosperous that one frosty night Myrna Loy, it is said, left her mink coat wrapped...
...realms, each corresponding to a person of the Trinity. The Third Realm, said Joachim, was about to begin with the appearance of Dux e Babylone. (In terms of modern Gnosticism, the leader from Babylon would be called Superman or Der Führer, or "the dictatorship of the proletariat in the form of the democratic centralism of the Party.") The Third Realm was to be characterized by wisdom, and after the Third Realm's beginning (set by Joachim for the year 1260), men would soon be so perfect that they would not need any Dux or government or discipline...
Henry L. Howell '55 of Babylon, N.J. and Eliot House has been chosen Assistant Swimming Manager for the 1953-54 season, the H.A.A. announced yesterday. As Assistant Manager, Howell automatically assumes the varsity managerial post the following year...
...leafy jungle and put his name to a new contract with Columbia. The schedule: three serials, 17 features (Prisoners of the Casbah, Charge of the Lancers, Jesse James Meets Bill Dalton), and probably at least one more like the Biblical epic Slaves of Babylon, soon to be released. Says Jungle Sam: "We got underwater stuff and we got overwater stuff and we got those three characters in the fiery furnace and on top of that we got Linda Christian doing her first screen dance." He frankly admits that many of his pictures are obvious remakes of past smashes...
Savonarola jumped into the life of Florence with the zest of a Puritan unloosed in Babylon. A man of deep and solitary faith, he believed he was God's instrument for purifying both church and city, and said so. His fervor turned out the Medici dictatorship, temporarily turned Florence into a theocracy. He fed the starving, reduced taxes for the poor, and protected the city from French invaders. He also burned books, ruthlessly condemned heresy, recruited armies of children to spy on their elders...