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...three hours. Bill cruised every foot of Iraq with a Kurdish interpreter and 16 Arabs-got interested in Biblical lore, measured the marks left by Noah's flood, reconstructed the story of the ark. Says Noah was a pitch dealer-built the ark to carry pitch to Babylon just as the Arabs do today...
This was the Florida of the headlines, of the columns, of salesgirls' dreams. It was the Florida which Columnist Lucius Beebe last week called "the last Gomorrah, the ultimate Babylon, the final Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter-Whirlwind, superdeluxe, extra-special, colossal, double-feature and Zombie-ridden madhouse of the world." And it was as far from the rest of Florida as Mr. Beebe was from the many-millioned humanity of his own Manhattan...
...existed." Professor Shalom Spiegel of Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion reported the discovery of a seal inscribed to Ge-daliah, the puppet Hebrew regent whom Nebuchadnezzar set up after he conquered Jerusalem in 589 B.C. to rule over the few Judeans he did not take back to Babylon...
...America prosperous and busy" by the happy spirits of Marx and Lenin working through the agency of certain enlightened economists. For who can doubt your conclusion that "an American prosperous and busy is an America invincible and free?" By the same reasoning, any prosperous and busy tyranny from ancient Babylon to present day Russia may be termed "invincible and free." Modern Holland was prosperous and busy. She was not invincible, and her prosperity and freedom are lost. Since lent of invincibility and freedom? Edwin L. Popper...
Last week University of Minnesota capped them all with a new Union that rivaled the Hanging Gardens of Babylon...