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Cecil B. DeMille, Hollywood's colossal historian, had not lost his touch as he cast his upcoming masterwork, Samson and Delilah. For the girl he hired Hedy Lamarr; for the boy, Victor Mature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Quiet, Please | 6/21/1948 | See Source »

Billy Sunday had made the choreography easy: he used to act out most of the parables in his sermons himself. Ruth Page had lifted three of her four episodes from Billy's own love stories from the Bible (Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar), updated them to Billy's own times, the 19205. As a blowsy Mrs. Potiphar, Ballerina Danilova brought the house down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: The Devil's Due | 3/15/1948 | See Source »

Down in the village where the Freshmen live, rowing activity centers about "Ma" Gerholz's Croften training table, where three of the championships eight got their spinach. "What Delilah did to Samson, what Frankle did to Johnny, are nothing compared to what we can do to Harvard," says...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wellesley Crew Drops Handkerchief Before Crimson Faces as It Asserts 'Victory or Bust' | 5/22/1947 | See Source »

...have the faith to transfer the policing of the world from unilateral power politics to the United Nations under a system of world law, our political "leaders" are re-enacting the role of Samson in the temple of the Philistines by perpetuating the insane anarchy of war, muttering the shibboleth of "national sovereignty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Apr. 21, 1947 | 4/21/1947 | See Source »

Starting out in a serious vein with a selection from Handel's "Samson," Mozart's "Freemasons Chorus," and William Schuman's "Truth Shall Deliver," the two Clubs, singing together and then separately, wound up the program with a joint effort on "Bright College Years" and "Fair Harvard...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Glee Club's Concert Features Grid Songs | 11/23/1946 | See Source »

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