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...entrusted with inventing their own churches. No exception is Lady Emily Lutyens, who was one of the muddled Marthas of the Theosophical Society, a cult that hoped to mix the occult traditions of Buddhism. Christianity, and the other great religions, and actually succeeded only in unloosing a great Ganges tidal bore of flumduddery and jiggerypook on the superstitious suburbs of the West. Author Lutyens' first book, A Blessed Girl (1954), evoked a pleasant nostalgia for a childhood spent as a member of an aristocratic family of great talent. This book is an equally engaging story evoking years spent...
Frank Sinatra, who once had to croon to make them swoon, arrived in Nice to work on his new movie, Kings Go Forth, was recognized at the airport with the ecstatic cry, "C'est Frankie!", engulfed, hand-passed over a tidal wave of hysterical women to a waiting Cadillac while Actress Linda Christian, there to meet him, was left behind. Tremoloed a shaken Frankie: "It was rough...
Grand Chenier and Johnsons Bayou ("Those towns are nothing but hills in the swamp," said Cameron Parish Sheriff O. B. Carter) rolled Audrey's vicious tidal wave, ripping and twisting hundreds of homes, crumpling four fuel storage tanks under the hurled weight of a huge offshore oil barge, flinging two 50-ft. fishing boats onto the main street of Cameron (pop. 3,000), the seat and only incorporated town of the parish...
...bayou folk swam, clung, gasped and prayed for their lives. Those lucky enough to reach specks of dry land found only more terror: with them were alligators and water moccasins, tossed out of the torrent, snapping and striking in their fury (Mrs. Stephen Broussard lost three children to the tidal wave-and a fourth died of snakebite). In Cameron, a fisherman stumbled sobbing through the streets. His father, his pregnant wife and two children were gone. He was swept into the Calcasieu River-and was rescued to continue his grieving. On the courthouse steps sat a towheaded lad in hand...
Quake-born tidal waves, raised by shock forces shot up from the ocean floor at close to the speed of sound, flooded Japanese fishing villages yesterday, several hours after the seismic surge wrecked two villages in Hawaii. Twenty-six beach homes were destroyed on Kauai Island by the waves, caused by two massive under the-ocean earthquakes near the Aleutians...