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Steppingstone Towers. The Sumerians introduced writing, and under their rule the arts flourished. Their temples-dedicated to such gods as to Innin, the goddess of fertility, or to Dumuzi, a kind of Sumerian Adonis-were huge edifices of mud brick made splendid by intricate mosaics of colored earth. The temples...
A Leverett House student was released on $1000 ball yesterday on charges of conspiring to send obscene matter through the mails. He was indicted Monday by a federal grand jury in Chicago along with other persons allegedly associated with the "Adonis Male Club."
At last I have "made" the cover of TIME. I am the Adonis to the left of the Indian directly behind the left shoulder of Cleveland's Colavito [see cut]. My wife recognized the likeness at a glance and was relieved to know I really did go to see...
In Philadelphia's arena last fortnight, Wrestler Antonino ("Dropkick") Rocca, weighing in at 228 lbs., squared off against John ("Adonis") Valentine, weighing 234 lbs. More than two miles away, at the Academy of Music, famed Soprano Renata ('Diva Serena") Tebaldi stepped to the front of the stage and...
⊇¶ For more than 20 years, Barney Baker, 47, has palled with and worked for nearly all the U.S. hoodlums of any consequence. Among them: Meyer Lansky, Joe Adonis and Trigger Mike Copola in Miami; Bugsy Siegel in Las Vegas; John Vitale in St. Louis. Said Counsel Kennedy: "Everywhere...