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Agabus-Graves's account of Jesus' identity is not half so strange as his interpretation of Jesus' role. His royalty, as scion of both the House of David and the Herodian line, carried with it the mythical attributes of a "sacred king"-of Tammuz, the Babylonian Adonis...
We "most men" are aware We don't rate with Adonis But we don't like the bare Fact shoved rudely upon us.
Commandomen searched Gibraltar, came in with disheartening news. Five more of the Rock's historic apes were dead! From 17, the Rock's monkey colony had recently shrunk to eight. Two of the bodies just found were those of Adonis, also called Scruffy, and Antonio. They were rival...
Died. Henry Edward Dixey, 84, matinee idol of the 80's; of injuries in a traffic accident; in Atlantic City. The Great Profile of his day, romantic juvenile, tragedian, comic-opera star, specialty dancer, he played the title role in Adonis for a record 603 performances on Broadway.
Almost in the midst of his dive, the Adonis reversed direction and disappeared into the showers, female shrieks subsided, and the atmosphere went back to normal. No one knows the hero's name, and no one knows his class, because he never returned, even in a bathing suit.