Word: adonijah
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...condition that afflicted the original at the beginning of I Kings: "Now King David was old and stricken in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he gat no heat." This time around, the dying leader has more to worry about than just the squabbling between his sons Adonijah and Solomon over who will succeed him. There is his reputation to consider: "I don't like to boast-I know I boast a bit when I say I don't have to boast-but I honestly think I've got the best story in the Bible...
Died. Tyrone Power, cinemactor, 44; of a heart attack suffered on the set of United Artists' Solomon and Sheba, following a strenuous duel scene in which Power (King Solomon) was supposed to kill Actor George Sanders (Adonijah); in Madrid. The son and great-grandson of actors of the same name, Tyrone Power first learned his craft on the stage. Signed to a Fox contract in 1936, he was the cinema's top moneymaking star two years later, stacking up a list of credits that eventually included Jesse James, The Rains Came, Blood and Sand, Captain from Castile...
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