Word: solomon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soldier-Archaeologist Yigael Yadin, Israel's Chief of Operations in the Palestine war of 1948 and the general who chased the Egyptians out of the Negev by a strategic plan derived from the Old Testament, offered proof that the celebrated ruin at Megiddo was not built by King Solomon, as had been supposed. Instead it was built by the "wicked" King Ahab...
...grand tour of Europe as a privileged spectator of the beginning of World War II. Graduating cum laude from Harvard ('40), he caught the nation's eye with an enlarged version of his thoughtful college thesis, Why England Slept. Later, as a Navy lieutenant in the Solomon Islands, he became an authentic war hero, saved the lives of his crewmen after a Japanese destroyer knifed through their PT boat and sank...
...Solomon and Sheba (Edward Small; United Artists), shot in Spain by King (The Big Parade, War and Peace&) Vidor at a cost of $4,000,000, had to be completely remade after the leading man, Tyrone Power, died of a heart attack...
...Bible story (7 Kings 10:1-13) the personal relation between Solomon (Brynner) and Sheba (Gina Lollobrigida) is mercifully accomplished in a clause: "And king Solomon gave unto the queen of Sheba all her desire, what soever she asked . . ." In the film version this statement is generously translated into two hours of full-color, wide-screen lust, in which all of Solomon's love affairs are lumped into one. In the case of Solomon (700 wives, 300 concubines) this makes quite a lump, but Lollobrigida does her breasty best to fill the part...
Manhattan's new Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and modified by Director James Johnson Sweeney (TIME, Nov. 2), raised a storm of controversy-and a host of sightseers. In the ten weeks since it opened, Sweeney reported last week, almost 250,000 people-an average of nine a minute-have queued up and paid up (admission: 50^) to see what is inside...