Word: sheppard
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Died. Walter Millis, 69, military journalist and historian; husband of Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard; ot cancer; in Manhattan. During 30 years on the now defunct New York Herald Tribune, Millis established a reputation as one of the country's most lucid military commentators. His books ranged from The Martial Spirit (1931), which examined the origins of the Spanish-American War, to This Is Pearl! (1947), a study of U.S. unpreparedness against the Japanese attack. Recently, though, his articles turned more to politics than the conduct of arms, criticizing U.S. involvement in Viet Nam and voicing opposition to nuclear weapons...
...audience at the Loeb last Friday and Saturday got its money's worth. The group is interesting to watch with something sympathetic and appealing about them; they are young, they move well, they perform with confidence and spirit. A few of them, Lisa Nelson and Whittaker Sheppard in particular, give off sparks of a very personalized energy. A few of them, especially wide-eyed Wendy Perron, possess radiant good looks that are nothing if not pleasant to behold. A few of them, like Martha Armstrong, are very funny. Attributes like these can make even a spoiled Loeb audience forget they...
Only in A Place Apart by Wendy Perron was a choreographer successful in sculpting beautiful, interrelated movements: this at moments was a kind of graphic art. At moments too. Whittaker Sheppard's sketch of death, Incident at Dusk, communicated a horror and panic that was intended. Despite her confusion of narcissism with self-discovery, Lisa Nelson alone moved away from the dramatic toward the kine-esthetic, and she worked her cumulative effect, instead of striving for profoundity with each gesture...
...Roadblocks. The News's dummy is standard size, with six columns instead of eight. It will publish five days a week and skip weekends so as not to compete with the Sunday News.* Likely contributors include Old Herald Tribune Hands Eugenia Sheppard, Dick Schaap and Judith Crist. The News hopes to avoid depleting its own staff and recruit almost entirely from the outside. So far, the Newspaper Guild has responded favorably. "We won't put roadblocks into the launching of the paper," says Guild Executive Vice President Tom Murphy, who is happy to have some new jobs...
Attorney F. Lee Bailey, who defended Dr. Sam Sheppard, the Boston Strangler and Carl Coppolino, among others, takes on a new profession-person-to-person style cross-examination of celebrities. First defendants: Tony Curtis and his wife, Christine Kaufmann. Premiere...