Word: sheppard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TWIGGY: WHY? (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). Marshall McLuhan, Eugenia Sheppard, British Fashion Photographer David Bailey and others comment on the Twiggy phenomenon in Britain and the U.S. Film clips of her recent capers on both sides of the Atlantic...
...reported her every move; the trade papers began running endless features on "The Gray Flannel Gal" and "The Wondrous World of W.R.G." Soon Sunday supplements, weeklies, even the prestige business magazines were weighing in with more talk about "the most talked-about agency." Last August Syndicated Fashion Columnist Eugenia Sheppard went so far as to coo that Mary Wells's "soft, thrilling voice makes the maddest ideas seem perfectly possible"-extravagant praise, since at the time W.R.G. had just begun to produce its first...
...these experiments good enough for a jury to make a decision which can strike this defendant from the face of the earth?" thundered Bailey. The jury's answer was a blow to the criminal counselor, who gained fame only last year by winning acquittals for Dr. Sam Sheppard and Coppolino and liked to brag about having an impressive string of 19 victories in homicide cases. So far this year, with the conviction of the Boston Strangler, he has a string of two well advertised losses. Though Bailey vowed to appeal the verdict, a stunned Coppolino was led from...
Judge Paschen is taking great pains to avoid repetition of the outcome of the 1954 trial of Cleveland's Dr. Sam Sheppard, who was found guilty of killing his wife, only to have the verdict upset by the U.S. Supreme Court because of prejudicial press coverage. Yet it is not the judge, but the defense and prosecuting attorneys who are taking all the time. Each is questioning prospective jurors carefully, and is being cut off by Paschen only if he becomes unusually long-winded...
...papers devoted only 3% of their space to crime news. Americans believe that publicity is vital to justice; the press has often dug up evidence that exonerated as well as implicated defendants. Inflammatory reporting is on the wane. Even if it recurs, the Supreme Court's Sheppard decision ordered trial judges to combat it with long available devices. They should hold pretrial hearings in private, grant continuances and changes of venue, select jurors from distant localities, sequester jurors to make sure that they do not read papers and magazines, listen to radio or watch TV-and readily grant mistrials...