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...Sheppard trial suddenly became terrible when they brought Marilyn Sheppard into the courtroom ... It was all done with seven slides in glorious Technicolor and a cocky unsentimental little medical examiner with a Phi Beta Kappa key spinning from his vest chain and a red bow tie, notably unsuitable for corpse-pointing, askew under his chin. It will take many sessions of court and a multitude of distractions to erase the first brilliantly colored picture flashed on the big white screen in the darkened courtroom at that dreadful matinee. No wonder Dr. Sam cried and would not look. She was beautiful...
...life, spiritual as well as material, for his province. Rembrandt overshadowed last week's exhibition, and also dominated its pendant show of Dutch prints and drawings. Rembrandt's etching Faust (above) asserts a force of imagination foreign to his environment. With such pictures, Rembrandt outstripped even the glorious age into which he had been born. In advancing his art beyond fashionable portraiture, Rembrandt chose poverty, increasing neglect, and immortality...
...stubborn demands, clouded suspicions, dubious cheers. More curiously still, the man who won most in the five days was the man who indifferently let EDC go to its death, and who did not hesitate to threaten the whole painfully contrived structure with last-minute disaster. Others had talked of "glorious visions" and wailed over the intransigence of the French Assembly. Pierre Mendès-France used that intransigence as a tool, and talked not of sentiments but of realities...
...Moscow on the same day, the three leading Soviet newspapers burst out with long stories memorializing Belgrade's liberation, "the glorious Yugoslav army" and its "serious contribution" to the common victory over the Nazis...
...team-a cluster of smoothly dressed young men with religious backgrounds and comely wives. In both matter and manner, Billy Graham has come a long way from the Los Angeles days when he billed himself as "America's Sensational Young Evangelist" in a "Mammoth Tent Crusade" with "Glorious Music, Dazzling Array of Gospel Talent, 22 Tremendous Nights." Today's ads consist mainly of the words "Hear Billy Graham," plus a picture. Says Jerry Beavan ("pronounced like heaven"), Graham's 31-year-old public-relations man: "When you see an advertisement for a Cadillac, it just says Cadillac...