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...chief correspondence investigator, the Hoover group wisely chose tall and talented Mona Sheppard, who has been trying for years to simplify and improve the style of Government letters, and to reduce the almost endless files (24 million cu. ft. of them in 2,000,000 file cabinets -enough to stretch in a single drawer from the Pentagon to the Kremlin). Among the task-force recommendations is a new correspondence style board with authority over letter-perfection in every nook and cranny of the Government. Likeliest candidate for chairman: Mona Sheppard...
Jingles & Backlogs. As a girl, Mona Sheppard came out of the University of Alabama with big plans for becoming a poetess, but when she found she was most successful at selling jingles to a greeting-card company, she got a job with the Treasury as a correspondence clerk and devoted herself to belles-lettres, government style. In time she became the top expert on managing the enormous correspondence programs of Government agencies. Four years ago she went to work for the National Archives, as a troubleshooter who ranged all over the Government improving the flow of words and mail...
...interest in justice is spotty. It concentrates on the detection of criminals, on new statutes, and on the public-welfare services encompassed by the phrase "social justice." The courts are so neglected by the educators, the press and the public that reporters covering a rare sensation, such as the Sheppard trial, find that they have to pause for parenthetical explanation of the simplest procedures and the oldest rules of evidence. But no government will ever be much better than its courts. No system of welfare services, no multiplication of statutes or policemen can ever substitute for the ancient function...
With the clangorous repetition of a pile driver, tragedy has repeatedly battered the family of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Three times in six months the convicted wife killer had followed his relatives to their graves: first his wife Marilyn; then his grandfather-in-law; then his mother, a suicide (TIME. Jan. 17). Last week Dr. Sam, handcuffed to a deputy sheriff, looked on grimly as the body of a fourth relative was lowered into the ground. His father. Dr. Richard A. Sheppard, 64, had died of cancer, virus pneumonia, and a weariness of life...
Last month her husband, Dr. Richard Sheppard, ailing with pleurisy, went to the hospital. Just before Christmas, Sam was convicted of murder. One day last week Ethel Niles Sheppard, white-haired and handsome at 64, locked herself in her bedroom and fired a bullet from a .38 caliber revolver into her brain. She left a note to her son Stephen, with whom she was staying: "I can't manage without Dad. Thanks for everything.−Mother." By court order Sam Sheppard was granted the privilege−unusual for a convict−of attending his mother's funeral...