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...Hearst's Los Angeles Herald & Express, the headlines at first called him DR. SAMUEL SHEPPARD. Then the name was shortened to DR. SHEPPARD. By last week it was simply DR. SAM or just SAM. He needed no further identification. The same thing happened in other papers. For the last month the case of Dr. Samuel Sheppard, the Cleveland osteopath charged with murdering his pregnant wife TIME, Aug. 30), has been the biggest murder story in the U.S. press since the rial of Bruno Hauptmann in 1935. Said Herald & Express Managing Editor Herbert H. Krauch: "It's been...
Competing Managing Editor Ed Murray of the crime-loving Los Angeles Mirror disagreed: "The case has mystery, society, sex and glamour, but as a day-in-and-day-out story, it has been duller than dishwater." Many another newsman raised the question: Is the Sheppard case worth the space U.S. dailies are giving...
Hearst Reporter Dorothy (What's My Line?) Kilgallen is a practitioner of an old and dying school of U.S. newspaper reporting; she is the leading U.S. sob sister. Last week, covering the Cleveland trial of Dr. Sam Sheppard (TIME, Aug. 30), charged with the murder of his wife Marilyn, Sob Sister Kilgallen demonstrated why she deserves the title-and perhaps why such reporting is a-dying out. Wrote Reporter Kilgallen...
...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...
...strange. No picture ever printed of Marilyn Sheppard, of the many taken when she was smiling and wide-eyed and alive, has shown her to be as lovely as she was in death-discolored and slashed and broken. No wonder at all that Dr. Sam cried. He could remember well, without looking. Her face was oval, her skin the very fair kind with fine pores. Where there were no wounds, it had a peach-like tint, faintly damp with the dewiness of the newly dead...