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...July 4 at 5:50 a.m.-the exact time may be important-Mayor J. Spencer Houk of Bay Village, a suburb of Cleveland, was awakened by a phone call from his friend, Dr. Samuel Sheppard: "For God's sake, Spence, get over here quick. I think they've killed Marilyn." In seven minutes Houk reached Sheppard's house. The young doctor was shaken and bloody. His wife, Marilyn, 31, four months pregnant, was dead. Last week Dr. Sheppard was indicted for the murder. "I am not guilty," he insisted. "How could I commit such a terrible...
...Marilyn had a good life. They bought a tree-shaded house on Lake Erie for $31,500 and paid off the mortgage in 2½ years. He had a jeep, a Jaguar and a Lincoln Continental, shared an aluminum boat with Mayor Houk. Marilyn taught basketball to schoolgirls and taught Sunday school at the Methodist church. The busy, popular couple liked bowling, golf, fishing, water skiing and sports-car races. They had one son, Little Sam, or Chip, now nearing seven...
...match of the day will pit the Crimson's number one player, Johnny Rauh, against sophomore Doc Houk. The former Andover and Bruin freshman star was the outstanding player at Brown last year and has improved on the circuit over the summer. But Rauh, no slouch himself, is rated...
...best shortstop in baseball [Phil Rizzuto, Most Valuable Player in the American League in 1950] ... I got the best catcher [Yogi Berra, 1951 M.V.P.], and I got two others to back him up [Ralph Houk and Charlie Silvera]. If he [Berra] wasn't such a good hitter, I'd play the others more. They can catch as good...
...Minneapolis audience welcomed the piece wholeheartedly, from the poignantly elegiac first movement to the brilliant and stirring folk dance at the end. Wrote Tribune Critic Norman Houk: "The Bartok concerto was a major success ... It was given an alert, keyed-up performance by a soloist, orchestra and conductor who had been working on the complex score for a strenuous week . . . A permanent and important addition to the viola repertory...