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Until last July 4, life was good to Ethel Niles Sheppard. A schoolteacher from Paris, Ill., she married an osteopath in 1915, worked hard to help him start a hospital near Cleveland, even washed the hospital linen herself. Her three sons also became osteopaths, and her family flourished until the wife of her youngest son Sam was murdered last July 4. In August Sam Sheppard was arrested at his mother's home after dinner (she had served his favorite dessert, cherry pie), and she never saw him again...
...early decades of the century, a Colombian suitor, somberly dressed in black, wooed and won his señorita in classical style, even though it sometimes took years of hot-eyed glances through barred colonial windows, and reams of brief, impassioned verses, inscribed on linen paper of powder blue and slipped under a door. ("Love! Bitter love! Pursue me no more!") But the chaperons, the sedate hot-chocolate parties and all the genteel elegance of yesteryear are being put to rout. "Ay, chica," cries 1955's blue-jeaned swain as Night and Day booms out of the record-player...
...James A. Linen...
...objects casually against solid black or bright backgrounds and made them glow by means of many superimposed glazes. His art celebrates small but enduring things: the coolness of sliced cucumber, the blue dusk shade of cornflowers, the pungency of spilled paprika, the gleam of a lily or a linen handkerchief. On opening day more than half the pictures were sold...
...James A. Linen...