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Word: lsheppard (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1954-1954
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...your Nov. 15 "So Lovely & So Bruised": Miss Dorothy Kilgallen's "report" of the LSheppard] trial, as seen in your printed excerpt, is one of the most glaring examples of the ever-increasing, detestable "trials by newspaper" . . . Unconsciously, Miss Kilgallen designed her narrative to display one emotion for one person: quivering sympathy for Mrs. Sheppard . . . After a gruesome, adjective-laden description of the slides of the dead woman, consider the effect of the sob sister's subsequent sentence: "No wonder at all that Dr. Sam (meaning the defendant, I presume) cried. He could remember well, without looking...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 6, 1954 | 12/6/1954 | See Source »

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