Word: osteopaths
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pretty, pregnant Marilyn Sheppard, 31, was murdered in her bedroom in Bay Village near Cleveland about 3:30 a.m. on July 4, 1954. The prosecution contended at the first trial that Osteopath Sheppard killed Marilyn with 27 blows to the head because he loved another woman. Sheppard blamed the murder on a "bushy-haired intruder," who clubbed him from behind and knocked him out. He professed love for his wife, despite her frigidity and his infidelity. "I couldn't possibly have done such a thing," he insisted. The jury rejected his story as "fantastic," and he received a life...
Rink, who got married two years ago and whose wife expects a baby in September, looked forward jubilantly to getting an artificial leg and a steady job. Osteopath Houghton was more guarded: "We cannot say he is cured-we have to wait five or ten years before we can speak of a cure. But if the disease had progressed normally, this patient would have been dead by now." The Roswell Park doctors, determined not to kindle premature hopes in other cancer victims, said nothing...
...Cleveland newspapers so inflame Dr. Sam Sheppard's jurors that he was wrongly convicted of bludgeoning his wife to death? No one has ever proved that the press actually swayed the jurors who found the osteopath guilty in 1954 and sent him to prison for life. But last week, upholding Sheppard's bid for habeas corpus, the Supreme Court said that "inherently prejudicial publicity" was proof enough that he "did not receive a fair trial consistent with the due process clause of the 14th Amendment." In an 8-to-1 decision that forced Ohio to promptly retry...
Died. Viscount Astor, 58, son of Virginia-born Lady Astor, Britain's first woman to sit in Parliament and hostess of the sparkling intellectual "Cliveden Set" at the family estate in the '30s, himself a onetime M.P., who rented a cottage to Osteopath Stephen Ward in 1956 and thereby spawned a demimonde that featured Call Girl Christine Keeler until it collapsed amid the Profumo scandal of 1963; of an apparent heart attack; in Nassau, the Bahamas...
Married. Christine Keeler, 23, redheaded call girl, whose 1963 stories of life among London's toffs led to the resignation of her occasional lover, Tory War Minister John Profumo, and the suicide of her protector, Osteopath Stephen Ward; and Engineer James Leathermore, 24; in Reading, England...