Word: receivee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: One wonders whether De Gaulle has read Don Quixote. I think he has. Its influence on him has obviously been great-almost as great as that of all those books about knighthood on poor Don Quixote. The re-enactment of the Inn scene is first class: Don Quixote de...
Hate List. But he could not come to terms either with his unruly genius or with life itself. "It is one of the mysteries of nature," he said in 1906, after his favorite daughter Susy died of meningitis at 24, "that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunderstroke like...
Did 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...
Kisses & Votes. Speaking for the Supreme Court, Justice Tom Clark gave no opinion as to Sheppard's guilt or innocence. Clark focused entirely on the "editorial artillery" that began accusing police and "hired lawyers" of covering up the doctor's alleged guilt immediately after the 1954 crime. The...
When police finally obliged, continued Clark, "the case came on for trial two weeks before the November election, at which time the chief prosecutor was a candidate for municipal judge and the presiding judge [the late Edward Blythin] was a candidate to succeed himself." Judge Blythin, who won in a...