Word: sam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With the clangorous repetition of a pile driver, tragedy has repeatedly battered the family of Dr. Sam Sheppard. Three times in six months the convicted wife killer had followed his relatives to their graves: first his wife Marilyn; then his grandfather-in-law; then his mother, a suicide (TIME. Jan. 17). Last week Dr. Sam, handcuffed to a deputy sheriff, looked on grimly as the body of a fourth relative was lowered into the ground. His father. Dr. Richard A. Sheppard, 64, had died of cancer, virus pneumonia, and a weariness of life...
...Washington's staunchest bachelors, new House Speaker Sam Rayburn, 63, made a date with his youngest sister, Lucinda Rayburn, gallantly helped her into a fur wrap before they headed for the White House, where Texas-Democrat Rayburn was the President's dinner guest of honor...
...Queen. Wherever he goes he is accompanied by a glistening motorcade of Lincolns and Mercurys. In Houston, Sullivan agreed to preside at the opening of the new $9,000,000 Prudential Insurance building, but first arranged for a display of his sponsor's cars in the lobby. When Sam Goldwyn, Oscar Hammerstein II, Josh Logan or Walt Disney are guests on Toast of the Town, Sullivan sees to it that their wives get gift Lincolns. ("That gets a lot of caste-conscious people buying Lincolns...
Festival (by Sam and Bella Spewack) takes place in the rococo sunroom of a music impresario. Phones blare, tempers explode, rival artists snarl and spit. Then a lady music teacher arrives with a child prodigy to make things really hum. Soon she is rumored to be a famous pianist's discarded mistress and the prodigy their illegitimate son. With the child's real father suspecting his wife, and a lady cellist buzzing with sex. it all suggests a game of musical sofas...
...that shakily-constructed set often termed the National scene, one of Harvard's foremost sons was chosen for a comic role last spring. Sam Sears trucked down to Washington as an impartial counsel in the McCarthy hearings. Until the authorities questioned the casting and dropped his opinion, Cambridge was anticipating quite a performance. As it turned out, the Show went on and was high comedy; but for real farce, Sam was our choice in the part...