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...most important elements in the prosecution's case throughout the trial were damning shreds of evidence. Among them: green fibers and dog hairs found on the bodies. Those materials were said to be similar to the carpet in Williams' bedroom and the hair of his German shepherd Sheba. Last week the defense tried to show that the carpet in question was purchased in 1968, three years before the type of fiber found on the bodies was available in commercial carpets. Yet the prosecution presented a loan document indicating that the carpet was bought...
Jean Stapleton met Eleanor Roosevelt only once, in 1953, when the former First Lady paid a backstage visit to the Chicago cast of Come Back, Little Sheba. "Everyone was so awed that she had to make all the small talk," recalls TV's Edith Bunker. "And that smile. I could never forget it." Evidently, she not only remembered it but was able to reproduce it for a two-hour CBS special on Eleanor's first years as a U.N. delegate (1945-46). In fact, Londoners were stunned when they saw the actress's commanding figure step...
DIED. Katherine ("Ketti") Frings, 61, versatile novelist, screenwriter and playwright whose film credits include Come Back, Little Sheba (1952) and The Shrike (1955), and who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1958 for her stage adaptation of Thomas Wolfe's Look Homeward, Angel; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...since the Queen of Sheba...
...greatest of ironies, one of Moscow's associates in the Ethiopian adventure is Israel, whose friendship with Addis Ababa dates from the 1950s (if not, as some Israelis note, from the days of King Solomon's celebrated dalliance with the Queen of Sheba). The friendship is maintained today because predominantly Christian Ethiopia remains the only non-Arab power in the area, and the Israelis are hoping to retain a foothold there...