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After Dean Sheppard 71, one of the demonstration's organizers, read Ford a statement demanding "the total dismemberment of Project Cambridge," the group left. The statement was written on the back of a leafter shortly before a noon rally attended by 300 in front of University Hall...
...stood to reason that a 195-lb. amateur wrestler would have little chance against a 280-lb. bruiser with twelve years in the pro wrestling game. But that was not how the script read when Dr. Sam Sheppard made his debut against Wild Bill Scholl in a charity match in Waverly, Ohio. Seven minutes into the match Dr. Sam coolly jammed two fingers into Wild Bill's mouth and expertly pressed the mandibular nerve, which lies in the tender area under the tongue. Scholl instantly went limp with agony. Fall and match to Sheppard. "Only new thing...
Wild Bill Scholl v. Dr. Sam Sheppard. That surprising billing on the pro wrestling program is expected to pack the high school stands for the exhibition bouts that will be held in Waverly, Ohio, on Aug. 9, to raise money for cancer research. After two murder trials, two malpractice lawsuits arising from patients' deaths and last winter's much publicized divorce petition from his second wife, Dr. Sam ranks as a celebrity of sorts. He also claims to have been a pretty fair grappler as a youth, and he reportedly was something of a champion at Ohio Penitentiary...
BEFORE they went to Switzerland to interview Novelist Vladimir Nabokov for this week's cover, Contributing Editor Ron Sheppard and Reporter Martha Duffy cabled a list of 21 questions, for which the novelist promised to supply written answers when they arrived. He got an early start on his work. The night clerk at his hotel awakened him at one o'clock in the morning with the peremptory announcement: "Le Telex marche encore...
...major contributions to the cover story were made by a team that included Sheppard, Duffy, Researchers Margaret Boeth and Rosamond Draper, and Books Editor Timothy Foote. Reporter Duffy has been a Nabokov admirer since she read Lolita while a student at Radcliffe. Since then she has read everything he has written that has been translated into English, and she is waiting impatiently for more of his poetry to appear. Sheppard, who was managing editor of Book Week before he came to TIME in 1967, is also an ardent Nabokov fan. "Ever since I first read one of his books," says...