Word: shepperd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...quoted Isaiah: "He that believeth, shall not make haste." North Carolina's Assistant Attorney General Beverly Lake referred to an old case. "This court," said he, "allowed the city of New York four years ... to decide what to do with its garbage." Texas' Attorney General John Ben Shepperd drew a laugh by citing a public-opinion poll, which showed that 45% of sampled Texans are dead set on keeping segregation, only 14% favor desegregation. The same polling agency, said Shepperd. predicted Truman's 1948 election. Queried Justice Felix Frankfurter: "That makes it scientific...
...dramatic show of the week was the Omnibus version of Sophocles' Antigone, superbly directed by Sidney Lumet and beautifully played by Beatrice Straight, Philip Bourneuf and Shepperd Strudwick. The holocaust in ancient Thebes had more suspense, tension and clash of strong personalities, as well as more biting language, than TV screens have witnessed all year...
Curtain Call (Fri. 8 p.m., NBC). The Season of Divorce, with John Forsythe, Leora Dana, Shepperd Strudwick...
Affairs of State combines a small cast and a single gag with intermittent sprinklings of comedy, farce, and epigrams. June Havoc carries off very well the lead role, created by Celeste Holm. She and Shepperd Strudwick alone manage to give variety to their parts without sacrificing consistency...
Three Husbands (United Artists] stencils itself hopefully on 1949's successful A Letter to Three Wives. Based on a story by Novelist Vera Caspary, who worked on the plot for Three Wives, the picture gives three men (Howard da Silva, Shepperd Strudwick, Robert Karnes) reason to suspect their wives (Eve Arden, Ruth Warrick, Vanessa Brown) of infidelity, then sits back to watch them squirm...