Word: canaan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Imogene Stevens, 24, sloe-eyed Texan who last June jolted staid New Canaan, Conn, by bumping off Seaman Al Kovacs, 19, in an "aura of sex recrimination, beer and window-smashing reprisals" (so said Coroner Theodore E. Steiber), returned from a summer of Army camping with her husband, Major George R. Stevens III. Rumor said that she might seek a change of venue for her impending manslaughter trial because of public prejudice...
...Imogene Stevens, tiger-eyed Texas beauty, held in New Canaan, Conn, for the killing of a 19-year-old sailor at a neighbor's, house (TIME, July 9), had an emotional reunion at the county jail with her paratrooper husband, who flew in from Europe on a 30-day emergency leave to help her. Busy trying to get his wife's $50,000 bail reduced, Major George Ralsey Stevens III stoutly declared to reporters: "She did what any woman would have done...
Imogene Stevens was the kind of girl at whom men always looked twice. When Imogene landed in neat, suburban New Canaan, Conn. (pop. 6,500), New Canaanites looked at her in various ways...
Dark-haired, dark-eyed Imogene was the bride of young Major George Stevens III. She had come to New Canaan because that was where George's parents lived. George, an officer in an airborne division, had to go overseas. Imogene settled down in a brown-shingled little house next door to the Charles Miltons on decorous East Maple Street...
...that was past. In New Canaan, Imogene was more interested in the present. She was frequently photographed in scanty swimming suits. She turned her dark, innocent eyes on next-door neighbor Charlie Milton, susceptible treasurer of a bolt company, father of three. New Canaan tongues began to clack...