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...Quonset-hut courtroom in Seoul last week, an eight-man court-martial meted out punishment: two years in prison and dismissal from the service for 2nd Lieut. James D. Goff. Goff smiled in relief: he had had good reason to expect a much heavier sentence. Last December, with three Negro enlisted men, he had entered a Korean's house, presumably looking for stolen property, and had pistol-whipped to death an innocent Korean Presbyterian minister who protested...
...Army did little about the case until church groups in the U.S. kicked up a ruckus (TIME, Feb. 2). Goff was first charged with "unpremeditated murder," but because the court-martial could not decide which man had struck the fatal blow, Goff was convicted on the charge of "aggravated assault." Even with the lighter charge, he could have drawn a prison term of five years, but the court was lenient. Why did Goff get off so lightly? "That information," said a legal officer, "is in the bosom of the court...
...after the fire, a Protestant oilman named J. William Everhart went to see the town's Roman Catholic priest, the Rev. John Goff. Everhart told Father Goff that he wanted to help rebuild the Catholic hospital...
...developed at Christmas time . . . The Christmas party in offices and homes has in some places developed into a shocking situation ... Is not this year, with its tragic happenings, the time to ... substitute another kind of party more in keeping with the birth of the Savior?" Methodist Pastor Charles Ray Goff, a fellow Chicagoan, condemned what he called "heavy-drinking office parties. Office staff members," he said, "are caught with their guards down; they do not want to take part in the drinking, but are dragged in ... Last Christmas I saw four girls come out of an office building...
Attenshun! In Chicago, Dr. Charles W. Goff, member of the Posture Committee of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, had a cheering word for stoop-shouldered men: a slight slouch and protruding rump, he said, is healthy, conserves energy, and keeps the sloucher alert...