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Three and a half months after Captain William D. Brown had run the battleship Missouri aground at 15 knots in the familiar waters of Chesapeake Bay, a Navy court-martial meted out his punishment. Captain Brown, 47, was dropped back 250 numbers in his grade, thus putting him that many rungs lower on the promotion list. Captain Brown's sentence had been reduced from 300 numbers by the reviewing admiral and the case would get further review. But practically, as far as any further advancement went, Captain Brown had himself run hard aground...
...conclude, was that a baby was born to Nancy that night, all right, but born dead, and that Richard disposed of it to save the family honor. In court, sullen Mrs. Randolph screened the deed with lies, waited till she got the erring lovers back home before she declared martial law in the family and assigned little sister Nancy to the most ignoble servant tasks...
...court-martial in Salzburg last week convicted an American corporal and a sergeant of kidnaping. Corporal Paul Abel got 20 years and Sergeant John Frankey got 15 years after they confessed that they had taken $653 from the Russians to abduct a gardener named Oswald Eder, a double spy who served both the Russians and the Allies (TIME...
...insistently than gaunt, intense Captain John G. Crommelin, U.S.N. It was Airman Crommelin who set off the acrimonious Navy hearings last fall, encouraged an utterly unfounded charge of Air Force corruption in B-36 procurement, surreptitiously handed confidential Navy correspondence to the press, and obstreperously demanded a public court martial. Severely reprimanded and exiled to San Francisco last fall, Crommelin refused to be silent. Two or three times a week, from Reno to Los Angeles, before Rotary clubs and businessmen's luncheons, he defiantly reiterated his charges that the Navy was being "nibbled to death" by "Prussian Pentagon policies...
Crommelin had the Navy in a spot. A disciplinary court martial would provide him with the rostrum and the martyrdom he seemed to want. But many once-sympathetic Navymen, embarrassed by his taunting evasion of discipline, heartily wished he would shut...