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...Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, nettled at the Navy's dillydallying decision to delay until 1945 his trial for the Pearl Harbor disaster,* wrote a letter to Michigan's Senator Homer Ferguson, declared the "whole story of Pearl Harbor" has not been told, requested a "trial by court-martial at the earliest practicable date...
Lieut. Beaufort G. Swancutt, crippled by a policeman's bullet but recovering, told a reporter: "I am not afraid to die." Then he was rolled back to confinement. It was the first such sentence voted by a court-martial on an officer in World War II. The wheels of review that will finally take his case to the President began to grind...
...evidence was that he was not drunk. The defense's contention was that he was insane. Army psychiatrists, making a belated test of the young officer, ruled that he was not; the court-martial accepted their findings. After that Swancutt, father of two children, had no chance, beyond the possibility that somewhere in the process of review his sentence might be commuted...
...Civil Aeronautics Board blamed an Army bomber pilot for crashing into an American Airlines plane near Palm Springs, Calif. in October 1942, killing twelve. A court-martial acquitted the pilot...
...serious plays had good notices to overcome. The season produced one provocative play, Lillian Hellman's The Searching Wind, one lively stage pamphlet, Edward Chodorov's Decision. War plays, to make any dent at all, had to abandon straight drama, become exultant paeans to martial youth like Winged Victory, comedies of adventure like Jacobowsky and the Colonel. But the season's only two revivals of the classics came through handsomely: Othello set an alltime Broadway record for Shakespeare, The Cherry Orchard had its longest Broadway...