Word: martials
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Neville's performance noticeably hurt what is a kind of violin concerto of a play, with its alternations of the martial and the lyrical, of action and reaction, of brass-choired public spectacles and sad-fiddled private woes. The big scenes were for the most part handsomely played; in the rise and fall of Kings there were actors who could do rich justice to the king's English, and the Bard's, and Director Michael Benthall contrived much regal flow and movement...
...wrote Navy Secretary Charles Thomas last week in drastically reducing the rigorous court-martial sentence of Marine Staff Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon, who led six marine recruits to their death on a disciplinary march last spring (TIME, April 23 et seq.). Thomas cut the sentence from nine months' hard labor to three months (leaving McKeon to complete four more weeks), canceled a $270 fine and a bad-conduct discharge, confirmed the reduction in grade to private...
Marine Court-Martial...
...From military encampments on the Salisbury Plain, Britain moved more troops toward embarkation ports and the eastern Mediterranean. In Paris the Defense Ministry announced appointment of three-star General André Beaufre, an expert on airborne operations, to command a new "Mediterranean force." French newspapers, kicking up a new martial stir over the Suez, reported that air units were grouping at fields near Paris, armor and paratroop forces massing near Algerian ports...
North Carolina's Wilmington Morning Star (circ. 17,866) went to press with a front-page picture of four Marine witnesses in the court-martial of Sergeant Matthew C. McKeon (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). As soon as the paper hit his desk, the editor on duty gulped and stopped the presses. He had failed to notice, in the shadowy impression on the Associated Press mat that supplied the picture, that one of the marines, Private Eugene W. Ervin of Bridgeport, Conn., was a Negro. The deskman met the crisis by ordering a pressman to take hammer and chisel...