Word: seamans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...quiet, almost deserted Bridgeport (Conn.) courtroom last week, State's Attorney Lorin W. Willis asked that the case be dismissed. He droned that he had "... a reasonable doubt or more" that Imogene Stevens was guilty of manslaughter. Tiger-eyed Imogene, killer of 19-year-old Navy Seaman Albert Kovacs while she was "in an aura of sex recrimination, beer and window-smashing" (the coroner's report), was free...
Tabloid readers sighed with disappointment : they had been hoping to hear, in all its details and in several different versions, the story of what happened that June night in sedate New Canaan. Others, notably the family of Seaman Kovacs, had a more serious complaint. Imogene had said she fired in self-defense when Kovacs started to beat her. Kovacs' brother, who was sitting with him in a neighbor's house when Mrs. Stevens stormed in and told them to clear out, stuck to his story that she had fired without warning (TIME, July 9). Wasn...
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...
...long sea hours, Commodore Richard Valentine Morris brought along his wife, baby, and Negro maid Sal; to keep his crew happy, he let them bring their wives too. This domestically blissful squadron cruised leisurely about the Mediterranean, then settled down to a blockade of Tripoli. During the siege a seaman's wife on the flagship Chesapeake bore a child in the forecastle. When the Commodore's wife began expecting, Morris lifted the blockade and sailed off to Malta so that she could be delivered in style...
Missing in Action. Thomas William Lamont II, 20, seaman first class, son of Thomas S. Lament, vice president and director of J. P. Morgan & Co., Inc., grandson of famed Thomas W. Lamont, Morgan board chairman; on the overdue submarine Snook...