Word: sevier
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Without Authority. Against Berman was pitted Marine Major Charles Sevier, 35, the chief prosecuting officer, a veteran of Saipan, Tinian and Okinawa, who describes himself as "a plain, unspectacular guy trying to do a job." Sevier's case: Drill Instructor McKeon was not authorized to take Platoon 71 into the marshes; his action was therefore criminal, and the fact that he had been drinking made it worse. Said Sevier to newsmen: "I have the greatest sympathy for D.I.s. They have a terribly tough job. But damn it, we try to maintain excellent discipline without brutality...
Ploddingly, patiently, Sevier stitched his case together. Marine training regulations were entered in the record. A witness recited the tide tables. The court made a trip to the scene of the Ribbon Creek tragedy; Sergeant McKeon stood with his judges on the grassy bank, and stared expressionless into the dark water. Back in the steaming auditorium, survivors of Platoon 71 told of the death march. When he first joined Platoon 71, Private Earl Grabowski, 18, had been known as a crybaby; now, with manful calm, he told of the march, sparing neither McKeon, the platoon nor the Marine Corps. Said...
Though he made his only son, Bob Jr., president in 1941, crusty Bob Ingalls Sr.* continued his one-man rule, never let his son make much of a mark for himself. In 1948 Bob Jr. divorced his wife and married Jane Sevier Smith, a widow with two children. His father, a stern Presbyterian who did not believe in divorce, fired him from his $45,000-a-year...